Posted on 11/08/2005 5:28:44 PM PST by Jambe
WJR Radio has just broadcast that exit pole results for the Detroit mayoral race give the challenger Freeman Hendrix a 4 point victory over Kwame Kilpatrick.
Kilpatrick would be the first Detroit incumbent mayor since 1961 to be voted out of office.
Kilpartick is in his first term.
It is unknown what effect numerous charges of voter fraud in Detroit will have on the final results.
And last.
lol
Here we go again. Polsters instead of voters.
How about the City Clerk?
Don't get yer hopes up ... they haven't counted the "dead" votes yet!
Sounds great! But, I'm certain they haven't counted the dead voters yet.
An hour ago they were dead even ... hope this grows even further apart.
I love that saying. I saw it a few months ago (again about Kilpatrick) and it's still funny!
Looks like mac daddy ain't gonna be pimpin dem ho's no mo....
They're just switching democrats, no net gain.
Yeah, they can be a nuisance. You'd think some people would slow down once they die.
I seem to remember something happening that had to do with exit polls about a year ago.
Haha ... very good.
Oh, please be true!
I almost tripped over that damned exit pole.
It's a net gain in that Hendrix may actually be competent. The less the drag on the rest of the state the better.
Hey, you get that tree moved yet?
I heard Kwame said he was a new man since he shed his diamond stud earring ~LOL~
I know nothing about this race. Kwame Kilpatrick versus Freeman Hendrix sounds like trying to pick Mulsims over French. Can you help me here?
There's a guy at my church (Baptist), a deacon (Caucasion) who lives in Detroit and is in the same neighborhood association as Hendrix. I get the impression he's a major improvement if he wins.
I wonder if Kilpatrick and his machine are as thuggish and corrupt as Sharpe James in Newark. In any case, if these results are offician and Kilpatrick is out, I guess his organization didn't turn out enough votes.
Let's put it this way, when all of Kwame's friends and family who are on the city payroll for big $$$, get fired by Hendrix, the unemployement rate in Detroit will jump by 20%.
Ive still got a log laying across my bedroom but It did cut it back to the outside walls so I could tarp the hole to keep the wind and rain out.
The more I look at it the more I realize that somebody was looking out for us. It drove the wall between our bedroom and bathroom right through the floor.
Where's the French? I'm not an expert on name/nationality derivation, but help me here.
And this is the latest update.
Cue the theme song from "Night of the Living Dead" (if it had one).
For Kwame, it'd have to be a gangsta rap version.
Not so fast!!! Channel 2 (Fox) sez their exit polls have Kwame by 4.
The dead must have risen and voted.
Funny. According to WXYZ TV, Freman is leading by 59% of the vote, with 36% of the precients counted.
http://web.wxyz.com/vote2005/electionresults-detroitmayor.html
Who to believe...
between him and the city council, they destroyed any possibility of growth for the city. The major casinos bailed, the major investments for 06 super bowl bailed, so Kwayme just put faces on all the old abandonned buildings down town...
Total waste of the energy used for creation...
http://www.clickondetroit.com/politics/5282644/detail.html
Hendrix Leads In Early Race Results
Local 4 Exit Poll Shows Hendrix With 56 Percent, Kilpatrick With 44 Percent
POSTED: 8:53 pm EST November 8, 2005
UPDATED: 10:45 pm EST November 8, 2005
Challenger Freman Hendrix led incumbent Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick with nearly 40 percent of the ballots counted Tuesday, putting Kilpatrick at risk of becoming the first Detroit mayor since 1961 to be defeated for re-election.
With 38 percent of precincts reporting, Hendrix had 26,964 votes, or 58 percent, and Kilpatrick had 19,327 votes, or 42 percent.
A Local 4 exit poll shows Freman Hendrix leading incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick based on a telephone poll of people who said they voted.
The poll, by East Lansing-based Mitchell Research and Communications Inc. for WDIV and The Detroit News, showed Hendrix with 56 percent and Kilpatrick with 44 percent.
That survey interviewed 750 people by about 8:30 p.m. EST and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
The drama of Election Day also included action in court as the FBI said it was investigating allegations of wrongdoing involving absentee ballots and obtained an order to preserve at least 42,000 absentee ballots, applications and ballot envelopes.
The election comes as the nation's 11th-largest city struggles with poverty and decades of population decline. The next mayor will inherit a city facing a multimillion-dollar budget deficit and the possibility of financial receivership.
Four years after becoming one of the city's youngest mayors, Kilpatrick found himself asking voters for forgiveness -- and another chance -- after a scandal-plagued first term. Still, he sees himself at the helm of a city dealing with its problems and heading in the right direction.
Hendrix, who was deputy mayor under Kilpatrick's predecessor, made it a campaign refrain that he wouldn't embarrass the city if elected. He has focused attention to the city's troubled finances, laying the blame for much of it on Kilpatrick.
Hendrix, who topped Kilpatrick 44 percent to 34 percent in the nonpartisan primary in August, led in recent polls, but Kilpatrick gained ground as the election neared.
Meet the new boss,
Same as the old boss....
We won't get fooled AGAIN!!!
... and the dead rose from their graves and shuffled to the polling booths.
The Canuck socialist guv Jenny Grandstander is not innocent either. She supports the same sort of policies that keeps Detroit mired in decaying muck. She wouldn't have won without the ghetto crowd.
Cool bumpersticker.
Good one! And very apt.
Detroit's 300,000 vote margin for Kerry in 2004 overcame the 170,000 vote margin for Bush in the rest of the state and delivered Michigan to the Democrats. Now a judge has ordered the same city clerk who was in charge then to be removed from the absentee voter program because of substantiated fraud.
got that right...
Unless the Downtown, Midtown, Corktown, Indian Village, and Warrendale/Copper Corner sections of Detroit ALL reported first, I'm calling BS on Kwame's "comeback victory"
It is not he who votes that matters, it is he who counts the votes that matter.
Sorry, the "new mayor" is just the old mayor minus the earring. The only good thing to come out of this election is the defeat of Jackie Currie, the queen of voter fraud.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
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