7:30 p.m.
North Carolina 15 GS
Ohio 20 S
West Virginia 5 G
Expect a long. bloody night in Ohio, where dueling teams of Democratic and Republican lawyers have spent the past several weeks in court trying to squeeze some advantage out of the state's election rules. We may see lawsuits over polling hours, provisional ballots and challengers to voters--and that's if the state isn't that close. More imaginative legal theories will be trotted out if the final result can be overturned by what is expected to be a flood of provisional ballots. Meanwhile, North Carolina and West Virginia should go to Mr. Bush.
North Carolina Democrats have hopes of electing Erskine Bowles, who lost the 2002 Senate race to Elizabeth Dole, in the race to succeed Sen. John Edwards. A key North Carolina House race is in the far western 11th District, where Democrat Patsy Keever has a chance of an upset against GOP Rep. Charlie Taylor. Expect easy victories for GOP Sen. George Voinovich in Ohio, Democratic Gov. Mike Easley of North Carolina and Democrat Joe Manchin, who is running for governor of West Virginia.
By West Virginia
North Carolina 15 GS
Ohio 20 S
West Virginia 5 G
Expect a long. bloody night in Ohio, where dueling teams of Democratic and Republican lawyers have spent the past several weeks in court trying to squeeze some advantage out of the state's election rules. We may see lawsuits over polling hours, provisional ballots and challengers to voters--and that's if the state isn't that close. More imaginative legal theories will be trotted out if the final result can be overturned by what is expected to be a flood of provisional ballots. Meanwhile, North Carolina and West Virginia should go to Mr. Bush.
North Carolina Democrats have hopes of electing Erskine Bowles, who lost the 2002 Senate race to Elizabeth Dole, in the race to succeed Sen. John Edwards. A key North Carolina House race is in the far western 11th District, where Democrat Patsy Keever has a chance of an upset against GOP Rep. Charlie Taylor. Expect easy victories for GOP Sen. George Voinovich in Ohio, Democratic Gov. Mike Easley of North Carolina and Democrat Joe Manchin, who is running for governor of West Virginia.
By West Virginia
