Quickly checking in...
Couple things:
Generally, turnout does seem high. In my parent's division in Germantown, they had 350 voters before 6 PM and the after-work rush. There is only like 550 voters in the division total, so that is a very good sign.
In the first district, Doc has a ton of people, everywhere. It will be a shock if he loses, with all his money.
Also, MSNBC has an exit poll that says 67% of voters thought Clinton attacked Obama unfairly. That might be a hint this will be a little closer than most people assume.
Update, with some early results:
Doc: 39
Farnese: 43
Dicker: 18
89 Percent Reporting
Payton: 63
Lewis: 37
76 Percent Reporting
KYW HAS PROJECTED TONY THE WINNER.
Youngblood: 65
Davis: 35
30 Percent Reporting
KYW HAS PROJECTED ROSITA THE WINNER.
Kenyatta Johnson: 66
Harold James: 34
80 Percent in.
KYW HAS PROJECTED KENYATTA THE WINNER.
That would be a big change.
Oh yeah, and Clinton-Obama: 54-46, 33 pct in.
Germantown Results
One Division's Result- SW GTown, 13-4:
Obama: 336
Clinton: 47
Youngblood: 226
Davis: 122
Ain't No Party like a Dicker Party
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I can't wait for Anne's victory speech
I hear she's going to explain how getting 18% and coming in third is a victory for progressives everywhere.
Drinks are on Local 98 (that was the best deal she could get out of Dougherty for staying in).
I wish there was even a shred of hope that this would put an end to her shameless self-promotion, thinly veiled as civic activism.
Media Elite
Dan Pohlig is on WHYY, wearing his father's sport coat.
Zing!
Congrats Larry!
Looks like Farnese is gonna pull it off, 43% to 38% with 93% reporting! Congrats!
Inky calls it for Farnese with 95% in
Farnese's lead over Doc is only slightly less than what I'd estimate is the total number of votes left to count; this one's done. Disaster averted.
wow.
wow.
Whew! What a relief!
So we all got to vote our conscience, and managed to defeat Dougherty anyway. That feels good, though I'm sure Councilman Kenney will be disappointed that he can't say 'I told you so.'
Though I still voted for Dicker, and still feel she was the best candidate, I do concur with Dan that Farnese is someone we can work on and with, if we can only keep the machine's not-yet-cold-dead-hands off of him.
Markings
It is indeed good news that Payton retained his seat (with some strong numbers) and to have someone in the First who responds to questions (Dougherty refused to fill out the CFP questionnaire, and kept dodging various questions).
Having Harold James booted is also good news for the anti-casino movement. He's bottled up a lot of state legislation in the wildly misnamed Gaming Oversight Committee, of which he is chair.
We had a couple of meetings with Kenyatta and a few of us personally turned out some people as volunteers and for funding. He's not an anti-casino guy per se, but he gets the concept that a job development program should create jobs -- not merely take them from other industries. Casinos, as such, are a bottomfeeding industry, not a job development program.