2010 Primaries Thread (It's all over now, baby blue)

[minionofmidas]

Man Nobles County is weird. Always is.

Entenza has over 50% there, what? He's not from anywhere near there, he's from St. Paul.

It probably just wants to be in Iowa.

Which just goes to show how weird it is.

[minionofmidas]

Dayon is going to overtake her very shortly now. He's surging at this point. With 83% in he's behind by 2200 votes.

BRTD had it right 45 minutes ago. It was only a matter of time, assuming later Duluth matched earlier Duluth.

BRTD? ahem... 

MN-GOV is anyone's game too.  The advantage for Dayton is that a lot of Duluth is still out and games often happen there.

Everybody knows you're his sock account.

There is a logic to the GA map, of sorts, actually.

As for MN, since they have the habit of electing the worst candidates possible, why am I not surprised - Dayton has always been a grade A idiot and so is Emmer.  ugh.

I don't understand the far southwest (nor Catoosa). Otherwise, certainly so. Much as one would guess, actually.

[minionofmidas]

Actually, what the Georgia gov map almost looks like at a glance is "McCain + Romney = Handel" and "Huckabee = Deal", with a couple obvious exceptions. Of course, don't read into this that Huckabee's endorsement meant anything at all, because it definitely didn't.

Yeah, it's just that Deal appeals to Huckabee for the same reason that they appeal to the same kind of voters. Real (esp. White) Georgia vs Fake (esp. White) Georgia if you ask me.

[minionofmidas]

The heavily Black counties of Southwest Georgia probably don't have all that many people voting in the R primary. Ie, it's probably just a class thing. (And it need not be specifically about gays. Just about the good ole folks back home vs all these incomers who're trying to take over the state.)

[minionofmidas]

The heavily Black counties of Southwest Georgia probably don't have all that many people voting in the R primary. Ie, it's probably just a class thing. (And it need not be specifically about gays. Just about the good ole folks back home vs all these incomers who're trying to take over the state.)

Handel was viewed as some kind of outsider?  

Deal was the good old boy, traditional candidate. I mean, the guy's been in Congress these last twenty years and was a Democrat til 95. And had pork issues. While Handel had Tea Party support, and that's a suburban, rootless, evil phenomenon.
I don't know when Handel first moved to Atlanta, but it must have been sometime between 1992 and 2002, as an adult. She's from the Beltway originally.

[minionofmidas]

Wow, Richard Brodsky has Pete Seeger's endorsement. Now that's pretty awesome.

Pete Seeger is, what, 104?

[minionofmidas]

2-1 is surprising. Landry winning easily is not.