[UPDATE 7:52 a.m.] Very early this morning, Kathy Hochul released a statement congratulating Chris Collins on his victory in the 27th Congressional District. In her statement, she said that she’s “volunteered to help him make a smooth transition in January to ensure our constituents are well-served.
[UPDATE 11:50 p.m.] The Buffalo News reports that, with 515 of 624 precincts reporting, Republican Chris Collins leads incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul in the 27th Congressional District race. The margin, however, is slim. Collins has 51 percent of the reported vote while Hochul has 49 percent. Those margins were the same in the small part of the district that’s in Monroe County.
The district spans several counties and the rest of the poll results may not be available before the morning.
[UPDATE 11:20 p.m.] PBS and NBC are projecting that Obama will get the 270 electoral votes he needs to win the presidency.
[UPDATE 11:12 p.m.] Monroe County is Obama country.
It was pretty much a given that President Barack Obama, a Democrat, was going to win New York, and that he did. And in Monroe County, he received approximate 58 percent of the vote. Republican Mitt Romney received 40 percent of the vote. Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson was the only third-party candidate to receive more than 1 percent of Monroe County’s vote.
Media outlets across the state called the US Senate race in incumbent Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand’s favor early on. She faced a challenge from Republican Wendy Long. Gillibrand won Monroe County with 66 percent of the vote. Long received 32 percent of the vote while the three third-party candidates got less than 1 percent each.
[UPDATE 11:10 p.m.] Incumbent Democrat Harry Bronson had a solid victory over his Republican challenger, Peterson Vazquez.
Bronson received 63 percent of the vote, while Vazquez received 37 percent.
[UPDATE 10:55 p.m.] Democrat Ted O’Brien has come out on top in the race for the state Senate’s 55th District seat.
O’Brien and Republican Sean Hanna were running for the open seat; it was previously held by Republican Jim Alesi, who decided not to seek reelection. The race was a contentious one and from the early stages of the campaign O’Brien was the target of untruthful attack ads from an anonymous group.
The race drew statewide interest because it has implications for which party controls the state Senate. That question isn’t settled yet, but O’Brien’s victory does flip a Republican seat to a Democratic seat.
O’Brien received approximately 64,800 votes to the approximately 59,900 votes Hanna received, according to unofficial results from the Monroe County Board of Elections and the Ontario County Board of Elections.
[UPDATE 10:36 p.m.] Incumbent Democrat Louise Slaughter has defeated Republican challenger Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks in the race for the 25th Congressional District, according to unofficial results from the Monroe County Board of Elections.
The race attracted a lot of attention and a lot of soft money, including a last-minute, $1.3 million ad buy from a Karl Rove-connected group for Brooks.
The race went negative early, with Slaughter’s camp firing the first salvo. But Brooks’ supporters were particularly nasty, taking digs at Slaughter’s age — she’s 83 — and appearance.
Slaughter, a native of Kentucky, returns for a 14th term in Congress, while Brooks has three years left as county executive before term limits kick in.
[UPDATE 10:25 p.m.] Republicans in the County Legislature increased their majority by one member tonight. Joe Carbone unseated Stephanie Aldersley, the Democrat who was appointed to a vacant seat earlier this year.
The race was close, which is not a surprise since Carbone came close to beating Democrat Vinnie Esposito, who held the seat before Aldersley, in the 2011 elections. Esposito resigned this year to take a job with the state.
Aldersley served 10 years in the Legislature prior to Esposito’s tenure.
Carbone’s victory brings the Republican majority one vote closer to a two-thirds majority. That’s important in terms of county borrowing, which requires support from two-thirds of the legislators, or 20 out of 29 votes. When Carbone takes office the Republican majority will have 19 members.
At the polls, Carbone led with 52 percent of the vote and Aldersley received 48 percent, according to unofficial results from the county Board of Elections.
[ORIGINAL POST] The big day at last.
We City folk are watching the presidential race closely, of
course. Some pundits are already predicting four more years of gridlock no
matter who wins, but that may depend on who ends up controlling the House and
Senate.
The Slaughter-Brooks Congressional contest is another big
one. The smart money is on Slaughter, but you haven’t seen the last of Brooks. This
strident campaign — on both sides — has dinged Brooks’ once impenetrable
popularity, but she’s still a very viable candidate. She’s term-limited as
county executive, but we’re betting she runs again for state or federal office.
Oh, God. Can the Hanna-O’Brien State Senate race just be
over? What an ugly, embarrassing race this has been, mostly due to the pro-Hanna
outside interest groups. Seriously, we have no idea how this race will play
out. The last poll, which showed O’Brien up by 10 points, was a shock.
Control of the State Senate is up in the air and could go
either way.
We’ll have reaction to the election results after the polls
close at 9 p.m. today, with more coverage and analysis to follow on Wednesday
morning.
This article appears in Oct 31 – Nov 6, 2012.
May Almighty God have mercy our great country, whose foolish and ungrateful population has given this wicked man another chance to humiliate America and reduce her to a third-world socialist backwater.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Let us humbly beg God it is not finally too late.
j.a.m – Democracy’s a bitch when your candidate loses, isn’t it ?
I’d like to thank you and your fellow Tea Party types for dragging the GOP and Richy Rich Romney so far to the lunatic fringe that Obama could win in a walk.
Now I wonder what we socialist Muslims should do first? Institute Sharia law? Nationalize McDonalds? Establish Obamacare death panels for pets? Plan a military coup to ensure a third term? The possibilities are endless !!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!
And may Allah have mercy on YOUR soul !
May our Almighty God have mercy our great cause, because a foolish and ungrateful population has given this wicked man another chance to humiliate Christian Jihadism and ridicule our obsession as the whacked out, intolerant and lunatic religious mania it is.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Let us humbly beg for someone to prove that God exists so that our self righteousness doesn’t appear so obviously egotism. Amen.
@Chaim: You can’t call it democracy when 47% of the population just wants free stuff (and another 3-4% just wants to know where you get the free stuff).
j.a.m. – As an FYI, Romney’s “47% ” included those receiving their own money back via Social Security and those receiving various forms of veterans’ benefits. Oh, and most of them live in Red States.
And you’re saying that it isn’t “democracy” when someone votes for a candidate who supports programs that they believe in? So I guess you only vote for candidates who’s views you oppose. How “democratic” of you !
Obama, representing the party of the super-rich, carried eight of the ten richest U.S. counties, by margins up to 74%.
There you have the contemporary elitist Democrat party: The super-rich who don’t care or even know what they pay in taxes, plus the millions they keep poor and stupid to provide a reliable source of votes.
j.a.m. – Remember this quote…?
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what….These are people who pay no income tax. … [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” – Mitt Romney
QUESTION – Which states have the highest percentage of non-income tax paying individuals ?
ANSWER – ID, NM, TX, AR. LA. MS. AL, GA, SC, FL .
QUESTION – Which of these states did Romney carry?
ANSWER – ID, TX, AR, LA, MS, AL, GA, SC
Welcome to reality.
Chaim, you’re on a roll. It’s been a pleasure reading your sharp observations. Makes you wonder why a member of the Deranged Right would still be posting such infantile drivel on a locally well-known liberal/left site; one had to conclude it’s for attention-seeking. Still, shooting these endless fish in a barrel does have its pleasures. I’m delighted with Karl Rove’s meltdown on Fox, for instance. Recall all year and up to only hours ago from the right: “This is the most important election since (fill in),” “There is a clear choice.” And now the backtracking in what really is a significant election. Or the right’s denigrating the popular vote versus (over 50% again, though) versus the Electoral vote (which was a blow-out), this from the same crowd who 12 years ago barked, “get over it” and then pursued a hard-right agenda, headed by the Ones Who Cannot Be Named. I wonder how that right wing poster who wrote here just a year ago, “Say hello ‘President Perry’ ” . . . yeah, how’s that workin’ out for ya?