# 2014 US General Election Results **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 4, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684 "2014-11-04T23:38:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/61 "2014-11-05T02:01:36Z")
Reps win the South Dakota senate seat. Dems win in Michigan. MSNBC has Sheehan winning in NH. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/62 "2014-11-05T02:02:22Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > How can that be? After all, Georgia has Voter ID, which (according to this place) is axiomatically tied to lessened minority turnout. If I weigh you one day and you have 1 pound shoes on, and I weigh you a second day and you have 3 pound shoes on, you can weigh more and still have lost weight. Similarly, if you try to suppress minority turnout, and it pisses them off, you might get more turnout than if you did nothing. #themoreyouknow ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/63 "2014-11-05T02:03:19Z")
MSNBC is calling New Hampshire for Jean Shaheen-D. Maybe Scott Brown can try again in Maine. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/64 "2014-11-05T02:04:41Z")
9pm EST, so the polls have closed everywhere except Iowa, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and the five Pacific states. Don’t stay up until the polls close in Alaska, unless that’s where you live. Their Senate race may not be settled for days. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/65 "2014-11-05T02:04:45Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > Governors: Bentley in AL… TN GOP guy wins. Wolf beats Corbett in PA. Everyone here in PA know that Corbett was toast. Still, I’m relieved. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/66 "2014-11-05T02:04:51Z")
Polls closed just a few minutes ago in Arkansas. CNN is predicting David Pryor lost his Senate seat to Tom Cotton. I hope they are wrong. How many more moderates in either party can we afford to lose? ☹ Somebody has to stand in the middle and support bipartisan legislation. At this rate there won’t be any moderates in the Senate. I’ll wait to see what the local news reports. Right now they just barely started counting votes. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/67 "2014-11-05T02:05:21Z")
New Rep governor in TX. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/68 "2014-11-05T02:05:36Z")
Hell, Brown could try Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island too. Maybe he can get all his campaigning done at once by going to the Big E in MA. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/69 "2014-11-05T02:10:35Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > New Rep governor in TX. No surprise; Abbott had crushed Davis in almost every poll leading up to the election. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/70 "2014-11-05T02:10:43Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Polls closed just a few minutes ago in Arkansas. CNN is predicting David Pryor lost his Senate seat to Tom Cotton. I hope they are wrong. How many more moderates in either party can we afford to lose? ☹ Somebody has to stand in the middle and support bipartisan legislation. At this rate there won’t be any moderates in the Senate. > > I’ll wait to see what the local news reports. Right now they just barely started counting votes. Pryor out, Cotton in. GOP +3 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/71 "2014-11-05T02:10:49Z")
I see CNN has projected Asa Hutchinson as the next Rep Ark Governor. I’m not surprised. He advertised heavily and outspent Mike Ross. ---
**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/72 "2014-11-05T02:11:57Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Hell, Brown could try Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island too. Maybe he can get all his campaigning done at once by going to the Big E in MA. Oh yeah, send him to RI. We could use the ad money. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/73 "2014-11-05T02:14:14Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I still have a hard time seeing Gillespie winning. Northern Virginia always seems to report late, most famously so in 2012 in which Virginia was called decisively for Obama around midnight. I used to live in northern Virginia. This happens often; the Republican candidate looks about to win, but then suddenly northern Virginia’s votes are counted, and the Republican gets crushed in the vote tally. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/74 "2014-11-05T02:15:55Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Pryor out, Cotton in. > > GOP +3 Cotton and Capito; who’s the 3rd gain? McConnell was an incumbent. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/75 "2014-11-05T02:16:17Z")
Send Brown here to Hawaii. Nothing like wan high makamaka haole wit’ one truck fo’ get da vote out. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/76 "2014-11-05T02:17:15Z")
> [@WreckingCrew](#): > > Oh yeah, send him to RI. We could use the ad money. Do you really want to deal with months of that, though? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/77 "2014-11-05T02:17:31Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > No surprise; Abbott had crushed Davis in almost every poll leading up to the election. Some surprise to BrainGlutton, who gave a rolleyes: > [@Wendy Davis for Governor of Texas?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wendy-davis-for-governor-of-texas/662685/31): > > Who, [Greg “10 Commandments” Abbott](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Orden_v._Perry)? Yeah, I guess it’s his if he wants it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/78 "2014-11-05T02:20:02Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Cotton and Capito; who’s the 3rd gain? > > McConnell was an incumbent. South Dakota, Arkansas, and West Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/79 "2014-11-05T02:21:27Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > South Dakota, Arkansas, and West Virginia. Ah, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/80 "2014-11-05T02:21:35Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Cotton and Capito; who’s the 3rd gain? South Dakota, whoever the hell the Senator from South Dakota is about to be. And apparently Republicans (like **Bricker** ) have no more idea than I do who the hell he is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684.md?page=5)