Joe Lieberman (McCainiac-Conn.) told Glen Beck's radio show that he fears a Democratic super-majority.

Lieberman was asked on the Glenn Beck radio show whether he agreed with GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) that “if we don’t at least have the firewall of the filibuster in the Senate, that in many ways America will not survive.”

“Well, I hope it’s not like that, but I fear,” Lieberman responded.

Hatch, in an earlier appearance on Fox News, had said: “If we don’t have the right to utilize that filibuster rule and force the Democrats to have to get 60 votes, you’re going to get some of the worst legislation in the history of the country.”

Lieberman touted the filibuster rule.

“[I]t was really put there, a 60-vote requirement, as somebody said to me when I first came to the Senate, to stop the passions of a moment among the people of America from sweeping across the Congress, the House, to the Senate and to a likeminded president and having us do things that will change America for a long time,” Lieberman said. “So the filibuster is one of the great protections we have.”

With the Democrats picking up at least four senate seats, Lieberman will no longer have the pivotal role he's played for the past two years. Does that make it more or less likely that he'll switch teams?

My guess:

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As of the State's 9:36 update, McCain is up by a couple thousand votes with 70+% reporting. Mil-absentee ballots could put him over the top.

Wasn't VA supposed to be in the bag for Obama?

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 06:46 PM | Comments (43)
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They seem to mean it this time.

Shit.

Heavy drinking is the order of the evening and the next 4 years. McCain's spokeswoman is basically throwing in the towel on FNC. Don't beat her up, what's she supposed to say at this point? "We're winning California"?

Now I know why Megyn didn't wear the glasses...she didn't want to ruin them by associating them with tonight. She's as clever as she is lovely.

Posted by: DrewM at 06:22 PM | Comments (417)
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(No, Open Blog isn't open. Ace can delete this or ban me or whatever.)

If you haven't voted, or know anyone who hasn't voted, go do so. Ignore the freaking out. Nothing is done until all polls close and actual tallies come in. They haven't.

Half of the left's strategy has been to force a rout. Don't abandon your post. Get out there.

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Other states also show him lagging the polls, but not to that extent. In Florida, it's around 4%.

Explaining that WPEs in PA still showed Obama comfortably ahead. Supposedly, the tallies from the counties where they've gotten actual votes are close enough to exit polls that they think they can call it... with a 1 in 250 chance of being outside-the-margin-of-error wrong.

WPEs: Are "Within precinct error." It's the comparison between exit polls in polled precincts to actual votes.

Posted by: Ace at 05:56 PM | Comments (169)
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Bit of humor.

Posted by: Ace at 05:23 PM | Comments (5)
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The troll would be commenting. If I hadn't banned his ass.

No surprise, McCain didn't have a hold here.

UPDATE: the early calls on PA are exit poll bullshit, no precincts reporting.

Don't hang a hat on exit polls.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 05:15 PM | Comments (35)
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On Fox.

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Eh, I remember Florida being called early by NBC eight years ago, too.

ABC News calls it for Obama too.

No Actual Votes in yet in PA... Barone just urged caution on that, and yet FoxNews now also calls it for Obama.

*no precincts... just exit poll stuff? [DiT]

Posted by: Ace at 05:24 PM | Comments (337)
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<a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjZmMWFiNWI2Mzk0YTlmZjlhODIwZDM1ZTZlMDkyOTU=">So they say.</a>

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