Posted on 11/17/2006 9:10:39 PM PST by LdSentinal
Republican Rep. Heather Wilson retained her seat Friday, narrowly winning a fifth term in Congress by defeating Democrat Patricia Madrid and overcoming election-season sentiment that battered GOP incumbents nationwide.
Wilson won New Mexico's 1st Congressional District after Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrera released the county's final unofficial count Friday night.
The final unofficial tally was 105,916 votes for Wilson, and 105,037 for Madrid. That gave Wilson a winning margin of 879 votes — with roughly 211,000 ballots cast in the race.
''The people of New Mexico have asked me to continue to represent them in the Congress,'' Wilson said Friday night. ''I am humbled by that trust, and I will work every day to continue to earn it.''
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I continue to be amazed at how close to the 50/50 mark America is on everything election related.
And Madrid was that incoherent, babbling person in the debate video circulating around before election day? Scary that it was THAT close!
Your on a roll LD. Keep the good news coming!
Your on a roll LD. Keep the good news coming!
How about J.D. Hayworth here in Az.?
Great tagline! I love Chesty Puller
Yes, well, it seems that FR is just full of threads with bad news. I mean, who really wants to read Democratic press releasea?
Although I'm an Arizona resident, I listen to Albuquerque radio quite a bit. I'm happy to see Wilson pull this one out. The global Communist crowd has been brutalizing her for the last year.
These narrow House races are turning out to be not quite as much of a rout as the Dims had expected. Grandma Nancy is deeply saddened;)
Well, I'm afraid JD Hayworth conceded earlier this week.
Madrid spokeswoman Heather Brewer said Democrats would wait for all possible votes to be tallied before making a decision on whether to seek a recount.''The bottom line is we can't make a decision about what to do next. Other people can declare victory but we choose to wait and let democracy play its course,'' Madrid said.
Her comments are the signal for the Rat lawyers to jump in now. Look for the Democrats to challenge the results in court and of course in NM, they are all controlled by the Democrats also.
Great news BUMP!
Now I'm nit picking. LOL
Oh, I missed that. Sheesh
FR is awfully slow this evening.
Earlier the ABQ KRQE Channel 13 website was hacked and brought down by an Islamic site out of Turkey. (I was checking for election results and got the Turkish site. I called the station and they said they didn't know anything about it. I spent an hour on my machine checking for sypware, viruses, etc. and all was o.k. except for some data mining cookies which I got rid of. I called the station back and they said indeed they had been hacked through one of their webpages. You probably won't hear the story anywhere but here.)
I was just thinking that myself. Almost every election is very close now. Nailbitingly close.
I continue to be amazed at how close to the 50/50 mark America is on everything election related.
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With respect to Lot's family . . . and God not finding 10 righteous in the city . . . I hope there's at least 10 righteous in most all our cities. But the trend you note is not comforting.
Soddom and Gomorroah didn't go by God's name and clame to be a Godly nation either.
Yep, REALLY S - L - O - W
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