Reports the Idaho Statesman:

Also, between March and August, Hall repeatedly followed the woman to restaurants, the movies and her home, and he ignored her repeated requests that he leave her alone, according to police and court records.

The victim testified Friday that Hall once followed her to a Walmart and took her car keys and would not return them until she agreed to “hear him out” concerning her marriage, the Idaho Falls Post Register reported.

Hall and his lawyer did not even try to pretend any of this didn’t happen in exactly the way she said it did, and now he is out of a job. And to top it off she did not, in fact, “hear him out,” so now what’s he supposed to do with all those condoms? Suppose he could always just masturbate and throw them on her lawn.

[Idaho Statesman]

We all know that the whole point of yesterday’s affair was to throw trash around the House office buildings and get arrested and maybe do meth at some point. Much of the trash, however, was from Dick Armey’s “astroturfing” organization, FreedomWorks, which pretends to give a shit about these angry wingnuts’ lives. Our Hill operative sent this picture and added, “our office just got teabagged with their lobbyist paid-for trash.” Many more offices suffered a similar fate, of a bunch of know-nothing jackasses trashing their offices with rich lobbyist Dick Armey’s fever dreams.

What ever happened to the good old days of lobbying, when things were polite! Some rich corporate fat cat would buy a congressman a Porsche, the congressman would vote for whatever, and America would win.

8:22 — Keith Olbermann is talking about the public option now that he has some “down time.” But the public option is not up for election tonight, SIR. SIR. Let’s watch CNN again, where the panel of 900 hungry hungry partisans are expected to battle-royale it out over a few cubes of raw sirloin.
8:28 — Back to Virginia: the Republican candidate for Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, and the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, “who gives a fuck,” have also won. It’s the Triple Crown of Virginia! Which state shall the new leadership declare war on first?
8:31 — A fellow on the CNN is giving a presentation on the findings of his OBAMETER, which keep track of which promises Obama has kept and which he has broken. Most news organizations put a 15-year-old intern in charge of this, what is commonly referred to as “sorting.”
8:33 — If you want to track the fortunes of gay marriage in Maine, here is a website! The early results suggest that it’ll be celebratory costume-disco party time in downtown Bangor all night long.
8:40 — The CNN panel is very liberal-biased. Mary Matalin and that other gal are the only two Republicans, alongside James Carville, Roland Martin, that lawyer from the New Yorker, Donna Brazile, and the two apolitical robots David Gergen and Candy Crowley. The only man who can make this panel exciting is, hypothetically, Lanny Davis, but he usually spends this part of the week in Honduras.
8:52 — Sorry that we are liveblogging at such a snail’s pace this hour. It’s the news, the news is moving at this very same snail’s pace!
8:53 — Oh now here is an actual potential piece of upcoming news. Your Wonkette has just received this brief alert from its favorite alliterative campaign office, Crist Communications:

Governor Crist to Appear on Fox News Channel Tonight at 11:04pm EST

Tallahassee – Governor Charlie Crist will discuss the 2009 and 2010 Elections tonight, Tuesday, November 3, 2009, during Fox News Channel’s Election Night coverage at 11:04 p.m. EST.

(An abridged episode of Amos & Andy will air from 11:00 to 11:03.) What will the gay Charlie Crist tell Fox News, after today’s events! Many pundits are saying that the empowered Teabaggers, after having (probably) conquered a deep-red congressional district in rural New York, will now try to kill Charlie Crist in his Senate race.

9:01 — Wolf Blitzer has an update before CNN turns over to Larry King! You can tell it is a slow election night if they turn things over to Larry King before the major races are called. You can also tell it is a slow election night when it is super freaking fucking obvious that it is a slow election night.
9:02 — New York polls are closed; nothing. Christie is beating Corzine by about 10 percentage points, with 20% of precincts reporting. Oh no, now there are 28% reporting, and the lead is down to six! John King is drawing neon green circles all over Virginia. “Does this prove…[X] ?” comes an infinite stream of rhetorical questions from the drawer John King.
9:07 — Now we are watching Rachel Maddow, the one tolerable and sometimes wonderful cable news personality! She was just talking about this comical story — OMG SHE WAS TALKING TO DAVE WEIGEL! — from NY-23:

“We just had a report that one of our pollsters in Clinton County just had their tires slashed,” Hoffman told reporters at his campaign office in Plattsburgh, N.Y. “So I think the Democrats are doing everything they possibly can to steal this election away from the 23rd District.” … Capt. Michael Branch of the Plattsburgh City Police Department said the incident wasn’t criminal mischief, but rather a tire-meets-bottle affair. “This was not a tire slashing—this was some guy who drove over a bottle and cut his tire,” Branch said.

Wish we had more time to get to know this Hoffman, whose lack of knowledge about everything and uncanny ability to follow Glenn Beck’s every order would’ve made for plenty of long-term campaign fodder.
9:19 — Okay now Rachel Maddow is talking about gay civil rights with a gay fellow which means that there is officially Nothing Happening. This seems like a good point to close Wonkette’s liveblogging coverage of the Hobbit-Sized 2009 Elections. Any further news will be written up in individual posts.

SUMMARY: Republicans took the governorship and other statewide races in Virginia, just like in the good ol’ days. The fat Chris Christie appears to be maintaining a solid lead over Jon Corzine (52% to 42%, last we checked), but it’s still too close to call, and more Democratic districts have yet to fully report. Glenn Beck’s wingnut bitch has not yet declared victory over the ACORN drone in NY-23. Gay people in Maine are still waiting to hear about whether they’ll be executed en masse, or not. Jonah Goldberg’s Wonkette-endorsed brother is talking shit all over Twitter, like the cock of the walk! Finally, PROPERTY TAXES IN NEW JERSEY ARE STILL OUTRAGEOUS! OUTRAGEOUS! RIGHT NOW THEY ARE SO HIGH!

Love,
America

HEY, is there a local election in your home town or state? Mayor or alderman or sheriff or whatever? Send us the results and we will post them. We heard rumors about some hot mayoral race in Tulsa, hmmhmm!

6:58 — Jeannie Moos is talking about a website with cartoon Barack Obamas and you can dress him in different outfits, depending on the weather. And then Barack Obama will give you the weather report? This is so in-depth, from Jeannie Moos. The website is Politico.com.
6:59 — Oh god if the Lou Dobbs show is actually going to run tonight, we may have to turn on terrible MSNBC. Lou Dobbs hints that there could be a repudiation of the Obama Agenda in “40 states.” There aren’t even that many states in Mexico, Lou Dobbs!
7:01 — VIRGINIA POLLS CLOSE.
7:01 — Wolf Blitzer just said, we have zero votes in from Virginia polls, and Bob McDonnell is leading! But they will not call it yet because they are journalists.
7:02 — Jessica “Hologram” Yellin is reporting from on the ground, in Virginia, and she brings with her a scoop! “How are people voting? It depends on who you talk to.” NO! It is either out of love or hate for Barack Obama, in Washington.
7:04 — Soledad O’Brien promises much reporting later on how Barack Obama failed.
7:05 — Oh now here is a nice lady on the ground in New Jersey. What do they care about there? It depends on who you talk to! Actually it doesn’t, it’s PROPERTY TAXES, COSMIC PROPERTY TAXES, PERIOD.
7:08 — Lou Dobbs: die. Let’s see what’s on the liberal MSNBC.
7:10 — It’s Chuck Todd in his role as “NBC Political Director,” just like old times, before he became another bad White House reporter.
7:11 — Chris Matthews! WHY DON’T PEOPLE LIKE OBAMA THEY HATE BUSH THEY’RE DIFFERENT WHAT IS THIS.
7:12 — Chris Matthews argues that Obama tried to rush too many massive reforms through at once, because the Netroots made him, and then he ran into the slow pace of Congress, and this pissed off the Netroots, who ergo refused to help Democrats this year, and so the Netroots are yet again to blame for everything wrong with America today.
7:14 — He adds (to paraphrase), “you can’t just ask Rahm Emanuel for pancakes and expect, what was it, pancakes, you can’t expect those pancakes the goddamn pancakes from Rahm.” Chuck Todd is chastised for laughing.
7:17 — McDonnell has a lead! Approximately 20,000 to 10,000. Matthews says yeah, that Donnell, O’Donnell, Nora O’Donnell, he’s gonna win this thing.
7:19 — Hey it’s Pat Buchanan? What party are you in nowadays Pat, Matthews asks. Buchanan responds that he votes for any ticket with a “Goebbels.” (Libertarian.)
7:21 — Pat Buchanan doesn’t blame this likely loss in Virginia on Obama! He will be fired from the media.
7:22 — Eliot Spitzer is guest-punditing! Remember that time he had sex? He’s so smart however.
7:23 — One very special candidate’s talking shit on Twitter, in our general direction:

“Jonah said he would eat me if I lose!” Good luck Joshua! WONKETTE ENDORSEMENT: JOSHUA J. GOLDBERG FOR NYC COUNCIL.

7:25 — Eliot Spitzer and Pat Buchanan were just fighting about whatever the script told them to fight about.
7:31 — Hardball Sideshow Segment, showing the wackiest political stories of the day, as though it were an afternoon at the circus! Topic: Sarah Palin is insane in this new way. Commercial break.
7:33 — We have not been analyzing why Creigh Deeds is getting his ass kicked so badly, because there are too many reasons. Bob McDonnell didn’t act like a lunatic and Creigh Deeds tried to paint him as a lunatic. Plus demographics and money and anti-incumbent atmosphere and lack of a strategy and the fact that one is named “Bob” and one is named “Creigh.”
7:41 — Be still, our beating heart, for there is an Eric Cantor on the television. He looks so chiseled when he lies.
7:42 — Chris Matthews really wants Eric Cantor to stop lying. “WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU LIAR.” Eric Cantor doesn’t need this divisiveness on television, Eric Cantor declares.
7:45 — Matthews to Cantor: “Is Virginia a Palin state? Sarah Palin is the worst person alive.” Eric Cantor doesn’t need to bring up partisan bickering and divisiveness on television, Eric Cantor declares, for tonight is a victorious night for Virginia!
7:58 — Look what happened while the editor was eating pizza and dirt from the floor: Bob McDonnell wins Virginia! Congratulations, Bob McDonnell! We hope that platform of cutting every tax and preserving every job and raising $7 trillion by selling off state liquor stores works.
8:01 — Keith Olbermann is now on television! “I hate this political entertainment host on a rival network who gets better ratings than I do,” Olbermann reports.
8:02 — NEW JERSEY POLLS HAVE CLOSED. It is too close to call between the fat man and the Goldman Sachs executive. Meanwhile PROPERTY TAXES ARE STILL THROUGH THE ROOF, JESUS.
8:06 — Let’s start a new thread, while Howard Fineman and Keith Olbermann discuss current political statistics.
8:17 — ****Go here now!****

“Brooke H.” went as “sexy Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” as if to imply that a “sexy” before the name “Ruth Bader Ginsburg” isn’t superfluous?

“Bryan K,” like so many others, went as a common confused racist. Much like “Brooke H.,” “Bryan K.” needs to do a better job decorating his house.

“Carl B.” dressed as a lie that Mark Sanford once told.

“Carolyn C.” and her boyfriend did the “other” Mark Sanford costume, of the governor and his Argentinian Firecracker, who famously had sex together this year.

“Genevieve”’s boyfriend went as the fictional teabagger “Cletus,” with lots of hair and a sign that includes the awesome phrase, “Jesus + stuff.”

“Kelsey G.” went as celebrated queen birther lawyer-dentist Orly Taitz, and even brought along Barack Obama’s actual real-life bird certificate.

“Lee H.” and his wife also went as racists! “Lee” adds, “my wife really is 8 1/2 months pregnant.” Chug that High Life, pregnant wife lady!

“Michael L.” just went insane and looks to be having a great time.

“Randy C.” presumably carried around this sign, covered in his buddies’ pubes.

“Sara B.” went as Bo, the Mexican water dog that Barack Obama stole from Ted Kennedy on his death bed.

Sorry if we forgot any!