Posted on 11/05/2013 8:04:45 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT
EAST HARTFORD — Mayor Marcia Leclerc and all incumbent Democrats were re-elected Tuesday.
http://www.sots.ct.gov/sots/cwp/view.asp?a=3179&q=534608
read the morning papers and turns out that, while I slept, an additional GOPer got elected in my area, too .... by 18 votes. 801 to 783. due to AB’s, etc. We wrote him off as a lost cause weeks ago.
One other GOP newcomer lost citywide,
3926 to 3911
In my voting place, over 20% of the votes for at-large alderman were BLANK. We just needed 15 more republicans who showed up to actually vote for the Republicans, instead of leaving their vote blank for alderman.
One final spot, we lost by 4 votes ... and 17 ballots were spoiled due to error ... the wrong ballots were used at that spot briefly ... so we get a second chance likely. A re-vote next month.
I think in the future I am only working locally at these ward matters in my own town cuz I like to win. Winning at a larger scale requires cooperation of too many other people.
I just have a hard time getting worked up over the VA Gov race since I am not involved in it. In my old age, I figure the greater world can take of itself and I will work on stomping out the communists in my own ward area. It is an interesting project cuz one voting district in part of state rep district 25 (a challenging area) and the next voting district over is part of a swing district state rep ... which could go GOP when it is open. So that is 2 state rep seats we can work on.
I’ve helped win 5 state rep seats since ‘10, but as an out-of-towner, I am cast aside as irrelevant after the victory is obtained. It was a flawed strategy. Successful, but flawed. And the Scott Brown people never send me a Christmas card. I don’t even get one from Doug Hoffman NY-23 (Dede Scazzafava opponent).
“Stay local, my friends.”
“I am the most interesting political hack in the world.” -campaignPete
IMO there ain't no such thing as a good democrat. Not even a dead one since dead ones keep voting.
Ah I didn’t know there was a WA State Senate special, it’s for the seat of Derek Kilmer, who was elected to replace Norm Dicks in Congress. The Senate is currently run by a coalition of Republicans and 2 democrats. Longtime “DINO” Tim Sheldon and a former State House RINO party switcher, elected as a rat to the Senate, Rodney Tom. Picking up this seat would leave the GOP 1 shy of a real majority. The GOP candidate is State Rep. Jan Angel, her foe appointed rat Senator Nathan Schlicher. Angel’s House seat appears secure if she wins and vacates it. She’s ahead by just under 52-48 according to the latest numbers.
http://vote.wa.gov/results/current/LegislativeDistrict26.html
There were 2 more specials, both GOP versus GOP runoffs.
The roller coaster continues in VA. Obenshain up again by 681 votes.
http://electionresults.virginia.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=SWR&map=CTY
I’m glad for the success in your town, Pete. And sad at those close losses. A few votes. Once by late Grandma and her friends were the margin of victory in their small suburban Mayoral race.
Pete, given that the screw- up with the 17 wrong ballots occured in a district that elects two aldermen, with one Democrat being easily in first place, a Democrat placing second (far off first place), a Republican third just 4 votes away from second place, and another Republican fourth 18 votes away from second place, will the revote take place with al mfour candidates on the ballot, or just among the second and third-place finishers?
good questions .... of course I think the GOP has to go to court to challenge the results and ... we will see what the judge decides ...
It seems clear based on CT recent cases that they will revote ... I assume DEM #1 is declared a winner and the revote will include only 2nd and 3rd place finishers.
But will they revote in all 3 voting places or only in the ONE affected spot? Can we assume that turnout will be lower in the revote? If yes ... GOP has advantage cuz the bad votes were in the heavy DEM district.
what about that NY state senate u mentioned?
I mentioned nothing about the NY Senate.
There was some confusion about Clintonfatigued’s post #52 but I had nothing to do with it. There was no special Senate election in NY.
But here’s more good from NY, GOP won the Erie Country (BUFFALO) Legislature for the first time since the 70’s!
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/erie-county-politics/gop-sweeps-erie-county-20131106.
And the vote count for Virginia AG did not change over night, still at +681 for the good guy.
The fourth-place finisher (R) is less than 17 votes away from third place, but more than 17 votes away from second place (which is the spot that would get him elected), so I would order a revote just between the second- and third-place finishers (one D and one R). If the judge somehow rules that the fourth-place finisher has the right to participate in the revote, then the only fair way would be if the first-place finisher also has to run again, with each voter getting to vote for 2 just as on election day; otherwise, with 2 Rs and 1 D and voters only being able to choose 1, the D surely will win.
As for whether to revote just in the one voting place where the screw-up took place or in all three voting places ... I think they’d have to revote in all three to avoid an equal-protection problem. And I wouldn’t be too sure that the revote in the heavily Dem voting place would see lower turnout: sure, revotes and runoffs almost always see lower turnout, but in a situation in which the RAT knows for sure that just a few votes will get him elected you can be sure that he’ll scour the neighborhood offering packs of cigarettes to voters.
Great news from Erie County!
Whoops, my mistake. My allotted time at the library was running low.
US House news, Rat state auditor Glen Gainer is running against David McKinley in WV-01. Possibly making that race competitive.
Howard Coble (NC-6) to retire.
Emphasis on “possibly.” Gainer is a dynastic politician who inherited the office of Auditor from his father (which they’ve held continuously for almost 4 decades) and has coasted on incumbency (in fact, he’s only faced 2 GOP opponents since he took the office in 1992, in 2004 and 2012, the latter he won by a decent, but declining margin of 57-43%).
His recruitment is somewhat bizarre. Perhaps he did it as a favor to state Dems, as he doesn’t have to give up his current job to run, but he isn’t doing himself a favor. Gainer will have to defend that he endorsed Zero in the 2008 Dem primary, which McKinley should highlight to the hilt. I expect Gainer will lose, and as a result, will also likely jeopardize his own ability to win statewide in 2016.
The one federal WV officeholder most endangered now is Nick Rahall. He won by an unimpressive 8% in 2012 in a district about as hostile to Zero as imaginable.
Rahall has a top opponent in State Sen. Evan Jenkins who switched parties and announced for Congress a few months ago. Smart boy, switching before the democrats fall in the State. Rahall called him a traitor and says he will continue to dance with those that brung him.
Background, Evans beat a Black Rat, Marie Redd, the first Black legislator in State History, in the 2002 primary. She had beaten an incumbent Republican in 1998.
Redd was the first Black woman Senator. But, WV had Black legislators (delegates) before. One, Republican Christopher Payne, was elected way back in 1896.
Yet another served from McDowell County back in 1928 (the first Black woman (and Republican) to serve in any legislative body in any state, believe it or not). She replaced her husband, another Black Republican.
Minnie Buckingham Harper
http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/259
Wow, WV, I never would have thought.
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