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Montana Kaimin, November 8, 2006 Students of the Niu Versity of Montana, Missoula University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 11-8-2006 Montana Kaimin, November 8, 2006 Students of The niU versity of Montana, Missoula Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Students of The nivU ersity of Montana, Missoula, "Montana Kaimin, November 8, 2006" (2006). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 4955. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/4955 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ¤ UM’S INDEPENDENT Weather CAMPUS NEWSPAPER MONTANA Sunny 57F SINCE 1898 Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Volume CIX, Issue 39 Minimum K AIMIN Electoral Wage woes slow More money, same crappy jobs vote totals ZACH FRANZ & SEAN BRESLIN Page 4 MONTANA KAIMIN Letters Election Day came and went without a clear winner in from a Montana’s hotly contested Senate race, as a high voter turnout and Thin-Walled problems with new voting equip- ment delayed the final tally. Apartment When Democratic challenger Jon Tester and Republican incum- bent Conrad Burns called it a night around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Page 2 Tester maintained a narrow lead, but Burns was closing the gap. The outcome remained uncer- Marijuana tain because of hold-ups in three Hugh Carey/Montana Kaimin key counties. In Gallatin County, a larger- than-expected number of voters kept election officials up late. Voters pipe up Although the polling places tech- nically were to close at 8 p.m., the for pot initiative rules say that anyone in line at that time can still vote. In Bozeman, that line was long. Hundreds of people were still Page 8 waiting to vote at the scheduled poll-closing time, the Associated Press reported. The last vote was McMillan/Montana Kaimin cast just before midnight, accord- Dems seize Shane Mark Maher/For the Kaimin ing to local officials. District 92 candidate Robin Hamilton, front, and other Democrats at the Shack Cafe (top); UM College Republicans President Seth Patterson, right, at the In Yellowstone and Flathead Double Tree Inn (left) as Jon Tester and his supporters wait for election results in Great Falls Tuesday night (right). counties, meanwhile, computer control of problems delayed the results. The machines that were sup- posed to read and record ballots in Senate control hinges Flathead County weren’t properly U.S. House communicating with one another, DAVID ESPO an election official said. Thousands of ballots had to be fed ASSOCIATED PRESS into a scanner by hand. on Tester-Burns race Yellowstone County, the state’s WASHINGTON – Resurgent most populous county, also had Democrats won control of the computer problems, but election House and challenged the officials there refused to specify Republicans’ grip on the Senate in the nature of the trouble. midterm elections early today, rid- Nation awaits results from several Montana counties At one point, the county posted ing a powerful wave of public the results from 43 percent of its anger over the war in Iraq and precincts, but later removed those scandal at home. SEAN BRESLIN & ZACH FRANZ trickle in, Tester’s lead over Burns Democrats have had control of the numbers. Unofficial results post- “Mr. President, we need a new MONTANA KAIMIN shrank to a few thousand votes. House. ed on the county’s website at direction in Iraq,” said House By 2 a.m., Tester held the narrow- As the night wore on, members 10:39 p.m. showed Tester leading Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, With control of the U.S. Senate est of leads – 49 percent to 48 per- of both parties urged their support- with 18,161 votes, compared to celebrating her party’s return to hanging in the balance, Americans cent, but Burns was steadily gain- ers to be patient, though Gov. Brian Burns with 16,888 votes. power – and her own ascension as have turned their attention to ing ground. Libertarian candidate Schweitzer might have spoken a According to the CNN Web site, first female speaker in history. Montana’s senatorial election, Stan Jones won roughly 3 percent little too soon about when voters as of 3:15 a.m., with 14 percent of Aided by public dissatisfaction where a winner is yet to be deter- of the vote. could expect to hear final results. the precincts reporting, Burns led with President Bush, Democrats mined. As of 4 a.m., with 90 percent of “This race is going to get called Tester by 244 votes. won gubernatorial races in New As Tuesday night turned to the precincts reporting, Tester had in the next half hour,” Schweitzer Election officials decided to York, Ohio and Massachusetts for Wednesday morning, several key amassed 173,259 votes, compared said shortly after midnight. start recounting ballots in the first time in more than a counties were still tallying votes in to Burns’ 171,207, according to But two hours later there was Yellowstone County around mid- decade, then put Colorado, the race between Republican The Associated Press. still no solid outcome, and sup- night because of unfamiliarity Maryland and Arkansas in their incumbent Conrad Burns and Democrats secured four new porters of both candidates began with equipment, according to the column as well. Democratic challenger Jon Tester Senate seats nationally, while to call it a night. Associated Press. Results for the At 3 a.m. in the East, Democrats for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat. Montana and Virginia remained “I know that we are going to Senate race weren’t expected had won more than two dozen Long lines and computer glitch- up in the air. Wins in both of those win in the morning when every- until at least 5 a.m. House seats held by Republicans, es held up both the voting and the states would give Democrats a thing gets reported,” said Seth more than enough to guarantee a vote counting processes in three one-seat majority in the Senate. In Patterson, president of the UM return to power after 12 years in major counties. Virginia, Republican incumbent College Republicans. the minority. Several GOP offi- Tester jumped out to an early George Allen had not conceded to Denver Henderson, president of cials said they expected Speaker lead as results came in from dem- Democratic challenger Jim Webb, the UM College Democrats, was For updates on the Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., to step ocratic strongholds, including who was leading the election by equally confident about Tester’s down as party leader and possibly Missoula. He won 64 percent of about 8,000 votes. chances for victory. Montana Senate race, even retire from Congress. the vote in Missoula County, gar- In the House, Democrats picked “We knew ever since the pri- check out Democratic challengers defeat- nering nearly 13,000 more votes up nearly 30 seats, well beyond mary it was going to be a ridicu- ed Republican incumbents to win than Burns. the 15 needed to gain a majority. It lously close race,” Henderson www.montanakaimin.com Senate seats in Pennsylvania, But as results continued to is the first time since 1994 the said. See CONGRESS, Page 4 www.montanakaimin.com M o n t a n a K a i m i n 2 Opinion Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Letters from a Thin-Walled Apartment Editorial Experiencing the horrible trauma of neighbor sex Democrats in Congress need guts The results of yesterday have you believing that to right Republican wrongs people can make a difference in government, or final- ly convinced that democracy just doesn’t work. Whatever. It’s over, thanks for voting, and now most of you won’t have to care about government again With the Democrats making huge gains in Congress, taking until 2008. the House of Representatives and, at press time, possibly the But let’s not talk about the election here (I’m writ- Senate, American voters have sent a clear message that they ing before the results are in anyway), and if Tester are fed up with the unchecked leadership of the Republicans. lost it’d be better for all of us not to talk about it. So Inevitably, the Democrats will take this as a mandate, as let’s talk about something that has adversely affected they should; but Democrats should take pains to make sure mankind and isn’t named Conrad Burns: neighbor they understand what the mandate is for. Because it is not sex. about minimum wage, health care, or consumer protection, as The first time I encountered this phenomenon I future Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi seemed to imply in was living on the fourth floor of the Aberhood with a speeches leading up to the election. While these are all goals roommate who liked his girlfriend to stay over. We that legislators should pursue, what was at issue this mid-term never had a talk about any rules for these sleepovers, election was the growing realization among the American peo- because I assumed they’d sleep and call it good. I ple that the Republican leadership was making a mockery of was in the room after all. the ideals that found make our nation: the honesty of elected Admittedly, I sleep like a rock, but one fateful officials, balance of federal powers, benevolence of our for- night I woke up when my roomie and his girlfriend eign affairs and privacy of citizens.
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