Burnt Orange Report

Results Tonight- Updating

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

In an hour the polls will be closed. Results should start flowing in here, here, or here. A number of counties are using punch cards so that may slow things down some, others are using optical scan. There are no Diebold machines in this district for this election.

Texans, it's about inspiration tonight. We've already won but let's see if we pick up a Congressional Seat while we are at it. You also have 2285 reasons to be proud.

I'll be sitting on the Swing State Project tonight as well for updates. Bless the Ohio-2 blog, it's bandwidth went overboard earlier today and is now dead.

UPDATE:

Here is an interactive visual. Then go compare these and ANY numbers to what the final numbers were in the last Republican blowout election in this district last fall at CNN.

Absentee Ballots in from Hamilton.
Absentee Ballots in from Brown. Hackett wins Brown absentee 53-47!

UPDATE

Brown has now counted more ballots, Hackett extends lead to 56%-43%!

New better soure for total results is now Channel Cincinnati.

Paul Hackett (D) 6,562 51%
Jean Schmidt (R) 6,276 49%

This isn't supposed to happen folks. 7% Reporting. A lot of this absentee.

UPDATE

WCPO now ahead of the other sources in reporting.

US HOUSE Ohio 2nd Dist
175 precincts of 753 reporting (23% Reporting)
PAUL HACKETT 13,512 51%
JEAN SCHMIDT 12,802 49%

UPDATE:

Looks like Brown is done counting though their numbers don't seem to be reflected correctly on some other aggregate pages. Final Brown County (was 72% Republican in Portman's 04 race) with 24% county turnout...

PAUL HACKETT (DEM) . . . . . . . 3,950 55.92
JEAN SCHMIDT (REP) . . . . . . . 3,100 43.88

UPDATE

Moving to Extended Entry. MyDD posts the counties weight vote wise for the overall district.

I almost can't believe it right now. Though Brown updated their vote totals some above, Other counties are now coming out with initial numbers here (I know it's slow loading). Moving to extended entry.

Clermont County:

Schmidt: 1,158 votes (61%)
Hackett: 750 votes (39%)

0% of precincts reporting
absentee ballots reporting

Hamilton County:

Schmidt: 8,859 votes (48%)
Hackett: 9,475 votes (52%)
123 out of 342 precincts reporting

Warren County:

Schmidt: 4,608 votes (57%)
Hackett: 3,523 votes (43%)
61 of 89 precincts reporting

Brown County:

Schmidt: 1,692 votes (43%)
Hackett: 2,279 votes (57%)

100% of precincts reporting

Pike County:

Schmidt: 611 votes (39%)
Hackett: 965 votes (61%)

12 of 24 precincts reporting

Adams County:

Schmidt: 944 votes (42%)
Hackett: 1,298 votes (58%)

12 of 35 precincts reporting

Scioto County:

Schmidt: 1,213 votes (34%)
Hackett: 2,379 votes (66%)

50 out of 70 precincts reporting

UPDATE

Turnout higher than expected reports Mydd. Clermont results coming in, found here. Need to limit damage in this county. 100 of 191 Precincts Reporting.

JEAN SCHMIDT 7869 56.24%
PAUL HACKETT 6099 43.59%

Overall viw WCPO...

580 precincts of 753 reporting
JEAN SCHMIDT 45,134 52%
PAUL HACKETT 42,342 48%

UPDATE

Looks like we are going to close out the night by less than 1000 votes down, meaning automatic recount. Though by any any all pre-forcasted standards, this was an absolute blow to the GOP, Jerome suggests to gather any info about possibly irregularities for the automatic recount. Hell, we don't need to win it to have won, but it sure would be nice to.

91 precints remaining in Clermont (which broke for Schmidt but is down 21 points from the last Congressional election there)

DEM - PAUL HACKETT 48811 49.56%
REP - JEAN SCHMIDT 49681 50.44%

UPDATE:

Doesn't look like there will be a recount for sure, and heck, I don't think I could stand to go through with one. Let's use the narrative we have, not get embroiled in a recount. There is no way the Republicans can say they won tonight on every level except one. Because they didn't gain a seat. They lost tens of percentage point, credibility, and soon the spin war.

Are we ready for 2006 Texas?