UPDATED: Seattle radio election coverage: the good, the bad, and the insufficient ...

KOMOAM/FM will provide the most extensive radio coverage locally with anchors Lisa Brooks and Brian Calvert; analysis with The Commentators, John Carlson & Ken Schram and local field reports from KOMO 4’s Bryan Johnson, and updates from ABC News on significant national races.

KING 5.com will have election night webcast streaming starting at 8p. Anchor Carolyn Douglas will be joined by Publicola's Josh Feit to survey the unfolding landscape with other political analysts, video reports and live shots from candidate headquarters. KING 5’s 10 & 11PM newscasts will also be live on the web.

KUOW will run live NPR feed from 6p with Marcie Sillman coming in from 8 to 9p and for local election coverage and commentary. (photo: Marci Sillman)

KVI will lead from 8 to 10p with Kirby Wilbur pontificating Republicanly, and Peter Weissbach dusting off insightful remarks he made in 2001. Carleen Johnson hosts top and bottom of the hour local news content, with national help from the Fox News feed.

 KIROFM was once a big player on election night but now in its somewhat diminished state will run election coverage if the Whiffle Soccer Battle of the Talk Show Hosts doesn’t go into overtime. Northwest Nights with Frank Shiers Show will start when the game is over and will have Ron & Don doing election analysis, celebrity dish, and Frank reading newspapers and fresh live reads of car dealership spots. (Photo right: Ron brings a lot to any discussion)

KTTH, "The Truth," will leave all stones unturned, and run the usual syndicated tape-delayed Dr. Laura (who's expected to pick a favorite in NY-23).

Comments

[AuthenticAndrew]

KOMO is on 97.7FM? Who knew?

[fRed]

Well, one thing is certain the bra that Ron is wearing obviously does not belong to the blonde in the pic.

[joanie]

Dr. Wes: Predicting the Outcome on the last page of the Election Guide 2009 published by Real Change is a good read. He about says it all anyway. And he's funny.

When you vote for a candidate, you don't have all the cards turned up.

[Mark C.]

How the news scene has changed in this town. Ron & Don doing election commentary? Think I'll watch TV tonight.

[Channel 95]

Haven't they fired Ron and Don yet? They are a disgrace to the memory of a once great station.

[AuthenticAndrew]

Why don't you pick a name and stick with it?

[NefariousNed]

I don’t listen to right wing radio, but I’m curious to know if the voter fraud innuendo has started yet?

[fRed]

AuthenticAHole can probably answer that for you post haste.

[AuthenticAndrew]

wow I have a fan club

[Tommy008]

my ballot says must be postmarked by electoi day? does that mean on election day or before it ? anyone?

[AuthenticAndrew]

on

[chucks]

You must get it postmarked before mid-night tonight. Or you can drop it off to a drop box or polling station before the polls close.

[chucks]

NefariousNed
Have you done something we should know about?

[fRed]

Actually Tommy electoi day is code for King County's reasoning behind whether they want to count your ballot or not. If they want to count it it was a typo and if they dont want to count it well you never met the requirements of having it postmarked on electoi date. Hopefully Susan will change this.

[Greyson]

Republicans eating their own. Republican’s, the other white meat.

[RobP]

>>Hopefully Susan will change this.<<

How will she do that when Dow's County Exec?

[MadMenViewer]

KIRO will again have the best coverage and commentary with Dave Ross, Dori Monson and the big T, along with R&D.

[sparky]

Voting is way down today...people who don't vote are an insult to those people around the world who have no say in what happens in their lives.

[AuthenticAndrew]

I have to say the choices really blow goats tis time around. "I'm with Dow!!!" because Hutchison is a sneaky Republican succubus, but in truth I liked Dow better before I knew him.

Rob McKenna is a much more likeable figure, but sadly he's a Republican also. It looks like McKenna will make a move towards the Governorship sometime soon.

[Paula]

I listened to KIRO radio's beginning coverage at 8 and wish I would have had KOMO on. But then I kept listening to hear just how awful it would get. Frank Shyers was simply amazed he got to sit at the same table as Dori and Dave and all of them talked over eachother and over Tony who was trying to provide the results. It was the worst radio I've ever heard from KIRO, and the ironic part of it was that Frank kept saying "we'll have the best coverage." I'm the judge of that as a listener, and I'm switching to KOMO.
Be ashamed KIRO, be very ashamed.

[AuthenticAndrew]

that's a pretty accurate account

[joanie]

If history is any predictor and from what I hear on AM radio, Republicans should do well. I sure hope not. Dems are in office and not worried but the crazy right-wing has something to prove. Will enough of them come out to make a difference?

Virginia has always been pretty firmly Republican. So I'm not going to take Virginia as an indicator state yet.

New Jersey I don't know much about. Would have thought it to be more left than right. Anybody know?

[Coiler]

eastern washington kicked 1033 out and most counties supported R71.

[Coiler]

Chuck Todd reports that Barack Obama’s approval rating among Virginia voters stands at 51 percent (just under the 52.6 percent of the vote he received in the state last November) and 57 percent in New Jersey (almost exactly the same as the 57.1 percent of the vote he earned in that state last November). In other words, exit polling indicates President Obama has not really lost supporters over the past year.

[joanie]

Does our BW have a new look? Or did I do something to my font command? I looks different on my monitor. Did I miss something?

Scott Ritter sure nailed Afghanistan on Reagan's show today. He's not impressed with Obama's general.

Who listens to KIRO anymore?

[Coiler]

the font is larger

[AuthenticAndrew]

The Republican pickup doesn't mean much. There's always some party flipping every election because when voters are feeling poor they just want to replace whoever is in with someone else. New Jersey ousted a "D" on account of the "economy", but in the last election the country ousted lots if "R"s for precisely the same reason.

I expect Republicans to make some gains in 2010 simply because confidence will not have returned by then, and even though this drepcession was set in motion in '05 or so, voters will react emotionally to not having a job. They're basically all chucks.

[mrogi]

Conservative women are hot and look great on TV. Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Bachman. Every one of those conservative broads is a MILF.

[sparky]

I like the larger font!

mrogi..knock yourself out, but remember to glove up.

[sparky]

Let's all give a hearty round of applause to the teabaggers, who took what would've been a very good night for Republicans and ruined it by helping Democrats pick up a seat they hadn't held since the Civil War.

Glenn Beck? Thanks!

Sarah Palin? Thanks!

Tim Pawlenty? Thanks!

Club for Growth? Thanks!

Ironically, the NRCC, the RNC, Newt Gingrich and the smartest Republican in the world, Tom Davis (former NRCC chair) were right -- the Republican Party needs to be more of a big tent to successfully compete in the Northeast and other non-Southern parts of the country.

So let's sit back and watch the teabaggers go to war against the GOP establishment, even though it was the national and local GOP that knew how to best hold the seat.

While the Virginia and New Jersey losses hurt, governor races usually revolve around local issues. If the question was "are voters angry at the direction of Congress and want Democrats stopped", then the answer is clear -- Democrats won both congressional races, including the über-reliable NY-23. Even in conservative districts (at least those outside the South), people don't want what the teabaggers are selling.

[AuthenticAndrew]

Thank God the decent people of King County had the good sense not to elect a lady with no experience who had hoped to cruise into a high office on her local celebrity alone. Fuck You Susan.

[chucks]

A woman with no experience does not qualify to be King County Executive but a man with no experience is qualified to be President of the United States.
Fuck you Andrew, you misogynist piece of shit.
I can see you being against her for her not wanting to kill babies willie-nillie or if she is against gay marriage and all of the other liberal platforms you swallow, but "not experienced" should be off the table with you lefty's.

[AuthenticAndrew]

I voted for Hillary you man cunt.

[joanie]

A man with no experience? George Bush?

Wow! We agree on that at least.

Not want to kill babies? You, the armchair general who sends kids in to die where you wouldn't tread talking about killing babies which you do over and over again by denying healthcare to mothers?

Does anybody else have a difficult time understanding this guy?

[AuthenticAndrew]

he's completely nuts

[mrogi]

George Bush was a 2-term Governor of Texas before he became President. GW defeated a beloved Democrat incumbent Governor named Ann Richards. Bush had a helluva lot more experience than Barack Obama.

[chucks]

I stand by my original post to Andy. It is lame assed bullshit to deny a King County Executive candidate due to lack of experience yet sing the glory of a man with zero experience to be President.
So go fuck yourself Andy the misogynistic VD infested moron.

[AuthenticAndrew]

I don't sing praises for Obama. I've said many times on here that I have no intention of explaining or defending him. It's cool that he's the first black president but I have yet to see him deliver on his promises. So you're wrong again. You're always wrong.

[Coiler]

Golly!

[Tommy008]

Dave Boze' recent shows with his anti gay righs brother-in-law- tape them, market them, and watch the non-prescription sleeping pills industry go out of business. There is no soporific pharmaceutical, at least over the counter, that that can touch these tapes.

[Katnip]

Another right winger pegged by a “conservative Republican House member”

A conservative Republican House member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, suggested that Bachman's views - and her willingness to state them - make it hard for her to keep staff.

"When your captain's crazy, it's time to find a new ship," the lawmaker said.

[joanie]

Andrew, how could chux with no military experience send kids into war to die if he didn't believe - truly believe - that lack of experience is a good thing?

Best example I can think of? Michael Brown. Chux, Susan, and Michael Brown. Soulsiblings.

Of course, the rest of us know better. Thank god.

[chucks]

How can you be so stupid as to consider the men and women of the US Armed Forces as kids? Do you not think of those that have re-enlisted two and three times so that they can finish the mission that they believe in as capable of making big person decisions.
You are a rather condescending old maid that knows not of that which she babels.
Now open another box of wine you old fool so that you can sleep tonight and fuck up the lives of thirty first graders in the morning.

[AuthenticAndrew]

They recruit kids so young that the parents have to sign off on it.

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Why is it that nearly every soldier I come across say they would leave the military when their contract is up but that they can't find work and have to re-enlist to pay the bills?

[joanie]

Chux speaks as one who has been there - not.

Like most armchair generals, he's happy to believe what suits his wannabe-warrior imagination. He's not working. He ought to join the Eric Prince Brigade and find out what he's talking about.

But he'd rather plant his football fanny on a tax-payor subsidized seat. Send the kids to die.