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

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

By the way, there are two important SC runoffs the AP is not covering.

5th Circuit Solicitor (D)
Dan Johnson
John Meadors

Berkeley County Supervisor (R)
Henry Brown  (yes, the same Henry Brown who chose to not run for reelection in SC-01)
Dan Davis

This race was a dead heat in the first round, Davis got 40.64% of the vote and Brown got 40.62% (a 3 vote difference).
Incidentally, the AP has some test results on the SC page right now that are strongly labeled as don't use!

However, for giggles, here's who they are listing as having won the runoffs.

Attorney General (R)
Wilson 55%
Lord 45%

Governor (R)
Barrett 55%
Haley 45%

Lieutenant Governor (R)
Ard 55%
Connor 45%

Superintendent of Education (R)
Zais 55%
Moffly 45%

SC-01 (R)
Thurmond 55%
Scott 45%

SC-03 (R)
Duncan 55%
Cash 45%

SC-04 (R)
Inglis 55%
Gowdy 45%

SC-06 (R)
Harrelson 55%
Pratt 45%

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Judging by the line on the sign-in sheet, turn out at my precinct was about the same or maybe even slightly higher than two weeks ago.  Of course, we do have a hotly contested State House runoff to generate extra heat, so my precinct may not be typical.

The State Election Commission has a link to the results now up:
http://www.enr-scvotes.org/SC/16213/28319/en/summary.html

Judging by past experience, the AP link will have the results up faster, but as a I mentioned in a prior post, the SEC site has two races of interest that the AP link doesn't.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Here's the tally in the Berkeley County Supervisor race with all precincts reporting.

Henry Brown (REP)   
   44.26%   7,062
Dan Davis (REP)   
   55.74%   8,893

Only Richland County is in for the 5th Circuit Solicitor race but there aren't enough votes that Meadors can hope ro gain in Kershaw to overcome the current lead for Johnson.

Dan Johnson (DEM)   
   57.53%   8,207
John Meadors (DEM)   
   42.47%   6,058

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I bet the Republicans are going to take a good hard look at how well Tim Scott does among black voters in November.  If he does significantly better than other Republicans on the ballot, then if South Carolina doesn't end up with a requirement to draw two minority-majority CDs based on the 2010 census results, expect to see a Scottmander be drawn that takes in as many black voters as the GOP thinks leaves Scott with a viable district to run in.  Doubtful given our politics that Scott (or any Republican) could win a minority-majority district.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'm sure this has been asked like 100 times, but when did South Carolina's threshold to avoid a runoff go from 35% to 50%?

It's been 50% as long as I remember, and I've been voting here since 1984.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'm sure this has been asked like 100 times, but when did South Carolina's threshold to avoid a runoff go from 35% to 50%?

It's been 50% as long as I remember, and I've been voting here since 1984.

Did a little research. I'd have to stop by the library and look in the South Carolina Code of Laws Annotated to find when the majority requirement for primaries was put into place, but the decision of Simkins v. Gressette 631 F.2d 287 mentions that the majority requirement was in place at least as far back as 1972.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Incidentally, if anyone cares, the recount in the South Carolina 6th District Republican Primary will be held on Monday.  Here are the official results of the first count in the runoff.

Nancy Harrelson (REP)   
   49.79%   13,578
Jim Pratt (REP)
   50.21%   13,690