Paul and Kucinich Triumph, Clinton Endures, Mike Huckabee Splatters Against the Wall

Reason Hit & Run ^ | 4 Mar 2008 | David Weigel

[oblomov]

UPDATE 8:36: Ron Paul has been re-elected to Congress in the Fourteenth District of Texas.

Campaign manager Mark Elam: "Chris Peden is toast. It's just a question of how big the margin is."

The campaign is looking at a result in line with its final internal polls, with about 70 percent of the vote going to Paul.

With about 8,400 votes in, Paul is leading Peden 72-28.

UPDATE 8:53: These are early votes being reported right now, but around 40 to 50 percent of votes were cast in early voting and the Paul campaign doesn't expect the election day results to diverge. Brazoria County, which casts the plurality of TX-14 votes, is going 72-28 for Paul and 16 percent for him in the presidential race. Fort Bend County is Peden's stronghold, going only 60-40 for Paul.

[oblomov]

Ron Paul is part of the right, even if his views are sometimes minority opinions within the right. I'm glad the voters of TX-14 saw fit to return Paul to Congress.

[NoWayMcCain]

So far:

Ron Paul: 10,569

Chris Peden: 4,913

Total votes: 15,482

Most overhyped failed congressional primary challenger ever.

[eclecticEel]

Good, we need dissenting voices within the party, even if they can be a bit extreme at times.

[oblomov]

[NoWayMcCain]

[CJ Wolf]

Let freedom ping.

[Womp Rat]

Congratulations to Ron Paul!

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Rwned

[Petronski]

[Larry Lucido]

Wouldn’t want Paul as CinC, but I can definitely live with him in congress.

[FreeInWV]

SoS Results
http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_state.htm?x=0&y=1500&id=927

[Anti-Bubba182]

[M203M4]

What a pity Chris Peden wasted his efforts trying to unseat a conservative, instead of going after a RINO (the term 'RINO' is sorta meaningless now...if the bulk of the party drifts left while you stay still, eventually you will be a RINO, though I am not sure we are at that point yet where the connotation should be the inverse of what it used to be) left-winger (either R or D).

Some fresh blood with his (fairly conservative - regardless of his neocon support) alignment would be welcome. Why not aim for the 16th district nomination in the hopes of being the candidate to take that seat from the rats for the second time in 100 years?

[montag813]

I will admit I have grown to like Ron Paul over the course of this campaign, after ridiculing him in the beginning. His views on fiscal conservatism and the failure of the profligate Federal Reserve have been spot on.

[Alex Murphy]

UPDATE 8:36: Ron Paul has been re-elected to Congress in the Fourteenth District of Texas...with about 70 percent of the vote going to Paul.

Huzzah!

[mmichaels1970]

Ohio Secretary of State reports 0...that's zero votes reported for District 10. I'm not sure where Kucinich victory projections are coming from. Of course, he always wins in an area that has been nearly destroyed by crime and economic woes...that's just how people vote around here.

[padre35]

Ahh..nothing like winning.

[dcwusmc]

Yeah, but the sore losers still have their panties in a wad about Dr. Paul and his actual Conservative, CONSTITUTIONAL positions. They need to get over it and get a life.

[oblomov]

Still trying to send non-conforming conservatives off to the psikhushka, I see...

[Zhang Fei]

As a big tent Republican, I see this as good news.