Politics The Burner-Reichert Race
posted by November 8 at 13:30 PM
onIn terms of vote totals, the eastside House race between Darcy Burner and Dave Reichert is closer than the just-called Montana Senate race and the yet-to-be-called Virginia Senate race. Currently, there are only 2,650 votes separating Reichert and Burner.
The difference in terms of percentages? Well, that’s a different story. Reichert has 51 percent of the vote while Burner has 49 percent.
In 2004, Reichert beat liberal radio talk show host Dave Ross by 5 points, earning 51.5 percent of the vote to Ross’s 46.5 percent.
So far Burner’s clearly doing better than Ross, but she has a long way to go if she expects to unseat Reichert. But, as the votes continue to be counted, here’s one thing to keep in mind: A total of about 336,000 votes were cast in the 2004 Ross-Reichert race. As of this post, only about 121,000 votes have been counted in the Burner-Reichert race.
Granted, 2004 was a presidential election year and therefore drew a larger turnout, but for those still holding out hope for Burner — well, if there’s any hope, it lies in the eastside’s yet-uncounted ballots.
The Burner campaign tells me there are “tens of thousands” of ballots still to be counted on the eastside, and that with a difference of only 2,650 votes between the candidates, Burner’s not conceding yet.
(Burner photo by Dennis Williams)
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The King County web site has Burner ahead with 727 of 745 precincts reporting.
See for yourself here:
http://www.metrokc.gov/elections/200611/resPage4.htm
The 8th district spans King and Pierce county, and each county only reports their precincts. For the combined totals, see the Secretary of State's website.
http://tinyurl.com/yfwlbw
Thanks John. Damn, I was pretty psyched for a few minutes!
Eli, your current vote percentages add up to 101%.
Darcy was always ahead in King, it's the 8 point drop in Pierce that's killing her.
There are a TON of votes in King County still to be counted. The next count is slated for 6pm tonite. This is far from over.
Pierce County huh? Looks like Burner was done in by the "Gun Rack" demographic.
See, therein lies Darcy's peril: she did not connect with the taxicab-driver-stabbing, meth-smoking, pickpocketing, underpaid undereducated and overaddicted masses down in Pierce County. She'll likely win King County, but the Caucasian Garbage down South wants Sherriff Reichert, or as they call him, Shareof Rikurt.
See, therein lies Darcy's peril: she did not connect with the taxicab-driver-stabbing, meth-smoking, pickpocketing, underpaid undereducated and overaddicted masses down in Pierce County. She'll likely win King County, but the Caucasian Garbage down South wants Sherriff Reichert, or as they call him, Shareof Rikurt.
See, therein lies Darcy's peril: she did not connect with the taxicab-driver-stabbing, meth-smoking, pickpocketing, underpaid undereducated and overaddicted masses down in Pierce County. She'll likely win King County, but the Caucasian Garbage down South wants Sherriff Reichert, or as they call him, Shareof Rikurt.
Damn site lag. Somebody with SlogWebPowers please undo 2 of my last 3 posts, plz.
What's with the excruciatingly slow reporting? Do they count the ballots by hand or something? Is there a problem?
Better yet, delete all three copies of that horseshit.
I read that it is taking so long with the count because of the whole Gubinetorial mess. They are checking the signatures as they count the votes or something like that.
I surely hope that Burner can defeat Congressman Hairdo. That guy is a tool.
Eli, I know you love you some Darcy Burner, but to compare her performance with Dave Ross's in an election year when Republicans are getting hammered is hardly valid. Had Dave Ross ran, he'd have obliterated Reichert. Instead, the Democrats ran an inexperienced candidate with military creds in a district that doesn't really care about that.
Eli, I'm not ready to call this either, but you might consider the breakdown of the votes and respective margins in the Pierce and King County portions of the district. And consider how much better Burner will have to do in the remaining uncounted ballots than she did in the ballots counted so far.
See my analysis at the link in my signature
I just did some (incredibly imprecise) back of the napkin math, and it looks to me like Darcy needs 51.2% of the remaining King County vote, and sad to say, I don't think that's very damn likely. The one spot of gloom in my mood is that Darcy likely won't make it....but no amount of hoping conquers a 2700 vote deficit, not enough ballots left to count, and a win margin that we haven't seen from her in any ballot batch yet....
Wednesday evening numbers are in. Looking better for Reichert
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