Yes, this would be Breaking News.
Now let's hope The Good People of Texas voted Republican.
This race is over another dem for Pelosi.
It seems like the Gop base has stayed home permanently and the independents are now dem voters.
Thank Kennedy of the supreme court for another dem seat.
Bonilla's old seat would have sent him to congress. That seat had voted 63 percent for bush this one voted 57 percent for bush and was more hispanic.
This country has gone so far left it is scary. A left winger like ciro doing so well just shows how this country's politics are closer to socialism in south america than conservatism.
Bring on the amnesty and unions.
With the youth vote, illegals, immigrants, liberal media this country will never have conservative leadership again.
Bonilla got 48.6% in the 11/8 election, and 6 Democrats together got 48.7% -- it makes no sense for Bonilla to get a much lower percentage now, so this must be a unrepresentative bunch of precincts, which often happens in the early returns.
This is the district most affected earlier this year when the courts ruled certain congressional districts did not meet the standards of the Voting Rights Act. Translated, that means there weren't enough Hispanic Democrats in the district, as the district was already electing a Hispanic.
So, Pub precincts in north San Antonio were removed, and Dem precincts in south San Antonio were added to the district. Rodriguez was the congressman from a neighboring district, who was unseated two years ago in the Dem primary by Henry Cuellar.
In past elections, the late boxes would come in for Bonilla. Tonight, it looks like the lines are going to defeat him.
That's a bad thing.
I can't see Henry Bonilla losing this...he's won all the important counties before.
8:54 CT:
Henry Bonilla REP 24,077 42.75%
Ciro D. Rodriguez DEM 32,243 57.25%
Bonilla's a goner Charles. Bexar County is dem country.
Just said on the news that Bonilla will concede. I'm more than upset about this one. Bonilla was safe until redistricting. It was a tough race because of being right before the holidays and people being too preoccupied with other things. Plus I heard the Dems brought a lot of people in from DC to help Rodriguez's campaign. I'm not sure what the Republicans did for Bonilla.
Bexar(5) 47%
El Paso(8) 36%
Hudspeth(2) 67%
Medina(23) 63%
Val Verde(17) 46%
212 of 267 have reported with Bonilla at 45%
AP has called it for Rodriguez.
Why do we keep losing?? How liberal is Rodriguez?
Interesting. This fellows voting record will be identical to Barney Franks...
This was a foregone conclusion once a court said Bonilla's district was "unconstitutional" because it "excluded minorities" (where exactly in the Constitution does it say that?) and redrew it so Bonilla would surely lose.
I really wanted Bonilla to win, but I feared that, if he did, conservatives would get self-satisfied and think that there are no changes needed. The silver lining here may be that the GOP will be forced to realize that we can't just pretend that everything is hunky-dory and make no changes. And, by changes, I am thinking about Iraq, in particular.