Thune's lead down to 1600 votes [Update- Down To 135, 3 of 844 Precincts Remaining.]

SOS ^

[ambrose]

http://www.state.sd.us/sos/results/statwide.shtml

U S SENATE (L) EVANS KURT 2974 1 816 844 (D) JOHNSON TIM 160809 49 816 844 (R) THUNE JOHN 162492 50 816 844

[ambrose]

make that 1100 now...

[ambrose]

1400...

[goldstategop]

I guess South Dakotans like socialists to bring home the bacon in Congress. Though you have to wonder how much Timmy Johnson would bring for them with the Democrats in the political wilderness.

[patriciaruth]

Numbers? %precincts counted???

[ambrose]

here:

http://www.state.sd.us/sos/results/statwide.shtml

[ambrose]

What's left are some Indian reservations and Daschle's home county... not good.

[patriciaruth]

Oh, I see the number of precincts counted out of the total.

With the change in numbers, what are the precincts left?

[CityOnAHill]

Make that 1339:

U S SENATE
(L) EVANS KURT 2978
(D) JOHNSON TIM 161176
(R) THUNE JOHN 162515

[ambrose]

the Libertarian may cost the pubbies again.

[patriciaruth]

What's left are some Indian reservations and Daschle's home county... not good.

Holding back, eh? So they know how many they have to add before they send the "numbers" in?

*sigh*

I really hate the SOB's.

[PoisedWoman]

Let's hope Daschle's home county is as sick of him as we are. I don't want to have stayed up all night to watch the GOP lose this state!

[rwfromkansas]

Very bad news........looks like this one is the Dems to keep.

[fooman]

DEm dems BETTER NOT Be DOING MORE FRAUD!

[Wphile]

This was mentioned in this particular race some time ago . The libertarians have to get a clue!

[goldstategop]

I wouldn't make a concession speech just yet. If Thune's lead drops under 1,000 votes there will be a recount and the GOP isn't going to concede the seat without a fight. Its not over yet in SD.

[Congressman Billybob]

These are not useful numbers without also stating the percent of the vote now counted. Last figures on CNN showed Thune with a lead of 2,391, with 95% counted. The remaining 5% amounted to about 10,000 votes.

So at that point, Johnson had to take 62.5% of the remaining votes to come up to a tie. If your last figure of a Thune lead of 1,400 is with, say, 97% of the votes counted, then Johnson would need 61.7% of the remaining votes to tie Thune. He's not going to get that level of support from the remaining precincts.

More information, please, so we don't have to keep checking CNN.

Congressman Billybob

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[CityOnAHill]

The 2 major counties which have unreported precincts are Davison (14 precincts unreported) and Shannon (6 precincts unreported). The precincts which have reported in Davison county show 50-49 in favor of Johnson. The precincts which have reported in Shannon county show 91-9 (yes, that's 91% to 9%) in favor of Johnson. This race is going to get tighter.

[patriciaruth]

27 precincts left to go? They just have to make sure each one has Johnson 100 votes ahead of Thune before they finalize their vote counts now.

They know the drill.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

The dead voters often get to the polls very late.