LIVE THREAD MISSISSIPPI GOV. RACE - Barbour (R) 53% Musgrove (D) 45% (85% Reporting- AP Calls It)

11-04-03 | WKB

[WKB]

Please use this thread for comments and reports on the Mississippi Governor's Race
and all other Ms races you want to talk about.

The Polls close at 7:00 PM CST

[GeronL]

ABC Radio says its too close to call

[Fledermaus]

Ah, off the Harding road area? We moved to Franklin about 5 years ago.

[jmstein7]

I meant 51 council seats.

[MississippiMan]

Roughly half of Baldwyn is in Lee County, half in Prentiss County.

MM

[wardaddy]

Well...we live and learn. Some folks like my dad and many others were always conservative. I was a rebel more than anything else. Today, I'd probably be a Conservative just so I could argue with my professors.

[vetvetdoug]

I have met him several times. We worked together on some projects. He is heads above Jim Buck Ross as Commissioner of Agriculture.

[jwalsh07]

SECTION 140.
The Governor of the state shall be chosen in in the following manner: On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November of A.D. 1895, and on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in every fourth year thereafter, until the day shall be changed by law, an election shall be held in the several counties and districts created for the election of members of the House of Representatives in this state, for Governor, and the person receiving in any county or such legislative district the highest number of votes cast therein, for said office, shall be holden to have received as many votes as such county or district is entitled to members in the House of Representatives, which last named votes are hereby designated "electoral votes". In all cases where a representative is apportioned to two (2) or more counties or districts, the electoral vote based on such representative, shall be equally divided among such counties or districts. The returns of said election shall be certified by the election commissioners, or the majority of them, of the several counties and transmitted, sealed, to the seat of government, directed to the Secretary of State, and shall be by him safely kept and delivered to the Speaker of the House of Representatives on the first day of the next ensuing session of the Legislature.



The Speaker shall, on the same day he shall have received said returns, open and publish them in the presence of the House of Representatives, and said House shall ascertain and count the vote of each county and legislative district and decide any contest that may be made concerning the same, and said decision shall be made by a majority of the whole number of members of the House of Representatives concurring therein by a viva voce vote, which shall be recorded in its journal; provided, in case the two (2) highest candidates have an equal number of votes in any county or legislative district, the electoral vote of such county or legislative district shall be considered as equally divided between them. The person found to have received a majority of all the electoral votes, and also a majority of the popular vote, shall be declared elected.

[Prolifeconservative]

You forgot to mention leaving polls open as late as it takes.

[onyx]

41% of precincts! Oh Lord, let it continue for Haley.

[MississippiMan]

Are you as confident as Wylene that this race is over?

Yeah, based on what I've seen in this election, listening to people, etc., early in this thread I predicted a 6%-8% win for Barbour. I still feel good about that prediction.

MM

[Torie]

It looks to me that Barbour is about a 90% odds on winner now. Nothing from DeSoto or Rankin is in the totals where the count was 124,000 Barbour, 100,000 Musgrove, or thereabouts. That leaves quite a pad for Barbour even if the count so far is disproportionately white from the precincts counted in the counties reporting some votes. The vote from Hinds is small (about 5,000 votes), but clearly disproportionately black, since it is 5-1 for Musgrove. That should drop down to no more than 3-2 at the end I would suspect.

[WVNan]

Yeah. I lived in Nashville too. Born in Lincoln Co., Tenn. You name it, I've lived there.

[rushmom]

Boy do I hope you're right.

[Pubbie]

Ok, but if the viking kitties come for you don't say you weren't warned.

[NerdDad]

Looks like Lowndes is having trouble getting the graveyard vote counted. 1 of 35 reporting. We had a huge turnout today as did most of the state. Couple of contentious local races that will divide across racial and live/dead lines. Expect Columbus and Lowndes numbers to be some of the last reported. Takes a while to stuff ballots here.

[ambrose]

State house seats...

[GeronL]

I think the guys in charge of the city GOP like having a small party that they control

[mplsconservative]

Thanks! I hope those in Louisianna make it 30 next week. Sweet!

[WKB]

I knew all along I just like the attention