BatBlog Live !!! Election Night Coverage 2016...

The votes are mostly cast and The BatBlog correspondents are out ready to report the results...Catch all the coverage all night on The "award winning BatBlog...

BatBlog's 2016 Election Eve Special

Welcome to the BatBlog Election Eve special, a final look and prediction of tomorrows important races....

The big race of course is the presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Every indicator and statistical  model points to a Clinton win, though the race has tightened  lately. Trump will win Indiana and Clark Co. easily, no surprise there, but The BatBlog predicts Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the 1st woman President of the United States. Trump has buried himself with his divisive message.  Minorities (Hispanics, Muslims and to a lesser extent blacks) are coming to the polls in droves to vote against The Donald. Trump's poor standing also with women and the college educated will bury any chance of him winning..

Early on Indiana state races looked good for Democrats especially the U.S. Senate seat. A late surge by Todd Young (R) has Dem.'s concerned and Evan Bayh's return to office in jeopardy. The BatBlog predicts a close race but Todd Young led by GOP supremacy in the Hoosier state will narrowly win.

In the 9th dist. U.S. House of Representatives contest surprisingly to The BatBlog Shelli Yoder's (D) trails Trey Hollingsworth (R) in the latest polls. Once again it looks GOP domination will continue to be a huge influence at the polls. It looks like to the BatBlog that Tennessee Trey has bought himself an election.

 The only state candidate who might avoid the GOP bandwagon is Dem. gubernatorial candidate John Gregg in governor's race. As of a couple a days ago Gregg had a small lead and The BatBlog thinks he will hang on and win the state house.

Locally in Clark Co.look for three Democrats Vissing and Hubbard in the county Council race and Edwin Coots in the coroner's race to win out over the GOP's strong influence. These races could be close though and expect one Rep. possibly Popplewell to win the other slot on the council as the other (D) Smith will be defeated... In the school board races The BatBlog  predicts winners in Kate Hutchison and Kelli Dattilo...

Local Libertarians fielded a full slate of candidates for the first time this year in Clark Co. but will be rather insignificant in the election. Kelley Curran is a good choice and gets The BatBlog's endorsement in countu council race but faces a difficult, uphill challenge as Libertarian's just aren't viable yet as major contenders. Even with the two most unpopular candidates in history in the presidential race the Libertarian candidate will be lucky if he gets 5 % of the vote.

Whatever your affiliation be sure to Vote....

and check in tomorrow for The BatBlog's Election day coverage

Nate Silver on the 2016 Goliath Award

 The world famous statistician and election guru Nate Silver of the 538 website has released his latest and last prediction on the 2016 Goliath Award...The two blogs  in the running for the prestigious award are the two time past winner the "Award Winning" Batblog of HT and the perennial loser the (CCC) Clark County Chatter of Quasar. From the beginning it was never much of a race as the odds on favorite HT and his Blog has soared in popularity...

Here are Silver's final prediction...As you notice from the Chart below Google's indictment of Quasar's Chatter for producing a "Deceptive Site"  unsafe where possible phishing and stolen passwords, and where credit card information could be stolen pushed The BatBlog to unprecedented numbers, In contrast The BatBlog has been cleared as 100% safe by Google and is actually a Google supported site.... The  case is clear for the 2016 Goliath Award...The "Award Winning" BatBlog by HT...

Down The Stretch We Come ...Election 2016

 Things are getting interesting as Election 2016 hits the final few days. The presidential race nationally appears to be tightening as does the Indiana Senate race. The latest polls have Bayh and Young neck and neck with the momentum in Todd Young's favor. Trump will win Indiana that's never been in question but surprisingly to The Batblog  the latest polls have Shelli Yoder trailing Tennessee Trey Hollingsworth by 3 points in their 9th dist. house race.

 The only Democrat who seems to be avoiding the Republican trend here in Indiana is John Gregg who according to the latest poll is 4-5 points ahead of Holcomb in the gubernatorial race as we enter the final few days of campaigning.

 The GOP trend is also very strong in Clark Co. as well....Trump is up by 8 points in the county and The BatBlog wouldn't be too surprised if the GOP has strong showings in the few county races on the ballot. Vissing and Hubbard are Dem. incumbents who could get some stiff opposition from the Rep. candidates and we see one Rep. at least being elected to the council...Even the coroner's race where Coots have held the office forever could get a strong effort by Billy Scott the Rep.and the County commissioner's races are in the bag for the GOP...It will all be over but the celebrating come Tuesday.

 Don't forget to Vote !!! and if your a Democrat you might want to vote often...

Conspiracy Theories on the Demise of the CCC...

The local internet forum the Clark County Chatter's disappearance from the World Wide Web has spawned various conspiracy theories across the web. Since the Chatter thrives on mostly obscure, right wing conspiracies from obscure internet sites, The BatBlog thought it only fair to post the various theories about the demise of the Chatter. So here goes..,

Theories

1. An opening salvo by GAW in the internet wars...this would be GAW's third war and after winning the first  two Goliath intends to hack them into internet oblivion...

2. Quasar's parents disconnected the internet from their basement so that the Big Q might have to look for a real job....

3. The constant linking to obscure, delusional  right wing sites included one that hacked into CCC's data base which Google describe as phishing therefore removing them.

4. It just imploded from the negative karma...

5. One of the many former members who were banned for disagreeing or mentioning The (Award winning) BatBlog  hired  Chinese or Russian hackers to bring the CCC down.

There are numerous other theories flying around if you happen to hear any more feel free to share them...

CCC Hacked ???

 

 What's going on with the Clark Co. Chatter the local internet forum ??? Users are getting a "Deceptive Site Ahead" message when trying to access the site and warns of attackers attempting to garner personal information. Are the Russians involved ??? Is the Big Q a Russian double agent ?? Bad Karma ???

 Stay tuned to the "Award Winning" BatBlog were you are always safe from hackers....

Clark Co. Commissioners Races

 
 Two of the three Clark Co. commissioners positions are up for grabs this election year 2016. In Dist.1 former Jeffersonville city councilwoman Connie Sellers (R) faces two opponents Miguel Hampton (D) and Ryan Jefferson (L). In Dist.2 incumbent commissioner Jack Coffman faces only token opposition in Libertarian Shawn Bostock ...there is no Democratic on the ballot for this position.

  Republicans should regain hold of both of these seats. Coffman and Rick Stephenson (who lost to Sellers in the GOP primary) have done solid jobs and Coffman deserves reelection. Sellers as city councilperson showed that she could be obstructive at times, but is a popular vote getter and she will win easily as will Coffman...

 Seems kind of curious that the Democratic party couldn't put up any candidate in Dist.2 or a more known candidate in dist.1. other than "Toxic John " Perkins. Word on the street is that Democratic chair Tom Galligan didn't want to run a strong candidate against Sellers since she was basically a puppet to Galligan when he was mayor of Jeff and she was on the city council...

Whatever !!!  Republicans will keep both seats...

The BatBlog endorses Jack Coffman(R) and Miguel Hampton (D) for Clark Co. commissioner...