WLKY is the only station in town that refuses, on moral grounds, to broadcast statewide results before the polls close. Station management around here doesn’t like what the other guys are doing. However, looks like Jefferson County results are coming in fast and furious.
6:54: First peak at King-Holton, with 37 percent reporting. Dead even. I need a video monitor.
6:55: Yarmuth is coasting, 57-43, with 42% in. Anne’s toast.
7:00 — We’re on the air. McCain’s only up 52-47. Why does WLKY go with Indiana first? Half the votes in, and Doug Hawkins in getting killed by Perry Clark, 58-42. Guess those know-it-alls out in southwest Jeff Co. were wrong.
7:03 — CBS says McCain wins Kentucky Shock, surprise. In District 26, Brent Ackerson has a big start. Mitch Daniels wins it in Indiana.
7:05 — Alcock looks lonely at the Republican party. It’s early.
Read more minute-by-minute after the jump:
7:07: Joni Jenkins on the air. She’s confident for Lunsford. He’s tied right now.
7:09 — With 60 percenet in, Abramson is up 55-45 over Jim Shake. And Katie goes up 51-49 over Holton, 60% in. Going down to the wire.
7:10 — We have a guest in studio. IUSE poli sci prof Joe Wert. Says it’s going to close for president in there. Tim Shaugnessy is way up. 74% in and Doug Hawkins is done. West won’t predict who will win in Indiana.
7:13: There’s Jake. On the TeeVee. Looks nerdy, but smart.
7:15 — Anne’s already there at the Rep. party. Must have an early bed time. Show knows.
7:17 — My network affiliate debut. Hawkins is losing. Katie King’s dead even. Breaking story with the anti-fairness flyer in District 26.
7:28 — Metro Council update - Bob Henderson is ahead, but with only 35 percent of the vote. Once again, indies Norman Pepper and Jennifer Wood are taking away the anti-Henderson vote. How does she get 13 percent. Seriously. Ackerson is up early, but there’s a long way to go.
7:31 – I wish Petchenik would ask Jennifer Moore about those mailings that told people to go to the wrong location. Softball questions. Says she’ss hopeful about Lunsford chances. It’s still close.
7:33 – alcock has Scott Jennings on. I’ll try to be nice. Says Mitch is in good shape. Let’s hope not. $40 million on the Senate race. Jobs pays $200K. Wacky.
7:43 — Early night for Northup. She’ll concede by 8. Alcock is spinning that Erwin Roberts story.
7:46 — 74% in, Katie leads 52-48. Yarmuth is getting ready to pop the champagne.
7:51 — I asked Haygood about the political ads. Candidates stayed on the air right up to the last minute.
7:52 — Stay with us after 8, when the main broadcast goes off the air. Shout-out to Page One, Yarmuth got a call from Anne. That had to be pleasant. Petchenik has Jack Conway on camera talking up Yarmuth.
7:55 — Bruce is still even with Mitch, 29% in.
7:56 –It’s over for Anne.Margin is 58-42. What a B.. She’s talking about McConnell winning, as if it’s already over. I’m not buying her story that she stepped in to run to help the Party. Seh’s still campaigning. Give me a break on the bridge. You’re wrong, Anne. Thanks to 32 for cutting away.
7:59 — Congrats to Brent Ackerson. We hear WHAS is showing dated numbers in the Senate race.W’eve got more than 270,000 votes for each candidate, double what they’ve got. We’re off the air. On the Web.
8:02 — Metro Council, you’ve got at least two more years of Doug Hawkins. Perry Clark is the winner, 57-43. Not even close. I won’t list all the people who told me that would be the upset.
8:13 — Jake on the Internets crediting young people for Yarmuth surpassing poll predictions. Maybe not so much for Bruce, who has some work to do. Yarmuth ready to speak.
8:14 — Two changes in J-town. David Olshansky is not the J-town City Council member I would have replaced, but that’s what voters did. RAY PERKINS is a winner — must be all that V.V. advertising. Pam Ware finishes eighth and joines the Council. Top vote-getter is KayAckerson, our personal favorite and the Mayor’s top nemesis.
8:29 — Wow! I just got off the phone with Bob Hueglin, who trails Bob Henderson by about 200 votes with 80 percent of the votes counted. “If they hadn’t been in it I’ve have had this wrapped this thing up an hour ago.” He’s referring to all the votes (31%) that independents Norman Pepper and Jennifer Wood got. Hueglin’s holding out hope, but it looks like Hnederson could win another four years with just 35 percent of the vote. Crazy.
8:38 – Get used to it. Katie King is up 5,000 votes with 89% of the vote in. I guess she’ll be calling in sick tomorrow.
8:40 — Dr. Wert is on to the same point Jake was making. Cell phones are screwing up poll numbers since polling companies can’t call cell phones. This will be a big issue in future elections. Young people, and people like me, don’t have home phones. Let me tell you, you don’t miss much by not having one.
8:45 — It really looks like it’ll take a miracle for McCain.
8:47 — Evidence that a certain type of campaigning doesn’t work — Doug Hawkins, Dwight Witten, Bob Hueglin.
9:10 — Gone to do a segment with Van Hoose. Are you watching coverage at WLKY.com? Talked about how the Internet is changing elections. Henderson’s win in District 14 and Metro Council’s balance of power, now 16-10 Dems.
9:18 — On CBS, Bob Schieffer says it’s impossible for McCain to win now. Ohio and Pennsylvania are in. Obama leads in Florida and Colorado.
9:26 – Alcock reporting that McConnell’s getting ready to speak, close to victory. At the Dem HQ,Tim Longmeyer still sounding optimistic. “Sen. McConnell is sweating bullets now.”
9:55 — All over but the concession speech for Lunsford. So close.
10:00 — Mitch acceptance speech. Good line. “The most wonderful feeling in the world is to be shot at and missed.”
10:29 — Let’s wrap this up. Big winners were John Yarmuth, Mitch McConnell in the big races — also a big night for Katie King, Brent Ackerson, Bob Henderson and Perry Clark. We’ll see you tomorrow, when we’ll have a new president-elect.
27 responses so far ↓
1 ouch // Nov 4, 2008 at 7:20 pm
jake’s making rick and vicki look bad. yikes. are they drinking? what’s with the horrible coverage?
2 Crutnacker // Nov 4, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Rick, you need an applebox next to Mr. VanHooshhhh
3 Crutnacker // Nov 4, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Katie King? How in the world…..
4 ouch // Nov 4, 2008 at 7:23 pm
great job rick….REDDING that is….wow, you and Jake make LKY look like the schleps they are….nice work for you guys
5 David Harpe // Nov 4, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Rick! You guys look good! I guess on TV they call you guys “annalist”s:
http://www.daveharpe.com/public/annalist.jpg
:-)
6 Crutnacker // Nov 4, 2008 at 7:40 pm
My wife got tired of the coverage. We’re now watching Dexter on Showtime. Keeping my fingers crossed about Lunsford.
7 ToddSmith // Nov 4, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Vicki keeps slurring her words. What gives?
8 ouch // Nov 4, 2008 at 7:44 pm
my God, like them both but Rick and Vicki are a mess. Their timing is off big time.
9 Gordon // Nov 4, 2008 at 7:58 pm
The Katie King thing may be coming out of a lot of young folks voting. My 23 year old daughter voted for her because of her age, in spite of the problems she has had.
10 ToddSmith // Nov 4, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Gordon-
My thoughts exactly. How can anyone informed vote for her?
11 Gordon // Nov 4, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Todd, I have no idea! Fox has called the Senate race for McConnell. I would be hesitant to believe that yet, still very close!
12 Gordon // Nov 4, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Rick, did you see John Boel around?
13 Crutnacker // Nov 4, 2008 at 9:33 pm
John Boel is going to get a post election interview with Anne Northup at KT’s.
14 Crutnacker // Nov 4, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Is it just me or does Doug Hawkins look like a miserable bastard in his campaign photos? His slogan should be “Vote for me or I’ll kick a puppy.”
15 bill // Nov 4, 2008 at 9:43 pm
very few numbers on wlky.com wave3.com much better
16 Newshound // Nov 4, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Fox41 numbers are so far behind, maybe they should have shown reruns of Raymond tonight or just don’t show local numbers.
17 joethecitizen // Nov 4, 2008 at 10:31 pm
JCTA commercials make me want to puke.
18 Reader // Nov 4, 2008 at 10:49 pm
http://www.whas11.com/video/?nvid=57426&live=yes&noad=yes
Listen to this. I was watching the CW 10 pm news live online. After the newscast, the streaming went black but the audio is still live. The producer or whoever at WHAS11 is pissed that they just announced Obama won VA - they are watching Fox News. “Shit!” and a lot of “oh no’s”!!!!
19 Reader // Nov 4, 2008 at 10:55 pm
OH!!! It is Monty!!!! He is the live person! He just answered his phone “Weather” and was talking to “Lacy” about the weather opening graphics! Funny!!!
20 Crutnacker // Nov 4, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Guess Monty makes over $250,000. :)
21 Chuck // Nov 5, 2008 at 1:43 am
Shows that the Louisville electorate is obviously pretty stupid when the facts are that over half of the voters selected someone with issues to be a judge. Nice job Louisville. You will be proud and happily rewarded in seeing incompetence in action. Its the way this town runs from the business community to the government. Lovely
22 Crutnacker // Nov 5, 2008 at 7:48 am
Honestly, how many people even read something before they check those judge names?
Sad, but the reality we live in.
23 Crutnacker // Nov 5, 2008 at 7:49 am
Did anyone else have Larry Hujo’s campaigners dangerously close to their polling place?
Did you scratch your head and say, “why so much effort for a job that pays next to nothing?”
But then, I couldn’t support his opponent either.
24 David Harpe // Nov 5, 2008 at 9:58 am
All you can really hope at this point is that she will get tossed in a couple of years due to judicial misconduct. With her track record that shouldn’t be hard for her to pull off…and lots of people will be watching.
25 Megan // Nov 5, 2008 at 10:02 am
Crutnacker, I saw Larry Hujo campaigners really close to where I voted and several other places yesterday. I was wondering what the laws are regarding that.
26 Another DB // Nov 5, 2008 at 10:27 am
Now that the election is over and no doubt lingers as to whom the American people want as their President it is time to look past our divisions and find areas which we can agree. So in hopes of unifying us all, here is the Top Ten List of Why an Obama/Biden Administration will be great!
# 10 With Barack’s basketball prowess and Biden’s height, we will be able to kick the tail of any other nation’s executive round-ball team in two-on-two twenty-one.
# 9 For once in my life our President will not be old enough to have skin so wrinkled it looks like a road map of Vermont.
# 8 Presidential portrait artist will finally get a chance to use the tube of brown paint that’s been hidden away in the supply box for the past two-hundred and thirty-three years.
# 7 Joe the Plumber, Tito the Builder, Lisa the Teacher, Mack the Knife, Conan the Destroyer and all the other sudden celebrity middle-class pundits will mercifully fade back into obscurity
# 6 George Bush can at last have his revenge on the incoming Democrats by removing all the “O’s” and “B’s” from the computer keyboards in the White House.
# 5 Goodbye finally and forever to Bill Clinton. No more B.C. in D.C.! (Sincere Thanks Obama)
# 4 When Biden gaffes and Obama smacks him back into line it will be refreshing to hear a rich white politician complain, “The Man is keeping me down.”
# 3 Michelle Obama becoming the first black, “First Lady,” means Sarah Palin is free to pursue a TV career and become the first white Oprah.
# 2 Republicans have to wait four more years before the next election to dig up dirt on William Ayers, Rashid Khalidi, Reverend Wright and Tony Rezko and get the vote out for Palin in 2012. Go Sarah…you betcha!
And the number One reason an Obama/Biden Administration will be great….
# 1 We can say goodbye to all the vitriolic emails circulating around the globe about Obama and McCain and get back to those endearing messages which concern not only our lack of length, but girth as well.
27 Reader // Nov 5, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I noticed Hujo folks at 4 different locations, armed with lawn chairs and signs by the drives/entrances.
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