Posted on 07/17/2007 5:59:12 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
With 54% of the precincts in, Paul Broun is at 54.5% and Jim Whitehead is at 45.5%
Broun has really been able to pull in votes in Clarke County and Oconee County.
[UPDATE:] We might just be calling this race for Paul Broun. Athens has stomped Jim Whitehead. Did they not even try there? With 68% in, we’re at 54.9% to 45.1%.
A lot of crow will be eaten if Broun wins.
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The special election to succeed the late Charlie Norwood is today. This says that Dr. Paul Broun is leading state Senator Jim Whitehead, the GOP establishment’s choice, in the vote totals.
Can anyone confirm this?
who’s who?
WOW
Very close
Well, that’s quite a surprise!
Both candidates are Republicans in a runoff tonight that’s technically non-partisan. The Republican establishment has rallied around state Senator Jim Whitehead. The political outsider is Dr. Paul Broun, whose father was a state Senator years ago. This is claiming that Broun, who was thought to have no chance, is winning.
I am looking for confirmation of it and have been unable to find any so far.
“Well, that’s quite a surprise!”
Yes, and a GOOD surprise. Broun ran a conservative populist campaign, and took the more forceful stand against amnesty for illegal aliens.
Didn’t Whitehead endorse amnesty? If he did, and he’s losing to the outsider despite party support, this is good news.
Wow, this is a surprise.
I’d assumed that Whitehead would win 60-40%.
I’m not sure the votes are there for Whitehead to come from behind.
U.S. Representative, District 10 95% of precincts reporting PR=Precincts Reporting TP=Total Precincts Broun (R) 23,084 50.3% Whitehead (R) 22,813 49.7%
Whitehead didn’t endorse amnesty, but Broun was much more outspoken in his opposition to it.
So where do Whitehead and Broun stand on illegal immigration?
For the unitiated outsiders, what’s the significance of Broun’s lead? Beyond the fact that the other candidate was the establishment choice I mean.
This’ll be a nice, pleasant surprise. Sen. Whitehead isn’t a bad man, but it’s always refreshing to send anti-establishment Republicans to office... as long as they’re not too nutty (i.e. Dr. Demento).
It also demonstrates that placing first before a runoff isn’t always a guarantee of a victory.
Broun really emphasized his social conservative roots at the end of the runoff campaign.
thanks
As I recall, Clarke County is where one of the major Georgia cities is located, and I seem to remember it being a county with a strong Democratic presence, so, Broun might be benefitting from Democratic crossover voters.
I think it’s interesting because this election feels alot like the old primaries used to be. I personally think that the primary as nominating election system honestly clouds the way elections would progress if normally carried out. For example, I pretty much don’t get a vote in who represents me on the school board, or state house because both are black districts, and as such, are decided in the Democratic primary. Only way I’d concievably get a vote is if a special election was held, such as this. So what you might be seeing, at least in Clarke, is a desire among Democrats to basically, actually have a real vote for once.
Then again, this also the product of the fact that Georgia actually has a law that says that there are runoffs in partisan general/special elections, and most states don’t have that. The fact that this race is even happening is because of that quirk in GA law. I think that was the same thing that got Coverdell elected, could be wrong on that though.
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