The 2014 primary season ends (Sept. 9: DE, MA, NH, NY, RI)

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AOS is projecting McDaniel at 49.96% without Holmes County.

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Second CA-07 runoff slot called for Ose.

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One spot called for Chabot.

If Gooch gets second place....

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^ Yep. 'Waiting for AOS to weigh in on MS-Sen, but at RRH, they say its mathematically impossible for either to win outright.

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Thad's said to be devastated by the narrow loss, that he refused to concede the election to McDaniel. Reports are that Thad cried for 3 hours nonstop and refused to speak to the crowd at the Hotel Marriott in Jackson.

Good Lord. I knew I he wasn't speaking, but wow.


Also, CA-17 officially Honda/Khanna (idk why it took this long to make that call).

CA-21 called for Renteria; the DCCC gets its pick.

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Also, to any people who know Mississippi: What the hell happened in Wilkinson County? It's the only county Childers lost, and not only that, he's in last place there. And the guy in last place overall leads there. WTF?

Its cast very few votes (216 total) and is on the opposite side of the state from his MS-01 base.

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Also, to any people who know Mississippi: What the hell happened in Wilkinson County? It's the only county Childers lost, and not only that, he's in last place there. And the guy in last place overall leads there. WTF?

Maybe the home county of this guy ?

The guy in first place is also from MS-01 and the guy in 2nd place a black R-turned-D from MS-02. Odd.

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MT-AL (R) called for Ryan Zinke, who has 33% in a 5-way field.

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Here's the Cochran/McDaniel map.



This really shows how well McDaniel did in the south-central region.

Going back to Wilkenson County, yeah, something seems odd. Childers lost it and McDaniel won it with 43% (Carey got 25%).

Cochran only won Hancock County by 300 votes; if Taylor wasn't cranking up turnout there, I could see McDaniel flipping it.

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Cochran certainly owes Taylor a fruit basket.

Looks like he'll also be sending out more fruit baskets to these last-minute donors:

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Palazzo vs. McDaniel. Palazzo did better in the blue counties. I excluded Clarke County because it only has a handful of precincts in the district (though they saved Palazzo ).

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This is why McDaniel leads overall while only carrying CD4:

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Well, there it is. AP officially calls a runoff.

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This is why McDaniel leads overall while only carrying CD4:

I wonder why the SIG didn't do a map showing the size of the difference of votes between the two candidates.  Much would be appreciated if they did.

This isn't an elevation map like that, but if it helps, here's an interactive heat map of the absolute vote difference. Its with 97% reporting, so it may be slightly off, but its just a pain to update the numbers (the AP result format isn't particularly Excel-friendly):

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Not suspicious at all.

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Thanks to cinyc for helping with AP -> Excel issues.

Updated CD numbers:

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^ Great job!

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CA-31: RRH says Gooch is conceding to Aguilar.

That would have been pretty embarrassing otherwise.

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MT-AL R Primary. Zinke won with 33%; Rosendale and Stapleton each about 28-29%.

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IIRC Gooch has conceded though.

Are you sure?

This was from yesterday:

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The only Tuesday I take a break from primary liveblogging and Cantor is ousted. Go figure.

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Cleveland County is reporting for OK and Lankford is at 67% (though its near his district).

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5% in for OK

Lankford- 57%
Shannon- 34%

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OK: 11% in and Lankford up 56-34.

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Cochran 56% with 10%.