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DE-HD37: Special Election Tonight

by: James L.

Sat Sep 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM EDT


UPDATE: The GOP wins -- not a big surprise, since even the Obama-Biden ticket couldn't win this House district, but the GOP successfully averted giving the Democrats a supermajority.

Polls are set to close at 8pm Eastern for an open seat House special election in Delaware. We're looking at a GOP-held seat in conservative Sussex County that came open when its incumbent, Joe Booth, won a special election for a state Senate seat. Josh Goodman over at Ballot Box has a good rundown on the race, but the gist of it is that a win here for Team Blue would give the Democrats a supermajority in the Delaware House.

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DE-HD37: Special Election Tonight | 14 comments
FWIW, the district is somewhat friendlier than SD-19 was
HD-37 went for McCain by a 50.4 - 48.8 margin; SD-19 was more like 54-46 McCain.

On the other hand, Republican, Ruth Briggs King, has outspent the Democrat, Rob Robinson, 2-1 so far. King has been banking on TV ads to pull her over the top.

Also, don't necessarily depend on the board of elections to return results. During the SD-19 election they had some kind of technical malfunction and couldn't report numbers for hours, although they got out eventually through other channels. I'm hoping they've fixed whatever problem they had last time, but who knows.

Well that is an uphill battle
If McCain won an area in Delaware with Biden as VP in a great year for Dems, it really must be a conservative and Repub area.  
It would be comparable to the areas in the Chicago suburbs that McCain won.  (Obama won several GOP counties in the Chicago suburbs that no Democrat has won in ages.)
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Or ever
Slightly off topic, but Obama won Dupage County and Lake County among others...counties that last voted for a Democrat in the 1800s...before the existence of the Republican Party.

This is a definite uphill battle, even in the best of circumstances.  

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Wow
Even in 1964?
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He did win
lake.

But to give an idea of the shift, even he lost Bill Foster's district. I think "rock-ribbed" is the expression.  

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1/8 districts in
Ruth Briggs King is up 62-42. Exciting!
If I'm looking at the data right
It looks like this is a voting district that Obama beat McCain  204-128.
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3/8 in
King is up 698-411. Unless these are the Republican precincts, this one is over.
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4/8
901-523 King. The remaining precincts tied or went for Obama, but unless Robinson really got the vote out there, he's done for.
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6/8
1,506 - 996 King. She wins for sure.
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7/8
King - 1,995
Robinson - 1,505
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And the final precinct makes the total...
Ruth Briggs King - 2,429 (53.6%)
Rob Robinson - 2,105 (46.4%)

Good effort by Robinson, shame he didn't make it.

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Absentee Ballot Program?
is there a reason why there obviously wasnt one?
awww
This picture makes me laugh EVERYTIME I see it. Thank you James. Oh look... we're in Delaware... silence
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