Ain’t over ’til it’s over: Vote count/recount round-up; Update: Seattle Times declares Murray winner, Rossi concedes
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Most campaigns have turned out the lights and gone home. But two days after Election Day, there are many races across the country still too close to call and awaiting final vote tallies or recounts.
You know the biggies — Washington’s Murray/Rossi Senate race and Alaska’s Murkowski/Miller/write-in-a-palooza Senate race. But there are several others. Let me know if I’ve missed any.
Murray has widened her lead, but Rossi’s campaign manager reminds observers:
* Historically in Washington, the Republican candidates improve their percentages in each county in votes counted after Election Day, usually improving their margins by 2 to 3 percentage points.
* King County, which is providing most of Sen. Murray’s margin, accounts for 30.7% of all registered voters in the state. According to County Election reports, King County only has 26.7% of the remaining ballots left to count. The rest of the state, where Rossi has a comfortable lead, will count proportionately more ballots post-Election Day.
* Spokane County, where Rossi is currently in the lead by more than 50%, still has at least 21.6% of the remaining ballots left to process, with more coming in.
* Rossi is currently leading in Pierce County by nearly 2,500 votes
* According to the Secretary of State, there are still over 508,000 estimated ballots left to process statewide.
Rossi’s campaign is also asking for help:
Ballot rehab is happening. We need to contact Republican voters whose ballots have been rejected for various reasons, to ensure their ballot is properly counted. At this point, over 17,000 ballots have been rejected for one reason or another. Not all of those will be Republican ballots but some will be and we can make serious gains. We are less that 1% behind and need all the help we can muster over the next 72 hours to make this happen. If you are available to help or know of folks who are available to help, please email Russel Johnson from Dino Rossi’s campaign.
Russell Johnson
Field Coordinator
Dino Rossi for Senate
(425) 451-2010
Another nailbiter in Washington state: the 2nd congressional district race.
Incumbent Democrat Rep. Rick Larsen edged ahead of Snohomish County Councilman John Koster by 507 votes Wednesday in the race for the 2nd Congressional District seat. With almost 195,000 ballots counted, Larsen led 50.13 to 49.87 percent.
Larsen trailed in Tuesday night’s initial returns by a little more than 1,400 votes, and it appeared that Koster would ride the Republican wave that was ousting Democratic incumbents across the nation.
A win by Koster would give Republicans a 5-4 majority in the state’s congressional delegation for the first time since 1998.
And that could still happen. Koster led in Snohomish County, the district’s most populous, as well as Island and Skagit counties. Larsen led in Whatcom, San Juan, and the tiny area of King County that’s part of the 2nd District.
In Alaska, Senate campaigns are lawyering up. Via The Hill:
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and his Senate Conservatives Fund, which funneled several million dollars to Tea Party-backed Senate candidates this cycle, is ready to help Joe Miller fight Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s high-flying legal team in Alaska.
The political action committee is currently exploring exactly how it can assist Miller, the Republican nominee, on the fundraising front in what is expected to be a costly and drawn-out ballot-counting process.
Miller is likely to need the help since he’ll be up against a top-notch legal team assembled by Murkowski, who ran as a write-in candidate after she lost the GOP primary to Miller. The incumbent’s legal efforts will be led by GOP heavyweight Ben Ginsberg, who played a leading role in the recount effort in Florida on behalf of then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush (R) in 2000.
As it stands now, the “write-in” category leads Miller’s vote total by 7 percent. The assumption is that the vast majority of those write-in votes were cast for Murkowski, but Miller’s camp is banking on the possibility that many of them could be declared invalid.
If ballots do not spell Murkowski’s name correctly or cast some doubt as to the intent of the voter, Miller’s camp will likely argue that those votes should be invalidated.
In Arizona’s 7th CD, our GOP upstart Ruth McClung is still fighting the good fight against open-borders extremist Raul Grijalva, who declared victory despite an incomplete ballot count:
Grijalva leads Republican challenger Ruth McClung by about 3,500 votes, with an unknown number of late-arriving absentee votes still to be counted.
McClung’s spokesman said she’s not going anywhere until election officials finish their work.
“She won’t be conceding until all those votes are counted,” spokesman Sam Stone said.
In Arizona’s 8th CD, GOP challenger Jesse Kelly is battling incumbent Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a virtual tie:
With thousands of Pima County ballots still to be counted, Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords holds a narrow one-point lead over GOP challenger Jesse Kelly in CD 8. At noon Thursday, Giffords led by 2,300 votes.
Giffords’ campaign staff expressed confidence that the lead would hold, as her lead in early ballots was about 10,000 votes, and a significant number of early ballots were turned in at polling places on Tuesday.
“This election is going to go down in history as one of the angriest,” Giffords told the Democratic crowd around 10 p.m. “But while other campaigns across the country stooped to levels lower than we have ever seen before, our campaign stood up for the people.”
“It looks like it’s going to be tight like we thought,” Kelly told a thinning crowd of Republicans gathered at the Doubletree Hotel around 9 p.m., “but I think we’re going to do it.”
In North Carolina, infamous Democrat Rep. Bob Etheridge refuses to concede to newcomer GOP challenger Renee Ellmers. He’s gearing up for a recount:
While most races were decided Tuesday night, 2nd District Congressman Bob Etheridge is still refusing to concede in his race with Republican Renee Ellmers. He said Wednesday that he is prepared to call for a recount.
“As of right now, where the votes stands is the margin is less than 1 percent, which is the threshold for recount. I have notified the Board of Elections that it is my intent to request a recount if the margin is less than 1 percent when all the votes are counted,” said Etheridge.
Elections officials say they should finish up the count by November 12th. If the margin separating Etheridge and Ellmers is within 1 percent, a recount will be held. The results will be certified when the State Board of Elections meets November 23rd.
Frank J. notes:
We still don’t know exactly how many seats the Republicans have gained in the House as some are still being counted, and one that was counted they’re still going after: Renee Ellmers win over Bob “Who are you?!” Etheridge. The vote margin could be small enough to trigger a recount so Ellmers may need our support as Etheridge tries to strangle out a few more votes. Hopefully Bob Etheridge can be defeated for good soon. Some politicians are arrogant and out of touch, but Bob Etheridge is arrogant and TOUCHES WAY TOO MUCH!
Heh. Help the Ellmers campaign here — because Washington DC Republicans won’t:
Dear Supporters,
Election night, after the ten counties in my district had reported their votes, I led Bob Etheridge by 2,100 votes. (That number is crucial because under North Carolina law Congressman Etheridge is not entitled to an ‘automatic recount’ if he trails by more than 1% – or 1,888 votes.)
Then, yesterday afternoon – unexpectedly – the vote totals changed. The State Board of Elections reported my lead had dropped to 1,600 votes. Two hours later Bob Etheridge announced he intended to call for a recount.
As a result, last night my campaign began hiring attorneys – eleven attorneys in all. One in each county to monitor each recount and an attorney to work with the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
Right now, our best estimate of the minimum cost we face is $50,000. But, of course, my campaign spent every penny we had before the election.
Yesterday, we appealed to the National Republican Congressional Committee for support, asking if they could contribute to help pay the costs of this recount. Their answer, unfortunately, was, No – that we would have to raise the money to pay for the recount ourselves.
I was afraid that would be their answer. Months ago, I went to Washington and asked the National Republican Congressional Committee and many conservative leaders to help my campaign. Many conservative groups – like the Susan B. Anthony List, Concerned Women of America, Freedom Works, and Sarah Palin’s Sarah PAC all helped, but the NRCC declined. Later, they did support other campaigns in North Carolina – which, unfortunately, lost – but we never received their support. In fact, their spokesman told the press “that the campaign wasn’t ready for prime time” – which actually made it even harder for us to raise money. So, I am doubtful we will get support from the NRCC to help with the expense of the recount.
Right now, I lead Bob Etheridge by 1,600 votes. That lead should hold up. But we can’t take anything for granted. We must leave no stone unturned to insure a fair recount. We cannot allow the kind of mishap that happened in Minnesota – when Al Franken was elected – to repeat itself in North Carolina.
This morning my campaign manager set up a special fund – Renee Ellmers for Congress Recount Fund – to pay for the recount. I never dreamed I’d be asking you for another donation two days after the election – but I need to raise $50,000 ‘yesterday.’ The maximum you may give is $2,400. Each contribution – whatever the amount, whether it’s $25, $250, or $500 – is crucial and will be deeply appreciated. Could you send a donation and mail it today? Or, better still, click here, to give on my website.
I apologize for asking for another gift so soon – but I am sure you understand.
As ever, thank you and best wishes.
Renee Ellmers
Politico has profiles of other contested races, including California 11th District (Harmer/McNerney); Virginia 11th District (Fimian/Connolly); Kentucky 6th District (Chandler/Barr); Texas 27th District (Farenthold/Ortiz); and Illinois 8th District (Walsh/Bean).
Jim Geraghty has the unresolved races sorted by GOP leads/deficits.
In Minnesota, they’re bracing for a prolonged recount on the governor’s race. Shades of Franken/Coleman:
Lightning never strikes twice, but Minnesotans should brace themselves for yet another recount, this time in the gubernatorial contest between Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Representative Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer.
While results are currently still unofficial, the less than one-half of a percentage point difference in the vote tally may be grounds for an automatic recount.
However, elections officials throughout the state will have to recheck the votes and the state canvassing board is scheduled to confirm the results later this month. If the board finds that the vote remains extremely close, it will call for a recount.
And the governor’s race is still up in the air in Connecticut:
Connecticut’s top election official said Thursday she did not have the final vote totals yet in the disputed governor’s race because of a delay in the state’s largest city. Both Democrat Dan Malloy and Republican Tom Foley have claimed victory in Tuesday’s closely contested election.
Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz had intended to announce the final unofficial tally Thursday afternoon. Instead, she said she still had not received the final count from Bridgeport, which was due by 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
“We don’t know when we’re going to receive their numbers,” Bysiewicz said.
Relying on a combination of unofficial returns from cities and towns and unofficial tallies she received over the phone, Bysiewicz announced Wednesday that Malloy had defeated Foley by more than 3,000 votes out of more than 1.1 million cast.
Unofficial results posted on the secretary of the state’s website from 168 of 169 cities and towns show Foley with 556,787 votes on the Republican line, Malloy with 548,378 from the Democratic and Working Families Party lines; and Independent Tom Marsh with 17,543 votes. The list does not include vote tallies from Bridgeport, which was expected to tilt strongly in favor of Malloy.
Sandi Ayala, the Democratic registrar of voters in Bridgeport, said Thursday that the vote-counting is done, but she declined to release the tallies and wouldn’t say why the results haven’t been given to Bysiewicz.
Malloy said Wednesday that his numbers show he won by at least 11,000 votes, while Foley said his numbers showed him winning by just under 2,000 votes.
Stay tuned…
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Update: Two more to watch…
Republican Ed Martin is demanding an investigation of possible voter fraud after narrowly losing the election for Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District to Democratic incumbent Rep. Russ Carnahan. Martin said Wednesday he will send a formal request for the investigation to Carnahan’s sister, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan. Martin laid out a list of concerns, including a late-night surge of Carnahan votes from urban St. Louis and problems with providing provisional ballots to voters. “There are questions that remain today,” Martin said. “We think right now there is some reason to be concerned.”
When Wayne County reported its preliminary results for the first time Wednesday evening, Ann Marie Buerkle edged ahead of incumbent Dan Maffei in the race for the 25th District Congressional seat. Now, both candidates and their parties are awaiting the tally of absentee ballots that hold the answer to their political futures.
Wayne County’s results were delayed almost a day by a problem with the way poll workers reported totals from the new voting machines. The confusion came when they tried to compile data from the receipts printed by the ImageCast systems. When the preliminary results were finally reported, Buerkle, the Republican, overcame the approximately 3,000 vote lead Maffei, the Democrat, held based on results from other counties. Her current lead, however, is even smaller: just 700 votes.
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Update 8:30pm Eastern Seattle Times declares Patty Murray the Senate winner…
Sen. Patty Murray has won a fourth term, riding a wave of strong Democratic support in King County to defeat Republican challenger Dino Rossi.
As of Thursday evening, Murray was leading Rossi by more than 45,000 votes, taking 51 percent to Rossi’s 49 percent. That’s up from a 14,000-vote lead on Election Day.
According to a Seattle Times analysis, Rossi would need to get about 54 percent of the estimated 591,000 uncounted ballots statewide to overcome Murray’s lead.
But nearly 264,000 of those ballots are in King County. Murray’s already commanding lead there has only expanded since Election Day. She took 68 percent of the 69,000 King County ballots counted Thursday.
To overcome King County’s heavy support for Murray, Rossi would have to take about two-thirds of the remaining ballots in the rest of the state. So far he’s received 53.2 percent of those non-King County votes.
Update 9:20pm Eastern Rossi concedes.
Here is his statement:
“This evening, I called Senator Murray to offer my congratulations on her re-election to the U.S. Senate.
“I ran for the Senate because I believe we need a basic course correction from where Washington, D.C. has been taking us and to make sure this country is as free, as strong and as prosperous in the future as it has been in the past to preserve the best of America for future generations.
“That was a message that found a very receptive audience all across this state, though not quite receptive enough.
“We’re sending at least one new person, maybe two, to Congress to represent Washington State. We elected a host of new people to the state legislature — all on the message of controlling spending and helping the private sector grow, saying no to government overreach and confronting some very difficult challenges in front of us.
You’ve heard me say during this campaign that the problems we face are too big for one political party. They are, and I can say that with absolute certainty.
“It is my hope that the new House and Senate will address them seriously, responsibly, and in a bipartisan way. I hope the President and Senate Democrats will join the new House majority to face these problems head on rather than leaving them for the next Congress or the next generation.
“My hope going forward is that our representatives in Washington, D.C. will be thinking about how an issue affects Bellevue, Bellingham or Bingen, not the D.C. Beltway.
“I hope they will be thinking about the small business owners struggling to stay open and the people that work there who are trying to pay their mortgage and feed their kids. 0 I hope the things that are done in D.C. make it easier for these folks, not harder.
The lesson I leave you with is one we learned as kids: we’re all in this together. If Washington, D.C. doesn’t act to help the economy grow and solve this massive ‘spending and debt, it’s going to hurt us all. It won’t distinguish by political party.
Let me close with one more heartfelt thank you to the people of our state. Thank you for letting me have an honest, straightforward discussion with you about our future.
“God bless you, our country, and this wonderful state we call home.”
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Hey, don’t forget Minnesota! We are having a recount for Governor. Here we go again. I know how it will turn out. Our Secty of State is a liberal. Sigh.
Thanks. Added that one. Shades of Franken/Coleman. Ugh.
This is CRAZY! Why can’t we install “ATM” technology for voting to eliminate all this error and late night second guessing? If it’s good enough for banking it’s good enough for voting! Give the contract to Gates or something but do it! When I voted Tuesday this new three step fill out the form and slip it into the “fax” machine took four times longer than the lever machines!!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Republicans in Washington St. should loudly reject any ballots “found” after the election (in desk drawers, car trunks, bus stations, etc.) so that the election doesn’t become Franken’d. King County has a history of close elections being settled after “missing” ballots are found.
That’s because they don’t know how many “miracle ballots” they will need until all the other cities and towns have been counted.
All the Dem zombies haven’t had their votes counted yet… you just THOUGHT Halloween was over.
In Nevada some machines were pre-programmed for Reid. And supposedly the SEIU runs the machines.
Same garbage is being pulled in the Renee Ellmers win over Bob ‘hoo’re yew?’ Etheridge.
SCREAM. BLOODY. MURDER.
FYI: No problems here in ID-1, where faux conservative phony Walt
GimmickMinnick was soundly beaten by Raul Labrador, a family man, attorney and small business owner who is as conservative as they come.Good luck to all the other “right” candidates!
In this case, it isn’t who votes that counts, its who preprograms the votes. Electronic voting ain’t what it’s cracked up to be. Nothing beats voting, in person, with ID to verify.
And whereas, generally the GOP plays fair….Dems play to win, by any and all means, fair or crooked, necessary. Whatever they are allowed to get away with.
Apparently no recount for governor of Oregon, but their should be. We had one county with 3500 votes from voters who had no ID whatsover, not even a utility bill or pay voucher.
Everybody knows the recount’s not over until the Democrat wins.
In Connecticut, Democrat officials just “found” another bag of uncounted ballots in Bridgeport.
How come this only happens in towns, cities and states run by Democrats?
Yeah, and don’t forget the Dems sent in to orchestrate the recount for Franken are the same ones who helped Christine Gregoire defeat Dino Rossi in the 2004 gubenatorial race.
Back yer cars up, all you GOP’ers! Everyone knows the winning ballots are always “found” in the trunk!
Because they want to be absolutely certain those towns, cities and states go on being run by Democrats. And because silly Republicans insist on playing by the rules….usually made up or changed as needed by Dems.
I know it’s a smaller position, but Republican Rob Sharpe edged out incumbant Democrat Pat Nadolski for District Attorney of Alamance County, NC by just 42 votes out of 40,000. There are still a few hundred provisional votes to be considered, however, even before a recount is ordered. So it’s still very much anybody’s race.
What makes this particularly telling, though, is that if Sharpe wins he would become the first Republican DA of Alamance County… ever.
It’s 4:15 pm here in Az, and Jesse Kelly’s facebook page just asked for volunteers to observe the counting. It’s a 200 mile round trip for me, and I’m not felling that well, or I’d be there. He’s actually 9/10ths of a percent behind her. I just pray he wins. She’s such a liar.
True that!
I expect Ed Martin, in Missouri, has a snowball in hells chance of winning if he can get his opponent’s sister to recount the votes. I wonder who she will pick: one for Martin, two for Russie. Two for Martin, 3 for Russie. After all, blood is thicker than water.
These recounts seem to follow a pattern. They count and recount until the Democrat wins.
And if they don’t, they’ll find enough ballots to make the Democrat win.
Victory, Venezuelan style.
Any time that races are thisclose, you always wonder who’s doing the counting/recounting and is there a bipartisan group of observers making sure that there is no dirty pool. I fear that I already know the answer…
Require valid photo ID with current address and no more absentee ballots except for military. Can’t get to your precinct on voting day, too friggin bad, you didn’t try hard enough!
On November 4th, 2010 at 7:50 pm, Virginia Patriot said:
Serious Question:
Let’s go back to paper ballots (in English only) and only voting in person on election day. No mail ins.
We may have a right to vote but there of plenty of people who I would rather didn’t vote. If people won’t make it a point to vote on election day in person, they probably aren’t very serious to begin with. They don’t deserve a say.
Republican Van Tran is also waiting for absentee ballots to be counted in California’s 47th Congressional District.
http://www.voiceofoc.org/blogs/article_220d9f2e-e7b7-11df-a828-001cc4c03286.html
Democrat Rep. Loretta Sanchez is ahead by 5,600 votes as of today.
But Van Tran’s campaign says:
The Attorney General race in California is too close to call until all of the absentee ballots are counted.
As of today,
Republican Steve Cooley had 3,298,235 votes or 45.8%.
Democrat Kamala Harris (Obama’s friend from San Francisco) had 3,307,599 votes or 45.9%.
The difference is only 9,364 votes statewide.
Given all of the other Democrats who won elections for California state offices, having a Republican Attorney General is CRITICAL!
You can monitor the results for this race daily here:
http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/attorney-general/
*Too bad for Rossi, a good man who would have helped the country survive as a Senator.
*Too bad for the state of Washington, for, as like Nazi Pelosi, they have themselves a profoundly stupid person representing them in D.C.!
I used to say “If you don’t vote, don’t complain.”
Now I say “If you vote Democrat, don’t complain.”
Dino Rossi sounded great to me in interviews. Smart, conservative, runs a business… It is absolutely unbelievable to me that Washington state would put that idiot Murray back again.
All you Democrats in Washington can go to hell. You are not Americans.
In WA state we can thank Sarah Palin’s lack of support for the libs winning.
Arrrrgh.
Hadenough – Really? What was her problem with Rossi? He sounded great to me.
that’s two races Rossi has had stolen from him, IMO Washington and America have lost the services of a good, solid American.
Dems have no integrity what so ever, they steal, cheat, lie what ever it takes.
Plus pictured I.D. at time of registration and voting.
I agree. I hate early voting. Far too much chance for democrats to cheat. I always go ON election day around 2pm. Never a line.
Oregon has mailin voting, talk about an opening for fraud.
Unless we take serious measures to stop vote fraud we’re going to keep seeing results like this. Foreigners deciding who represents “We The People”.
We’re making a joke of our country.
Etheridge is the guy who physicalauy assulted a journalist who was asking him questions.
Will Etheridge go postal if he does not get his way?
Better make sure that the opponent is wearing anti-ballistic material and that someone tastes the food before he eats.
I don’t trust the Democrats-leftists on fraction of a millimeter.
They have proven themselves to be violent, hate filled, intolerant, racist, bigoted, and supportive of deviant behavior, let alone dishonest and cheaters, liars, and rabid.
FYI Michelle, Democrats just found a bag of magically appearing uncounted ballots in the Connecticut governors race:
Heh, I’m sure there’s perfect innocent explanation, like rank incompetence on the part of election officials involved here.
Speaking of “Ain’t over ’til it’s over”…
A serious Constitutional issue is now on the Supreme Court Docket.
The attorney representing that case has an excellent new post up:
Aren’t you required to know English in order to become a citizen?
If the answer is “yes”, and you have to be a citizen to vote, then…
Why do we have ballots in any language other than English?
George Washington, John Jay, and Vattel’s Definition of “Natural Born Citizen”
The Republican Party in Washington State needs to cut ties with Dino Rossi. Yes, he’s conservative and talks a good game, but this is the second time he’s “lost an election under questionable circumstances and the second time he “graciously” conceded. The guy doesn’t have the guts to fight.
IL-08, Walsh/Bean. Gap narrowed to 365 in favor of Walsh. Part of the district extends into C(r)ook County, they counted some absentees today and according to The Daily Herald Bean gained 188 votes. I did the math and she is pulling 70%??? When she was doing around 54% in regular voting, something smells rotten. Also the AP called the governors race for Quinn, that stinks too, but at least the Mob Banker is unemployed. And Phil Hare is out, along with Foster and Halverson. After a short 2 years we turned our exurbs back to red, if Bean goes down, we hit the trifecta.
Rossi conceding at this point is r-i-d-i-c-u-l-o-u-s. My friend was crunching the numbers and he is trending upwards, even in King County (the liberal dictators of this state). I know lots of people who have checked on their ballots from across the state and seen that their ballots haven’t even been counted. They feel betrayed, as in why should they even vote if their vote isn’t counted before he concedes. His heart obviously wasn’t in it or he would have waited to concede at the point where it was impossible to win. What a huge let down.
Sarah Palin nor anyone else would ever be able to sway liberal King County. This is where elections are decided in WA, and if they don’t get enough (D) votes then they will just cheat like hell.
Remember people, if it’s not close they can’t cheat.
Well election reform must be at the top of the GOP agenda. Now Quinn wins in Illinois. All I have to say is this: No bailouts. Let the Dems figure out how to run the state. The mood of the electorate is no taxes. So these Governors (Illinois, Oregon, New York, California) will have to get the unions to give up the ridiculous pensions that are bankrupting the states. If they can’t, file bankruptcy. The GOP in the house should in no way enable these blue states.
That was my impression watching him. The guy seems to have a “Kick Me” sign on his back. He is an enabler.
Why wasn’t he charged with assault?
OH LOOK I found a bag of votes…or a box of votes. Where did you find them?….doesn’t matter these are really really votes. And we are all amazed…..again…..that the “found” votes are mostly for the democrat, who was loosing…….So next election we will complain about voter fraud BEFORE the election and go back to sleep as soon as the poles close……
I had told MM a few weeks ago not to count on Rossi winning WA ST. He is a good guy, but he just does not know how to fight for what he wants. He let a few opportunities pass him bye, like the uncovering of Patty Murray telling a high school class that Osama Bin Laden was popular in Afghanistan because he built daycares and schools (and that was 6 months after 9/11) or when it was uncovered that the Dem’s were using illigal aliens to doorbell for Patty Murray.
WA ST is a hard state for an R to win, because of King County, but when you do not even appear to be fighting for it, you cannot expect anything else but a loss.
Believe it or not, in WA ST Sarah Palin’s support would actually hurt not help. Sure, she would help to get out the Conservative vote (but they got out anyway), but she would also motivate the ultra lib King County voters to get out and vote too (they become completely unhinged at the thought of her. If you mention her name to a lib in).
Hangfire, the people responsible for the Franken debacle were the very same people who helped Christine Gregoire in her 2004 Gubenatorial election over Rossi. People in this state were up in arms over the ballot’s being “found”, but ultimately the courts decided that one in such a way as to make it next to impossible to challenge election results.
The judge determined that there were more than 1000 (if memeory serves me closer to 2000) illegal votes in the 2004 elelction (Gregoire was declared the winner, after two recounts, by 133 votes). The judge went onto say that unless the people who voted illegally could be dragged into court and testify to whom they illegally voted for (which is illegal seeing that under the 5th ammendment you cannot force anyone to testify under oath when it would be self increminating)then the illegal votes would have to stand.
When it comes to sleazy dems, I dont trust anything they do or say. They would fix an election in a heartbeat to keep power.
I will be following the future Sec’y of State in Kansas, Kris Kobach as he attacks voter fraud.
Fraud was one of the things he ran/won on. (His other claim to fame is his assistance w/ Arizona’s immigration law.)
Please follow Kansas in the months ahead.
Remarkable how the close ones seem to go to the leftist lately.
And don’t forget AZ-7. Not sure if that’s been resolved. No doubt Mexico’s Finest US Congressman rallied the troops and found some “extra votes” for himself.
From the American Spectator:
Brilliant. Nov 2 is so yesterday. Message to Ellmer from the NRC: Sorry, we’re saving up for 2012 now.
I heard some uncounted ballots were just found in a car trunk in Chihuahua.
May as well include California in this statement as well! Boxer and Brown win…..AGAIN?!?!?
And with Cali. basically teeterin on the brink of economic collapse? Haviogn two tax-and-spend liberals strengthening the already strenuous, back-breaking tax-and-spend laws in California is somehow going to fix everything?
Californians – if you want to secede and form your own country, trust me, we’ll be glad to letcha’ go….in fact, include Oregon and Washington in that plan, too, because if they don’t, what will be known as the West Coast Economic Melt-Down is going to be bailed (under executive order, of course) by the rest of us taxpatyers, who’ll have ot foot the bill.
My Take on Rossi: How hard did he fight in the first governor’s race where Gregoire “won”? Did he not go all the way to the courts to have a decision? So what if he conceded? Maybe the man didn’t want to take it all that far again. Perhaps he knows the Democratic Machine in Washington well enough to know it was a lose-lose situation either way, and that with Patty Murray up, there would likely be no fair, full count or recount.
I do not fault him. He is showing he is a class act with his concession, and he will get a great reward for his character. The Good Lord always finds a way to reward men such as him. Remember hwne Ashcroft lost by a similar amount of votes – even closer – to the late Mel Carnahan? Rather than pulling the same trick that Gore pulled, Ashcroft conceded the election…and Ashcroft wound up in a greater position later: United States Attorney General. I believe the same thing will happen to Dino Rossi. His efforts, and his character, will not go unrewarded.