Posted on 11/06/2008 10:07:36 PM PST by Chet 99
Republican Tony Strickland took an 840-vote lead over Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson in the oh-so-close balloting in the 19th Senate District on Thursday, the first day of what could be a month-long process to determine the winner of the most expensive political contest in Ventura County history.
Strickland emerged with a lead after Ventura County election officials counted 11,294 mail-in-ballots that hadn’t been received in time to process before Election Day. His 948-vote net gain allowed him to leapfrog ahead of Jackson, who led by 108 votes after election night.
The votes counted Thursday were exceptionally rich for Strickland. He was the choice on 58.6 percent of the new ballots counted, well above the percentage by which he carried Ventura County and also above the percentage he received of the mail-in ballots from the county that were tabulated on Election Day.
The lead could see-saw between the candidates over the next 10 days or so, with Jackson likely to make up some ground today when Santa Barbara County – which she carried by 11 percentage points – is expected to release its first batch of additional results.
Strickland & McClintock trying to pull this one out...come on boys!
It is amazing that a socialist rat like Hanna Beth-Jackson is even competitive in this district.
Why not ? Plenty of Socialist rodents win in heavily Republican districts (and some of them are known as RINOs).
Hope my husband’s and my vote for him in SBC puts him over the top :-)!!!!
Stuff like this in California almost gives you hope.
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