FRANZL ELECTION TRACKER (updated as of 7:09 pm, THURSDAY)

[DownWithTheLeft]

Thank God I found some time to vote

[DownWithTheLeft]

As expected, this may come down to the wire

Let me just go vote and make it a little closer

[DownWithTheLeft]

I think you got Calvin & Hobbes color wrong

I concur that I do not believe he ever joined the RPP, I believe he is a member of the JCP

[DownWithTheLeft]

Calvin and Hobbes did switch to JCP.  It really looks bad that an RPP member broke ranks

BTW, is JJ in the count?  Am I down 41-35 or 41-34?

[DownWithTheLeft]

Out of party voters, just for interest sake

Fritz 13 (Barnes, Bullmoose, SewerSocialist, DC_United, Badger, EarlAW, HappyWarrior, Jas, Lewis, Andy Jackson, Smash, Iosif, Verily)

DWTL 12 (Franzl, Purple State, KyleGordon, Swedish Cheese, Cinyc, OfficePark, Torie, Mrk, Intermoderate, RealisticIdealist, Winfield, AndrewCT)

JCP for DWTL: 1
RPP for Fritz: 0

Now that is a battle

[DownWithTheLeft]

Win or lose, by far a better showing than many would have ever expected I would get in a heads up national election.  Also a tremendous turnout and we should easily get more votes than the presidential election

[DownWithTheLeft]

44-36, could be interesting

[DownWithTheLeft]

I think Fritz probably got the most first preferences of any candidate in any election.

I also would not doubt I got the most votes of any losing candidate

[DownWithTheLeft]

Double the voters in the Pacific than Dirty South

That explains the result

[DownWithTheLeft]

DWTL got a higher percent of the vote in the Mideast than the Southeast.

Yeah that really, really surprised me.  I was shocked to see how good I did in the Mideast, but even more shocked at the lack of votes in the Dirty South.  Although a lot of voters did not show up.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Why is Mideast so conservative ?

Its honestly not that conservative, I'd hardly call Franzl, Benconstine, or PurpleState hardcore conservatives if any of them are conservatives at all.

[DownWithTheLeft]

I think what HW is trying to say is that most people in the Mideast have brains and can think for themselves except for people like him who just cry about people not being nice.

Anyway, the assertion that the Mideast is a conservative bastion is non-sense.  I have said it before, it simply makes no sense if you look at it the region.  In fact, while certainly the most right-leaning party, the idea that the RPP is a cohesive conservative bastion is also absurd.  We are fairly evenly split between populists, conservatives, and libertarians