U.S. Senate John McCain has won re-election tonight by a wide margin. After surviving a “tea party” challenge in the Republican primary in August, McCain has lead Democrat Rodney Glassman by a wide margin. Libertarian Party founder David Nolan is also seeking that seat and […]
Independent Eliot Cutler’s lead in the Maine gubernatorial race has been steadily shrinking as the night has gone on. With just over 15% of the votes reporting, Cutler has fallen to 40%, leading Republican Paul LePage, who has 32%. The Democrat and several other independents trailed well […]
Libertarian candidate Richard W. Shuey is currently polling 31.5% of the vote in a two-way race for Texas State House of Representatives. He trails Democrat J.M. Lozano, who has 68.5%. Many votes remain to be counted in this district, but it is an encouraging showing […]
Rand Paul isn’t the only member of the Paul family celebrating a victory tonight. His father, Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, was re-elected by a wide margin. The elder Paul, a two-time Presidential candidate, has captured nearly 79% of the vote according to early results. […]
With more than a third of states finished with voting, exit polls and early returns indicate that the Republican Party will recapture control of the U.S. House of Representatives by a comfortable margin. CNN is currently projecting a minimum of 50 pick-ups for the GOP, […]
Independent Eliot Cutler has taken a very early lead in the governor’s race in Maine. With just over 3% of the votes reporting, Cutler has 42%, or 4,273 votes. In second is Republican Paul LePage with 30%, 2,982 votes. The Democrat and several other independents […]
Tom Clements, South Carolina’s Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, must be sorely disappointed by the early returns from that race. After Democrat Alvin Greene’s shocking victory in the primary, many Greens had hoped that their nominee would be able to outpoll the major party’s […]
With early polling showing Libertarian gubernatorial candidate John Monds near or just barely breaking into double-digits, some Georgia Libertarians had latched onto the notion that achieving so-called “major party” status would be possible. To acquire major party status in Georgia, Monds would have to capture 20% of […]
Most major media outlets have now called the U.S. Senate race for Republican Marco Rubio. Independent Charlie Crist is running a solid second, leading Democratic nominee Kendrick Meek 29% to 19% at the moment. The Republican Party of Florida’s Chairman, State Senator John Thrasher, has released […]
The Florida TEA Party is struggling in early results. Republicans in Florida’s 8th congressional district worried that TEA candidate Peg Dunmire, who had spent a significant amount of her own funds on her campaign, would derail their hopes of unseating combative freshman Democratic U.S. Rep. […]
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