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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Breaking News On Andy Harris vs. Frank Kratovil
If Andy Harris gets 52.25% of the absentee votes he'll win the election. Man, this thing could actually come down to the military votes Ladies & Gentlemen. Then again, it could go the other way, so time will tell! They start counting the ballots tomorrow morning.
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Joe:
It looks like most of the A-ballots are going to be by Democrats, and more from the Shore than the 3 Baltimore area counties combined. Look for little change, and Kratovil may pick up the most.
http://www.elections.state.md.us/press_room/index.html
He is guaranteed at least 1 more vote I have an absentee in this count!
I voted absentee and my vote went to Kratovil.
Per the Maryland Election Board: The Web site also indicates that as of Monday, 32,298 absentee ballots had been requested in the 1st District and more than 25,000 received through Tuesday.
Sorry Joe, statistically absentee votes follow the numbers in the general election, and further, the democrats voted by absentee so that the "chad counters" could not steal the election...again.
I voted for none of the above because Harris acted like a fool at SU.
numbers's have changed since 5 pm last night.
Joe
R you starting to hidge your bets?
"It could go the other way"
Still running an echo chamber, Joe?
Here are the factes. The Shore requested 18,000 absentees. The 3 Western Shore requested 13,000. You're also not accounting for provisional ballots.
That's not to say Andy Harris won't win, but Frank Kratovil with a 950 vote cushion has a much easier path.
If I can win over Estelle Shapiro's vote during our condo board recount, I can still end up Grand Poo-Bah of Del Boca Vista; I only wish I hadn't pissed off Murray the Jew Banker (the swing condo board vote) by telling his fellow board members he keeps his garbage can OUTSIDE his garage. I mean what are we animals...who keeps their garbage where others can see it. Oy.
At this point it really won't matter much, democrats are in control and we may get change that nobody expected. And i hope we do. God bless us all and this country.
Do you all realize that this race has made the national news because it is one of just a dozen races not yet called nationwide?
Pretty exciting.
Joe:
I was involved in an absentee ballot count in Wicomico a few years ago. It was the election between Bill Carey and Marvin Long. Bill Carey lost by only 15 votes. Usually, the Republicn candidate garners slightly more than the Democratic candidate. I'm not exactly sure why but I've heard that absentee ballots slightly lean toward the Republicsn party.
This one is a really close one.
Wow Joe... are you going to go 0-2 this election? Maybe you should have taken advice from the site heading and went with the "unbiased" route! Would have been fair to the readers and made your life easier!
Kratovil led Harris with 160,915 votes to 160,000 in unofficial results posted online Wednesday by the State Board of Elections. Libertarian candidate Richard James Davis loomed as a spoiler with 7,927 votes; 277 ballots were cast for write-in candidates.
According to the state board, 32,535 absentee ballots had been requested and 25,539 returned to the county boards through Tuesday. They include ballots requested by members of the military and other Marylanders living overseas.
Of the returned ballots, 11,371 came from Democrats, 10,924 from Republicans and 3,244 from independents and others. Three out of five, meanwhile, came from the Eastern Shore -- a ratio that could favor Kratovil, a Stevensville resident who currently leads in all nine counties on that side of the Chesapeake. Harris, who represents Baltimore County in the state Senate, leads in Baltimore, Anne Arundel and Harford counties.
We up here in Cecil were virtually ignored by the Andy Harris campaign and it shows in the unofficial figures:
Barack Obama (D) 16,331
John McCain (R) 22,315
All Others . 912
U.S. CONGRESS
Frank Kratovil (D) 18,643
Andy Harris (R) 17,992
Richard J. Davis (L) 1,189
Republicans also took both county commissioner seats.
He still may pull it out in the end, but, if not, I see this as the major problem. I'm not even sure that we received a mailer during the general election from the Harris camp.
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