Tue Nov 04, 2014 at 10:24 PM PT (David Jarman): TX-23: One more name for the casualty list: Dem freshman Pete Gallego loses to Republican Will Hurd in the sprawling 23rd, according to CNN. This is a Hispanic-majority district with serious turnout dropoffs in midterms (we lost it in 2010, won it back in 2012).
Tue Nov 04, 2014 at 10:26 PM PT (David Jarman): HI-Gov: Okay, here's some good news, though something that looked pretty likely based on the last month of polling: Democrat David Ige has won the Hawaii governor's race, according to the AP. He leads Duke Aiona by a very convincing 53-34. Probably a good thing Ige beat the unpopular Neil Abercrombie in the Dem primary, though.
Tue Nov 04, 2014 at 10:29 PM PT (David Jarman): AK-Sen, AK-Gov: We're on track for both incumbents in Alaska to lose. Dem incumbent Mark Begich is trailing Dan Sullivan 50-44 in the Senate race (with 23 percent reporting), but on the gubernatorial side, independent/quasi-Dem Bill Walker is beating GOP incumbent Sean Parnell 49-46.
Tue Nov 04, 2014 at 10:31 PM PT (David Jarman): UT-04: One of the weirdest stories of the night: Republican Mia Love's struggles, for a second time in a row, to put away this dark-red district. Looks like she finally made it, though; with all precincts reporting, she leads Dem Doug Owens 50-47 in this open seat. You've got to wonder if Jim Matheson (who decided to retire) could have won it if he'd stuck around, given Love's consistent underperformance here.
Tue Nov 04, 2014 at 10:37 PM PT (David Jarman): HI-01: Here's one other piece of good news from the Aloha State. There had been some dangerously close polls of the open 1st (vacated by Colleen Hanabusa), where Mark Takai faces off against fluky Republican ex-Rep. Charles Djou. Takai's now winning 53-45 with about half of precincts reporting.
Tue Nov 04, 2014 at 10:43 PM PT (David Jarman): MN-07, MN-08: Somewhere in there we missed mentioning a couple important holds in Minnesota's most hotly contested House races. Long-timer Collin Peterson won pretty convincingly 54-46 over Torrey Westrom in the 7th. And in the 8th, Rick Nolan held on against the wealthy (and hunky, in some people's eyes) Stewart Mills, 49-47. That last one is big: old-school labor liberal Nolan was the most progressive Dem in any competitive race this year, so keeping him while we shed some Blue Dogs elsewhere takes away some of the sting.
Tue Nov 04, 2014 at 10:50 PM PT (David Jarman): ME-Gov: The AP and CNN have finally called the Maine gubernatorial race for Paul LePage. The conventional wisdom was that if Eliot Cutler fell into the single digits, that'd be the end of LePage, but somehow he managed to get his total up to 48 (with Mike Michaud at 44 and Cutler at 8).
Tue Nov 04, 2014 at 11:12 PM PT (David Nir): The liveblog continues here.