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Atlanta Mayoral Race Live Blog (UPDATE Reed certified as victor; Norwood wants recount)

by: fitchfan28

Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 9:36 PM EST


Tonight is the mayoral election runoff for the city of Atlanta. Please feel free to post results below in the comments section and how you feel the night is going.

I found an excellent website for the results from the Fulton County board of elections. In case you're wondering I consider Reed to be the better candidate in this nonpartisan race because he was an excellent Democratic state senator and he got the endorsement from many top Democrats in the state like Former Governor Roy Barnes, 2008 US Senate Candidate Jim Martin and others.

As of 9:33 with 33 percent reporting:

Reed at 56.24%

Norwood at 43.76%

 Please feel free to update results for any other race in GA you see as well.

UPDATE: Getting tighter

As of 9:57

Reed at 53.88%

Norwood at 46.12%

UPDATE: Reed declares victory with 50.46 percent of the vote. He's just below the 1 point margin of victory needed to avoid a runoff so it's unclear if this is over completely but it looks like Reed has won it.

 UPDATE (12/05): Reed today was certified as the winner in the runoff but because his lead is less than 1 percent Norwood is allowed the option of a recount which she is requesting.

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Atlanta Mayoral Race Live Blog (UPDATE Reed certified as victor; Norwood wants recount) | 75 comments
37.27% reporting
REED: 56.24%

Norwood: 43.76%

We lost HD-141
Hopefully, Bell will win HD-58.

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
Yeah that was sad
Bell is up 56-44 as of right now.
[ Parent ]
Which party
Do these seats currently belong to?
[ Parent ]
HD 58 is a DEM-DEM runoff, HD 141 was held by a DEM
But the victor is a DEM leaning independent who I think will caucus with us.  
[ Parent ]
HD-141 was ours. The independent won it.
HD-58 is ours no matter what.  Simone Bell is just a good progressive from what I've seen.  

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[ Parent ]
Bell would be the first lesbian black woman elected to the state house
n/t
[ Parent ]
First gay minority, period. To either house.
And only the second gay member of the state legislature ever.

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
[ Parent ]
Read up on her
Very impressive background.  Sounds like a great progressive!

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/Ca...

For more than 20 years, Simone has worked as an activist and advocate in Atlanta and across the south. She has tackled a broad range of issues including workplace equality, access to affordable healthcare, fighting HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination, safe schools for all children, youth empowerment and women's issues.

As the representative for Georgia's 58th district, Simone will bring her experience working across broad coalitions to the Georgia House. She's eager to communicate with her constituents about the important decisions facing their area and work with them to provide the best outcome possible.

Simone has extensive credentials as an advocate for the LGBT community, which will serve her well when she represents several high-density LGBT areas in her district. She is a former community educator for Lambda Legal's southern region office, and has also worked at the Atlanta Lesbian Health Initiative. Furthermore, she has participated in ADORE, a college based organization developed to support LGBT students of color at Agnes Scott College, as well as ZAMI, Atlanta's premier organization for Lesbians of African descent.


[ Parent ]
Unless the remaining precinct is
much bigger than the others, and they hate her there, she's got this.  
[ Parent ]
I THINK she lives in the Fulton part of the district.
And I know her opponent (who's not necessarily bad, just too much of a blank slate) is from Dekalb, which is almost completely done.

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[ Parent ]
She's won.
I've been looking at the SoS's website, where Fulton is running behind.  The Fulton page shows Fulton almost done with Bell having a 300 vote lead there.  She's only losing by about 80 votes in DeKalb, which is done other than absentees and canvassing (which won't change much).  

I'm calling it: Simone Bell has won.  Georgia just elected its first gay ethnic minority to the state legislature.

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[ Parent ]
38.5% reporting
Reed: 56.89%

Norwood: 43.11%

57-43
38.51% reporting
41.61 reporting
Reed up 57-43.
Looking good
So long as it isn't just AA precincts reporting.
[ Parent ]
Along the right side it says which preciencts are reporting
Based upon my limited knowledge of ATL it seems it's a little more of the AA precincts but I think there's definitely a lot of Norwood friendly precincts as well.
[ Parent ]
Pulling away
45.34% reporting

MARY NORWOOD 11282 42.62%
KASIM REED 15192 57.38%  

Increasing gap
52.17% reporting

MARY NORWOOD 14737 46.12%
KASIM REED 17219 53.88%  

Or even decreasing

[ Parent ]
Decreasing?

[ Parent ]
56.52% reporting
53.5 REED

46.5 NORWOOD

Does that include the DeKalb portions?


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[ Parent ]
Probably not that's the Fulton website
I've heard the Dekalb website sucks. Appartently you have to download PDFs.
[ Parent ]
It is a consolidate website of Dekalb and Fulton for ATL Mayor race
Just noticed that.
[ Parent ]
Damnit the website's crashing

From here
http://projects.ajc.com/electi...

Kasim Reed  21,122 53%  
Mary Norwood  18,727 47%  

Updated Dec-01-2009 10:02 PM 57%  

[ Parent ]
Website back up! So is REED!
Reed 54

Norwood 46

That was at 62.73% reporting
n/t
[ Parent ]
Arg the website is screwy but if correct
Reed is at 60 percent with 70% reporting?!!
So, why does Norwood suck?
Only substantive argument I have heard is "she's not black."

Could someone elaborate. I know she's not a deep throated progressive liberal, but is Reed?

And more importantly (to me) are both/either marketable in statewide races in the future?

I'm kinda rooting for Norwood until I hear a good argument as to why Reed is awesome.

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26

Reed is very marketable

At a UGA Young Democrats meeting, AJC's head Political reporter Jim Galloway said he could definitely see Kasim Reed winning statewide in the next few cycles and also said that Reed encouraging black turnout would be critical to GA DEM's 2010 success and as I stated above Reed has been endorsed by prominent GA Democrats like Roy Barnes and Jim Martin. I know both Barnes and Martin and I trust their opinions very highly.


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This is a good argument.


26, Male, Democrat, TX-26
[ Parent ]
She's not a Democrat.
Despite being called one for quite a while, she finally let the cat out of the bag that she's an indy.  And if I remember correctly, she has a history of voting Republican as well.

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[ Parent ]
This is not a good argument.


26, Male, Democrat, TX-26
[ Parent ]
How so?


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[ Parent ]
You tore down your opponent
Without propping yourself up.

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26
[ Parent ]
Probably
Because you're leaving out some fairly important information. You leave out who she's said she voted for and also how she's listed in the party database.

http://www.marynorwoodformayor...

[ Parent ]
Yet also also frequently voted in Republican primaries and runoffs
And originally said she "couldn't remember" if she voted for Bush.  And again called herself an independent.

http://blogs.ajc.com/political...

Anways, Reed is unquestionably a Democrat, a former state senator elected as a Democrat.  He has received good to excellent ratings from the Georgia League of Conservation Voters. He was given an F by the NRA.  He voted against the gay marriage ban.

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.

[ Parent ]
Yes
She does call herself an Independent, I didn't know she's ever said anything other than that.

Reed: "I have my own religious beliefs I am working through.   I do not support gay marriage but i do believe in full legal equality for gay couples.  I believe they should have every legal benefit that married couples have in the state of Georgia,"

[ Parent ]
If you want to run statewide in GA that's a good stance
Pretty similar to Obama's honestly.  
[ Parent ]
Statewide
Remember when Franklin was considered the rising star in our party? If Reed does win he'll have to navigate some tough waters in Atlanta. Look at Campbell and Franklin.
[ Parent ]
GA isn't quite there yet
So Franklin couldn't quite win statewide yet but yeah there were some issues in ATL in the past few years not entirely her fault.
[ Parent ]
Right
Oh I don't think she could have won statewide and I'm not commenting on what she caused or did not cause because I don't know enough about Atlanta's problems, I'm just saying that both Campbell and Franklin were considered shining stars and possible statewide candidates and suddenly both fell into problems.

We can both sit here and talk about Reed being a possible statewide candidate, but the position he's probably about to jump into does not look like a great springboard for a statewide position!

Reed would not be my choice for statewide office. Obviously I'd prefer Baker, Bishop, or Thurmond.

[ Parent ]
I think it could be a springboard
If he improves the situation in Atlanta, which I don't really see how he couldn't considering how bad the economy is right now, then I think he could have an attractive profile for statewide office (bring Atlanta back from like a phoenix or something).

I think we will disagree here but I prefer a metro ATL based campaign rather than a quixotic bid for rural white voters and I think with metro ATL's changing demographics Reed provides the right profile for that.

[ Parent ]
It's Possible
Great point, he could turn things around.

Yeah, we do disagree on the route to victory. As far as the comment about rural whites, blah. Running a campaign that's simply about Atlanta and ignoring the rest of the state is a perfect recipe.... for failure.

I think the old coalition can be rebuilt to an extent, obviously with a few differences.

[ Parent ]
Great
Now I want to Phoenix Arizona crash and burn for a cycle only so it rebounds and someone makes a tv ad with a Phoenix flying up saying "we have returned!"

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26
[ Parent ]
Also
Look at this:
http://blogs.ajc.com/political...

I mean, if Norwood attending one GOP Convention is a big deal, certainly this is a big deal too, right?

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Progressive
Socially I'd say that Norwood is to the left of Reed. She's a staunch proponent of gay rights and has the support of many LGBT Democrats.

Fiscally I think she's more in the middle.

Statewide? I seriously doubt either could be successful statewide as they'd probably both be well to the left of the average non-Atlanta voter. Reed would have the edge though since he's been active in the Democratic Party.

[ Parent ]
Maybe in a few cycles
Reed could definitely win statewide if GA's AA percent goes up to about 35 percent which is possible by probably 2018 or so.
[ Parent ]
True
Good point, by then he probably could. He's known for working across the aisle too, look at the GOP state reps that came out for him.

Reed would be hard to peg as an ideologue.  

[ Parent ]
Latest
Kasim Reed  27,308 54%  
Mary Norwood  23,380 46%  

Updated Dec-01-2009 10:23 PM 68% reporting (116 of 170 precincts)  

Now
Kasim Reed  30,565 53%  
Mary Norwood  26,770 47%  

Updated Dec-01-2009 10:28 PM 77% reporting (125 of 161 precincts)  

More
Updated w/ 86% Reporting:

Reed: 30,517 (52.18%)
Norwood: 27,972 (47.82%)

16, Male, Democrat, CA-42/sometimes CA-32.

Just now in, getting even tighter
88% in:
Reed: 33,768 (51.54%)
Norwood: 31,744 (48.46%)

Norwood breaking 30K.

16, Male, Democrat, CA-42/sometimes CA-32.

[ Parent ]
Tight and getting tighter
Kasim Reed  33,774 52%  
Mary Norwood  31,362 48%  

Updated Dec-01-2009 10:44 PM 86% reporting (147 of 170 precincts)

Now
90.00% reporting

MARY NORWOOD 32441 48.64%
KASIM REED 34259 51.36%  

Slight correction
(153 precincts reporting of 170)
90.00% reporting

MARY NORWOOD 32501 48.51%
KASIM REED 34494 51.49%  

Reed wins!
170 precincts reporting of 170)
100.00% reporting

MARY NORWOOD 36800 49.22%
KASIM REED 37961 50.78%  

Quite close
Closer than I was expecting.

Congrats to the Reed camp.

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26

[ Parent ]
REED WON!!!
REED 50.78

NORWOOD 49.22

http://www.fultoncountyga.gov/...

Odd
100% in yet the numbers go up?
[ Parent ]
Now says
(170 precincts reporting of 170)
100.00% reporting

MARY NORWOOD 37273 49.20%
KASIM REED 38487 50.80%  

[ Parent ]
Still changing
And narrowing.

(170 precincts reporting of 170)
100.00% reporting

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

MARY NORWOOD 38196 49.47%
KASIM REED 39011 50.53%  

[ Parent ]
Right Side
I agree that's odd, but if you look on the right hand side it shows the precincts that have completely reported and other information.

Kind of strange for them to do it that way.

[ Parent ]
Got It
AJC is reporting the following:

"Several thousand absentee, advanced and early votes are being counted now."

That's probably why everything is still changing on the Fulton website.

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This one bothers me
Even in a low turnout election there is no excuse for a democrat coming this close to losing in Atlanta against someone who is more or less a republican.
Norwood had very little additional ground to make up
If you come in 1st with 45%+ of the vote in a runoff election as a non-incumbent, you typically have an overwhelming chance of success in round 2. But that's not true if you're a white candidate facing a majority black electorate.

I think she performed about as well as any white candidate possibly could in Atlanta.  

[ Parent ]
Forget making up ground
Why the hell is a republican taking 40% of the Atlanta vote much less 48%?
[ Parent ]
My understanding is that she had a lot of genuine support

[ Parent ]
Because
She's not a Republican. She's an Independent that is further to the left than Reed on some issues.
[ Parent ]
Well, when your only argument for election is
"my opponent is a closet Republican!!!", I'm not surprised he didn't do better.
[ Parent ]
Simone Bell did in fact win HD-58
http://sos.georgia.gov/electio...

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
That's the highlight of the night
Good for her.  
[ Parent ]
Wow. Atlanta also elected a gay, Asian councilman.
Interesting.

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.
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