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

[Flake]

Here's a link with a map

[Flake]

Alameel: 43%
Rogers: 19% (lol)
Scherr: 17%
Kim: 13%
Fjetland: 8%

[Flake]

New updates:

David Alameel: 53.99%   
Michael Fjetland: 5.41%
Harry Kim: 6.78%
Kesha Rogers: 16.22%
Maxey Marie Scherr: 17.57%

Alameel: 43%
Rogers: 19% (lol)
Scherr: 17%
Kim: 13%
Fjetland: 8%

Eh, that's 2 precincts.

Just a few more now

[Flake]

It looks like Alameel might win without a runoff

Patrick is leading Dewhurst 46%-27%

[Flake]

Patrick up 44-28 on Dewhurst
Abbot up 92-4 on Fritsch
Cornyn up 64-17 on Stockman

Alameel up 53-22 on Rogers
Davis up 76-24 on Madrigal

[Flake]

Both Gov. races have been called for Abbott and Davis, GOP Senate race has been called for Cornyn.

[Flake]

Madrigal is doing fairly well.

Yeah; for a perennial Some Dude, he is. He's from Corpus Christie but he's blowing out Davis in some of the counties around the Rio Gande valley.

Indeed, I'm quite shocked. And if he was not some perennial dude with no money, he actually might win.

Did he even run any ads?

He will not win, Davis is leading by 60 points right now.

[Flake]

7.5% in, only Lake and Cook County have voted, so I expect Quinn to do worse as the night goes on.

http://www.politico.com/2014-election/results/map/governor/illinois/#.UyjmxPldUSM

[Flake]

Cumberland County (8% reporting) has 88% of the vote for Hardiman and 12% for Quinn.

[Flake]

Very surprised to see Brady and Rutherford doing this badly.

[Flake]

First county to be done reporting, Edwards County, voted for Quinn 69-31, and voted for Rauner followed by Dillards, Brady, and Rutherford 33-30-24-13.

[Flake]

All of Hamilton and Pope came in, both voted for Hardiman.

[Flake]

A map to keep you occupied (red is quinn, blue is hardiman)

[Flake]

40-38 Rauner

[Flake]

Would the Republican primary go to a runoff if neither Rauner or Dillard gets 50% of the vote?

[Flake]

What % of Cook is reporting?

85%

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Governor Pat Quinn (D): 71.8%
Fmr. Dir. of CeaseFire Illinois Tio Hardiman (D): 28.2%

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Businessman Bruce Rauner (R): 40.1%
State Sen. Kirk Dillard (R): 37.3%
State Sen. Bill Brady (R): 15.1%
Illinois Treasurer Dan Rutherford (R): 7.5%

I left the atlas key on the Illinois map since it would be confusing to read some numbers (like how Rutherford has either >50% or >20%).

[Flake]

Ricketts: 27.3%
Bruning: 26.7%
McCoy: 20.9%
Foley: 17.6%
Slone: 4.1%
Carlson: 3.4%

This is close

[Flake]

Yes, it is sooo close.  I think I saw that Bruning had pulled within about 250 votes.  But he is losing Douglas County by 11% with about 60% of the vote still out.  Bruning is winning Lancaster County by only 3% with perhaps 65% still to count there.  Bruning seems to be carrying most of the small western Nebraska counties by small margins.  I'm unsure if it will be enough for him to claim a narrow win.

With 61% in:
Ricketts 39,622 26.7
Bruning 39,381 26.5
McCoy 31,655 21.3
Foley 25,722 17.3

I'm going to love to make a map of this.

[Flake]

I think it's safe to call it for Ricketts, because, although the margin is close, he is getting a large margin out of Douglas County and it only has half its precincts reporting and Ricketts's (?) margin should grow larger and larger as the night goes on.

[Flake]

The race has been called for Ricketts

[Flake]

Lee Terry only won his primary by 6. I think he's headed toward a loss in the general.

Why was it so close in the first place?

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2014/by_state/TX_Page_0527.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS

[Flake]

Yep. Perez is still up with about 2400 with 100% in. Wow. And last night it looked like he would be the GOP's spoiler in this race.

I'm not sure this is over yet. Absentee ballots dropped of on election day are generally not counted right away.

Aren't the democrats the ones who put that system into place? It's hilarious they keep being screwed by it.

It was a Proposition. The Democrats and Arnold did refer it to the voters as part of Republican Abel Maldonado's extortion for voting for a budget. Too bad that the Proposition reducing the 2/3rds majority to simple for passing a budget didn't pass a little earlier. I think all 6 political parties opposed the Proposition.

I think it's probably safe to say that Perez will make the runoff. Don't absentees tend to favor Democrats?

Schwarzenegger and Maldonado were the only two people who publicly backed prop 14 in 2010 to chance the primary system. The legislature had to stomach sending the prop to the voters as part of a compromise to get the budget through. Basically everyone prayed it wouldn't pass, but it did 53-47ish.

I thought it still took a 2/3 majority to pass a budget? No reason to change that rule since the legislature's majorities tend to be so lopsided anyway.

That statement confuses me. Everyone prayed it wouldn't pass, but it did? Doesn't that seem to imply that a majority of people wanted it to pass?

I'm guessing party leadership didn't want it to pass.