With projections showing that Democrats, as widely anticipated, taking control of the House, some highlights from races of interest:
Texas 22 remains too close to call, although Democrat Nick Lampson has a 10-point (9,000-vote) lead over Shelley Sekula-Gibbs with two-thirds of the precincts reporting.
In Florida, Rep. Dave Weldon (R) defeated Robert Bowman by 12 points with nearly all the votes counted, while Rep. Tom Feeney (R) defeated Clint Curtis by a similar margin.
Elsewhere, no surprises: Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Mark Udall (D-CO) won reelection by large margins.
In Indiana, Rep. Chris Chocola (R) lost to Democratic challenger Joe Donnelly. Rep. Chocola, regular readers might recall, made a cameo appearance here last year when he pushed through an amendment to the NASA appropriations bill that prohibits NASA from spending any money on an “artist-in-residence” program. I don’t know if any artists are dancing (singing? painting?) in the streets over this.
Finally, congratulations to Congressman-elect Space. Zach Space, that is.
After Laurie Anderson did it, NASA probably wouldn’t spend the money anyway. She may well be the only artist in residence at NASA for all time.