Posted on 11/07/2005 11:46:41 PM PST by BillyBoy
My Fellow FReepers,
As it now past midnight (well at least for those of us in Central Standard Time) and I did a general search and couldn't find a single thread dedicated to election 2005, I have taken the liberty of creating one.
THIS is the place to post all your updates and discussions on '05 races around the country. From the Boston Mayoral Race to the fight for Virginia Attorney General, keep the adrenaline flowing here.
Will the GOP make a midterm gubernatorial comeback after suffering through the 2001 "mistakes" of McGreeley and Mark Warner? Will Ahnuld, the CA Dummycrats, or independent minded conservatives emerge triumph in California's latest (but not greatest!) "special election"? Will the liberal incumbent crush his equally liberal challenger in New York? And do conservatives even care?
Let's get the discussion rolling folks. You heard it here first!
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J W Kilgore Republican 3,913 56.20%
T M Kaine Democratic 2,887 41.46%
H R Potts Jr Independent 153 2.20%
Write Ins 10 0.14%
www.redstate.org
Time of update Kilgore (R) Kaine (D) Potts (I)
7:15 EST 240 151 7
Update [2005-11-8 19:18:10 by Dales]: First returns in. Basically same percentage for Kilgore as Bush got in that precinct, with the downballot candidates running a few percentage points better.
also, Potts only got 1.75% in this district which is where I thought he'd be' the results don't mean much for the two viable candidates but I'll bet this is typical for the indy...
Thx and Thx for the SOS link.
Fox just had a talking head saying turnout may be closer to 60% than 40%
Thanks - that's much better.
Kilgore doing better than his republican counterpart running for Lt. Governor but not as well as the republican running for the AG spot. GO KILGORE!
WTF I said to myself and went home.
I finally got around to looking at today's (election day) mail and guess what was in there.
It was a notice for me to disregard the polling place listed on my sample ballot and go to a new polling site.
Too late......I've already tossed back a couple of vodka and cranberry concoctions and I'm just about ready for a 3rd.
I'ts absentee for me from now on.
Office: Governor
Precincts Reporting: 27 of 2426 (1.11%)
Registered Voters: 4,452,099 Total Voting: 16,281 Voter Turnout: 0.37 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
J W Kilgore Republican 8,460 51.96%
T M Kaine Democratic 7,423 45.59%
H R Potts Jr Independent 381 2.34%
Write Ins 17 0.10%
>> Prop 76 corrects that.
FWIW: I'm in the YES camp, on that one, but I'm still waiting to read a decent rationale for a "NO" vote on it -- granting that one might exist.
I voted about the same time out in the sticks in Spotsylvania County, and my number was over 1,000. Let's hope that's a trend.
Now I'm getting a bad feeling that Kaine will win. Kilgore feel big time with those new votes while the republicans for Lt. Governor and AG held steady.
Polls & Pundits has a great website devoted only to the "key" counties in the race: http://pollsandpundits.com/page2.html
Thanks!
I'm cautiously optimistic. I think Kilgore wins in a squeakier.
Depends on what the Fox looks like. ;-)
" .....that they had internal polling indicating they might be losing this one."
Did you see the sudden SurveyUSA update yesterday .... VA too "volatile" .. after having shown Kaine up 9, they suddenly were seeing large swings to Kilgore and just couldn't figure it out? I'm thinking Kaine & Co. were reacting to that.
All fingers and toes still crossed ;)
Kilgore is only 2 points behind the GOP AG and LG candidates.
THe LG and AG guys were expected to win comfortably so this is very good news for Kilgore.
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