Democrats gather in the Johnson County Collector’s Office to watch county and statewide election returns come in.
What are the results in your neck of the woods? Discuss. Statewide? Discuss.
Primary Election Results – open thread
06 Wednesday Aug 2008
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what all the people who voted for Molly Williams were thinking.
Jim Jackson (D) and Denny Hoskins (r) will face off in November.
Chris Benjamin and the advocate of automotive deer hunting will face off in the general election. It looks like Rex Rector gave Pearce a run for his money…
In the Democratic primary in Johnson County:
Twelve votes. No republican filed for the office.
From the JCEB (everything outside of KC):
JOHN BULLARD JR.* 8078 39.39%
MIKE SHARP 7902 38.53%
MIKE MAUER 2488 12.13%
TOM KRAHENBUHL 2042 9.96%
From the KC Board:
T. KRAHENBUHL DEM 1104 4.48%
M. SHARP DEM 13459 54.63%
J. BULLARD DEM 6021 24.44%
M. MAUER DEM 2172 8.82%
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So the next Sheriff of Jackson County is Mike Sharp. That should be interesting. Sharp was last a fulltime officer in 1983. He was a reserve for 16 years and a homicide detective for 8 years after that.
St. Louis City unofficial results page with the SOS page and it looks like there are about 3,000 unreported votes for Donnelly in the City. Unless the city’s site is wrong.
Rachel Storch creamed Mike Roberts Jr.
In Mo Senate 5 – looks like Robin Wright-Jones squeeked by Rodney Hubbard.
Sam Page won 109 of 115 counties. Only losing Saline (to Plattner), Lincoln (to Metzger), Jasper, Mississppi, Bolliger, and Douglas (all 4 to Michael Carter)
40% isn’t thrilling. But it’s a pretty decisive 40%.
Zweifel won a cross-section of counties (and apparently swept the Springfield market). Simckes won the KC section of Jackson County. Charles Wheeler won random counties.
Hulshof won his district big, won the Joplin market, and won a good chunk of STL.
Steelman won the KC market and Springfield.
But the real winner is Jay Nixon. He gets to face a nominee who got weakened badly from his right. Hulshof got beat up in KC/Jackson and that area. Nixon will do very well in the STL/Columbia area. Hulshof’s support should be soft for a Republican in Springfield (think mid-50s for Kenny there).
…the people who voted for Mark Powell in 2004 thought.
If the margin is less than one per cent:
[emphasis added]
on name recognition.
Pretty sad.
current Koster lead: 367 votes
pacing out the returns in Christian, Boone, and STL County increases the Koster lead to 479.
That means an addition of 1258 to Koster, 1147 to Donnelly, 5429 to Harris, and 325 to Williams.
But that is probably very optimistic for Boone. I don’t think 14K votes were cast in Boone.
In STL County, there’s not a huge shift expected (under 200 for Donnelly, 109 for Koster).
But then again, I was expecting Koster by 1000 shortly, and it looks like Koster just didn’t bring a lot in the STL area.
STL County results with 656 in aren’t changing much.
The unscientific projectometer says Koster gains 275, Harris 159, Donnelly 107, and Williams 45 in the remaining Christian County precincts.
We put it off until this afternoon because of the primary.
the guy who will be losing to Ike Skelton by 38+ points in November is Jeff Parnell.
and we have been “Webbered” once again.
the vote total in Boone.. 14246
Ouch.
and I agree about the 2nd and weird candidates. But at this point I just can’t figure out why anyone would vote for Bill Haas for any reason other than that they simply recognized his name
map, only 4 precincts. in St. Louis County are unreported. 12 precincts in Christian county are unreported. So Boone must be all in (since only 16 counties are unreported).
and the race is within a tenth of a percent.
Too bad it didn’t push Donnelly ahead – I’m not sure where the other missing precincts are and that was her best chance.
…four precincts in St. Louis County and twelve precincts in Christian County.
I’m typing this from a hotel room in Joplin.
I suppose it depends on the turnout and the precincts. If the remaining voters are high-turnout precincts in Richmond Heights, Donnelly wins.
If they are low turnout, no matter where there are…
But I did not expect it.
This was an extremely nasty campaign on both sides. I’ll have more to say about it soon.
Looks like Donnelly picked up around 170 votes over Koster in STL County. Down to Christian now.
I meant Rodney vs. Robin. I fully expected Roberts to get creamed.
Looks like Maria Chappelle-Nadal also destroyed her opponent.
Powell actually campaigned. I don’t think Williams did that.
What about Bill Haas? That’s a pretty humbling result for a few guys.
Anybody want to add anything to that? Usually incumbents lose for some reason.
Yesterday, I spent ALL day in my voting precinct recording names of those who voted.
It was a discouraging experience. A lot of people were not aware that they would have to declare a party to get a ballot. When told of the nonpartisan choice, the judges explained that it would only have a tax measure on it.
Several people came in saying I want to vote for X; however, they did not know what ballot they would need to vote for X. This is the consequence of not pushing party identification.
We have the option of paper or a touch screen ballot. My impression was that more DEMOCRATS (and, especially the people who I know are good progressive democrats) choose the paper option.
The touch screen voting takes longer. When I meet Obama-Nixon voters in November, I am going to tell them to choose the paper ballot option. They will not have to wait in line.
One more thing. The judges registered people and indicated what ballot they wanted at registration. This was recorded electronically. Who gets these records because they clearly indicate what party ballot was requested?
for the last 2 weeks so I missed the ads. Someone else will need to answer it.
“running a lot = name rec” thing. I think most of Haas’ candiacies were in St. Louis City.
But the 2nd district never fails to end up with peculiar nominees to face Todd Akin.
because the knowledgeable vote has been split between too many viable candidates; the beneficiary then is a candidate like Haas who has enough name recognition to garner a majority (or, in the past, by the continuing candidacy of Mr. Webber).
I can’t offhand remember the exact numbers, but there were around 30,000 votes cast for Democratic candidates in the 2nd district primary; Haas got somewhat more that 9,000 of those votes, leaving the other four candidates to split the remaining 20,000+votes. I can easily imagine that there were several people like me who would have been happy with several of those other candidates, but we all went different ways when we voted. So, once again, done in.
(thanks to DVR), so I can’t comment either.
Heh.
You’ll have to explain this later.
Boone delivered for Harris, and Koster picked up more of the non-Harris supporting folk in his home turf.
no county completely struck out in regards to picking a losing candidate in the 4 big contested primaries.
For one thing, Page won 109 counties (or 108, idk, there’s at least one tie).
As for those counties
Saline: Hulshof, Plattner, Powell, Harris (after this primary, i’m pretty sure Saline is in the Columbia market)
Bollinger: Hulshof, Carter, Powell, Harris
Mississippi: Hulshof, Carter, Powell, Koster
Douglas: Steelman, Carter, Zweifel, Koster
Lincoln: Hulshof, Metzger, Powell, Koster
As noted, Plattner and Metzger’s wins are very understandable (they’re from the county they won)
Michael Carter’s million robocall campaign apparently was good enough for second place and 3 counties. Guess he needed more robocalls.