Primary Results Open Thread

Posted February 2nd, 2010 at 07:07 PM by IlliniPundit

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On February 2nd, 2010 at 07:35 PM, Glock21 said:

Results link with local races on top of the bigger ones the bigger outlets are covering... seems to be updating pretty quickly: http://illinoishomepage.net/content/election10

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 2nd, 2010 at 07:56 PM, UI Chancellor (not verified) said:

Any results from the county clerk's office?

On February 2nd, 2010 at 08:27 PM, Glock21 said:

Well 33% reporting in for the major races from http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/results/index.html (numbers from AP's service):

Has Kirk 43% ahead... game over there.

Has Giannoulias 4% ahead of Hoffman...

Has Hynes still trailing Quinn by 6%... I don't wanna look...

And it has McKenna leading Dillard and Ryan by 6% each.... McKenna? Really? Ugh.

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 2nd, 2010 at 08:29 PM, Glock21 said:

But while typing that Dillard budged 3% closer behind McKenna.with 35% reporting.

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 2nd, 2010 at 08:31 PM, Dan Fielding said:

The real races are the Democratic primaries for Lieutenant Governor and Comptroller, especially Comptroller.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 08:34 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

I'm having trouble finding the link for election results on Mark's website. Can anyone post that link?

On February 2nd, 2010 at 08:37 PM, Glock21 said:

Comptroller is looking pretty tight still... Raja is 2 points behind Miller with 32% reporting.... Cohen is 2 points behind Turner on the Lt Gov spot with 32% reporting as well.

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 2nd, 2010 at 08:38 PM, Glock21 said:

anon... here's the link: http://www.champaigncountyclerk.com/elections/results/2010/02_02_2010_results.html

The numbers there seem to get posted later in the result hound fun though.

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 2nd, 2010 at 08:43 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

To Glock21.......many thanks

On February 2nd, 2010 at 09:00 PM, Jay (not verified) said:

I know it is still early, but a Quinn and Giannoulias victory means a Republican landslide in November.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 09:08 PM, UI Chancellor (not verified) said:

http://www.politico.com/2010/maps/

Check this out, it's a live voting results map

On February 2nd, 2010 at 09:23 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

Don't count the November chickens just yet. In the Senate race both R's and D's have 61% of the vote in.

The Dem's have a total of about 609,000 votes cast for all candidates.

The Repub's have a total of about 370,000 votes cast for all candidates.

Never underestimate the Cook County machine to get the vote out.

...and before anyone starts to slash and burn my opinion...........I'm a Kirk supporter.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 09:35 PM, aspects said:

Wow the Republican governor race went from 79.3% to 80% and Brady just moved into first place.

Brady, McKenna and Dillard are separated by 0.5% and less than 3,000 votes.

Ford County at 0% (not that it's that big but it could help Brady) and Champaign at 29.9%.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 09:41 PM, Glock21 said:

Bill Brady... wow... didn't see that one coming. Wonder if it's just a temporary boost from counting McLean county. Guess we'll see if it holds.

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 2nd, 2010 at 09:46 PM, one who hopes t... said:

Are they counting results at Brookens tonight, or have they moved counting to the coroner's office in downtown Urbana?

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:01 PM, aspects said:

And now Dillard is ahead with 90.1% when some northeastern counties like Dupage came in.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Glock21 said:

Yeah, Dillard seems to be pulling ahead on the last couple updates... Hynes is rounding up to 50/50 with Quinn... but still several thousand votes short... with only 9% left to count. Yikes.

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Glock21 said:

Giannoulias just got the projected winner from the AP... looks like Raja is pulling ahead with a modest but expanding lead.

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Who Dat (not verified) said:

I'm calling it for Quinn... Republican will come down to Brady v. Dillard.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Dan Fielding said:

Congratulations to Pattsi, who finished first in District 6. Richards second.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Dan Fielding said:

Also to Stephanie Holderfield, who appears to have won in District 1.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Laura Sandefur said:

Who dat, I'm not sure I'd call that Quinn/Hynes race just yet. 94% reporting and Quinn has a lead of less than 5500.

Just saying...

Laura

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Glock21 said:

That 5500 keeps looking bigger and bigger with every reporting percentage increase... with little to no change in the gap. There might still be a chance... but it seems to be fading away at an exponential rate.

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

Unless the map on politico is completely bonkers, Champaign and Wabash Co are holding back big time (29.9 and 18.8 % respectfully) That will only help Brady...I think he's got it.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

On a side note...looks like the Hastert name has worn out its welcome in IL-14. Hultgren up 54.6 to 45.4 with 98% reporting.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Who Dat (not verified) said:

I extrapolate results based on how the vote is going in the various counties and which precincts have reported. I think at this point Brady is likely to pick up about 800-900 more votes than Dillard (expanding the margin against him by about that amount). But, I'd still hesitate to call that race.

I think Quinn has it though.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Poor Richard said:

Could a recount be coming. - very close for R-Gov.

On February 2nd, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Who Dat (not verified) said:

With all of Champaign and McLean in, Brady has a 2400 vote lead. Dillard's hopes rest with the 6.1% of Cook County that has not yet reported... It certainly doesn't look good for Dillard.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 12:00 AM, savron (not verified) said:

quinn in a squeaker less than 1/2 vote a precint....might want to put together a precint operation for general

On February 3rd, 2010 at 12:28 AM, pattsi said:

To Dan Fielding @ 10:22 P--thank you. Pattsi Petrie

On February 3rd, 2010 at 12:35 AM, wayward said:

Yay, Pattsi!

On February 3rd, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Ernest Terga said:

No matter who gets the ballot spot for the GOP ticket for gov.... 80% of GOP voters wanted to vote for someone else in the fall.... suckers....

On February 3rd, 2010 at 02:34 AM, Dan Fielding said:

I'm going to go ahead and congratulate Bill Brady and Jim McGuire before Chicago uncovers enough votes for Kirk Dillard to reclaim the lead in the morning.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 06:38 AM, Cutiemomma46 (not verified) said:

Cute Dan, real Cute. Jim McGuire and Jeff Kibler did a GREAT job in CU. My hats off to them for walking precincts, making phone calls when I know it was difficult to do. Bill is up by 503 votes. He said on WLS this morning that he won another race by only 8 votes - says, jokingly, this one (503 votes) a big lead on WLS this morning on Don Wade and Roma's show. That was funny.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 08:21 AM, Glock21 said:

If the remaining precincts are accurate on the politico map, Hynes looks doomed... the remaining areas are small pop. pro Hynes and high pop. pro Quinn... with 7,202 vote deficit. Dillard might have a chance since the tables are turned for him in those same areas with only 503 vote deficit. But looking at the Dillard/Brady ratios in Cook, the small percentage of precincts left compared to total votes thus far... it looks like it'd be dern close even if he pulls it off.

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 3rd, 2010 at 08:28 AM, IlliniPundit said:

Hynes is doomed.

Dillard/Brady will be very close based on my projections last night. Key is 30 precincts in suburban Cook County that hadn't been counted as of last night. If there's 2500 or 3000 GOP votes in those precincts, the margin will be razor-thin.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 08:51 AM, Glock21 said:

"Hynes is doomed."

Yeah, can't see how he isn't. Which means Democrats are already losing independent votes... starting with this one. No way in hell am I voting for Blago Chavez's running mate and enabler. Hope the trial over the summer effectively sinks Quinn's re-election attempt. I'd prefer to have Dillard on the other side of the ballot choice. If Brady ends up being my protest vote, I can live with that.

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 3rd, 2010 at 09:08 AM, pattsi said:

To Wayward @ 12:35 A--thank you. Pattsi Petrie

On February 3rd, 2010 at 09:09 AM, Ernest Terga said:

Al Reynolds got over 500 write-in votes in Champaign County. The Tea Party is alive and well.

Sarah Praline and Karl Rove and their ilk will be trying to see how much energy and resources they can siphon off the Tea Party.

They will get some. There are lots of Tea Partiers who see right through the Sarah the Neocon.

IP may be right. Maybe I'm not a Republican any more. None of my choices in a contested primary race will be on the GOP ballot.

The huge gap between who Andy McKenna really is and who he pretends to be, and the Fact that the GOP electorate falls for that is something strange to behold. I mean, hey, he didnt win it seems but he got a Lot of Votes.

I have never voted for a D in any general election but I will be voting FOR Quinn and Against scum-of-the-earth Brady and Against Kirk and Rutherford, the darlings of the epicoene daisy-chainers.

The more I consider Quinn the more I think he is a pretty good guy.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 09:17 AM, IlliniPundit said:

"IP may be right. Maybe I'm not a Republican any more. None of my choices in a contested primary race will be on the GOP ballot."

I felt the same way in 2008. I decided to try and fix that by working harder for my candidates in the Primary.

"The more I consider Quinn the more I think he is a pretty good guy."

Heh. I come to the exact opposite conclusion - the more I consider Quinn the more I realize that he's a charlatan.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 09:23 AM, Glock21 said:

ET... with advocacy like that I can only hope Quinn makes you his spokesman. :-)

Glock21 Op/Ed

On February 3rd, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

IP...How did Brady come so close? I didn't see his visibility at all during the campaign and he appeared to be a sleeper candidate...Should Brady win his positions are way too idealogical to get in for Guv

On February 3rd, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

Current totals at Chicago Tribune have the Republican gubernatorial race essentially a four-way dead heat; the fourth-place candidate is only 3.3% behind the first-place candidate.

Bodes well for GOP party unity, doesn't it. Either the Senate race will bring them to the polls in November, or they won't be coming, because the gubernatorial race isn't going to do it.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 10:21 AM, akibare said:

Maybe I'm just hungry but "Sarah Praline" is making me think of a political humor ice cream party to go along with all that tea. Sarah Praline, Baracky Road... Scott Brownie... surely there's fun to be had with the Waffle Cones too.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Poor Richard said:

akibare - Thanks for giving us something to "snicker" about.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Local Voter said:

When you get to it Mark, it would be interesting to see how many votes were cast yesterday.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 11:05 AM, DaveM said:

LV: 19% turnout.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 11:05 AM, IlliniPundit said:

"IP...How did Brady come so close? I didn't see his visibility at all during the campaign and he appeared to be a sleeper candidate...Should Brady win his positions are way too idealogical to get in for Guv"
He surged Friday-Monday when both McKenna's and Dillard's negative spots were burning in.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 11:11 AM, pattsi said:

To LV @ 10:56A--the 19% is across the county. Just go to the county clerkk's web site to get the details that are much more interesting and telling than one percentage figure. :-) I always look at the percentage of voters who do not vote the bottom of the ballot--very informative. For District 6 2008 primary, the range was 17-25% with my own precinct being in the middle of this range.

Pattsi Petrie

On February 3rd, 2010 at 12:57 PM, PropertyRights said:

Thank You Akibari, you almost made me spit take with the "waffle" cone comment.. Good one.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 01:12 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

On the beeping machines, I didnt think that a) they were that loud b) I told the election worker it would make that noise and which button to push. They gave me the answer right away and it was boom, out the door.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 04:12 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

b) I told the election worker it would make that noise and which button to push. They gave me the answer right away and it was boom, out the door.

You know, Shelden posting instructions on how to deal with the issue in this dignified and simple manner might be a far more straightforward manner than the whole lawsuit, crying in his milk thing that's been going on. Frankly, I think he's at least half-happy the damn thing's going to beep. It's crocodile tears that are being shed.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 08:35 PM, Dan Fielding said:

"Cute Dan, real Cute. Jim McGuire and Jeff Kibler did a GREAT job in CU."

In case you thought that was sarcasm, it wasn't. Brady wouldn't be ahead or tied if not for Jim. I didn't want to wait to offer congratulations and wake up to a different result.

Someone close to Dillard should tell him to show some class. The passive-aggressive swipes at Brady are unattractive.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 09:06 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

There is no way Brady can carry Chicago. The Republican Party is proving again that it is no longer capable of nominating a moderate to run for statewide office. That is bad for the state.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 09:12 PM, Dan Fielding said:

Yes, it was such a shame Mark Kirk and Judy Baar Topinka overwhelmingly lost their primaries.

On February 3rd, 2010 at 09:49 PM, Keith_Hays said:

United States Senator FEDERAL
Vote For Up To 1
(WITH 117 OF 117 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
Donald (Don) Lowery . . . . . . . 1,553 11.20
Mark Steven Kirk . . . . . . . . 7,630 55.05
Andy Martin. . . . . . . . . . 609 4.39
Kathleen Thomas . . . . . . . . 1,065 7.68
John Arrington. . . . . . . . . 354 2.55
Patrick J. Hughes. . . . . . . . 2,580 18.61
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 69 .50
Total . . . . . . . . . 13,860
Over Votes . . . . . . . . . 10
Under Votes . . . . . . . . . 636

Does anybody find it shocking that there are 609 people living in this county who would vote for Anthony R. Martin-Trigona aka Andy Martin?

Three Score and Ten Plus One

Keith Hays

On February 3rd, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Arvid said:

Does anybody find it shocking that there are 609 people living in this county who would vote for Anthony R. Martin-Trigona aka Andy Martin?

That's not surprising, considering he recently claimed the mantle of leadership for downstate Republicans by default. I, for one, welcome this new Internet Powerhouse Overlord for the downstate Republicans.

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Bars are not serving minors. - "B is for Business" on 2009-12-28 @ 7:29am

On February 3rd, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Run4cvrlib said:

Funny I heard Brady couldn't win the Primary either.

I have a better question, do you think the Democrats could possibly do there jobs and start sending out the funds they appropriated for all the Public schools before they start closing or did you pass an illegally unbalanced budget?

On February 4th, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

Were Andy Martin's votes concentrated in any set of precincts ?

On February 4th, 2010 at 07:05 AM, Ernest Terga said:

someone over at the Daily Kos had this to say about Mark Kirk:

Mark Kirk badly underperformed, considering his vast financial advantages. He emerged the clear winner, though, as the anti-Kirk vote split several ways. Kirk won with 57% of the vote, while Patrick Hughes ran well behind with 19%.

Even the Daily Kos recognizes that there is a strong anti-Kirk sector that won't vote for him no matter what.

Candidates like pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, pro-cap&trade, pro-war, anti-gun neocon Mark Kirk will cause more and more negative sentiment in the GOP and cause more voters to either stay at home and not vote, or to look for Tea Party candidates.

On February 4th, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Champaign Dweller said:

I'm sure that's what the Democrats are hoping for--Kirk isn't my ideal candidate, but I'll support him against the Democrat and I think a lot of other conservatives will too because of the importance of sending more Republicans to the Senate. This election has a lot of issues that haven't been true in the past, so I'm not sure that past elections will be good predictors for this one.

On February 4th, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Ernest Terga said:

I can't find ANY reason to vote for Mark Kirk.

I am pretty sure there are GOP people out there who would even vote Obama if he called himself a Republican.

Or even, in extremis, for a Judy Barr-Topinka if she put a "R" after her name.

At least Arlen Spectre finally found the D-cency to affiliate with his own party.

On February 4th, 2010 at 02:38 PM, redstatewannabe said:

There is no way Brady can carry Chicago.

There is no way a Republican can win in Massachusetts....oh, wait, scratch that.

Quinn and the GA are being pushed to raise taxes - this summer. Maybe they will look like responsible adults, and maybe they will look like greedy, unfeeling, politicians. Or maybe they won't do it and will look like cowards. No matter what they decide, if the economy does not improve before the Fall I would not want to be running as a Dem this year.

On February 4th, 2010 at 02:52 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

A blagojevich trial and tax increase could make the general election very interesting.

On February 4th, 2010 at 03:09 PM, redstatewannabe said:

Frerichs is a co-sponsor on HB 174, along with Cullerton and Emil Jones (and many more). It would raise the income tax rates 66%. I have rec'd two emails recently urging me to contact my legislator to push this.

On the flip side, you have non-profits, schools, medical providers and social service agencies crying because they are not getting paid what they were promised. Watching these places close, cut back, and slash programs won't make for a sunny summer for the Dems in power either.

On February 4th, 2010 at 03:31 PM, Champaign Dweller said:

I don't see a way out of this mess without a tax increase, but I'd like to see it tied strictly to debt reduction. Does anyone believe that our current legislature won't use additional taxes to fund new programs, and default on their existing obligations, including past debt?

On February 4th, 2010 at 04:27 PM, Cutiemomma46 (not verified) said:

Dan, I'm sorry, I thought the second part of your post was cute with the discovering more votes. I do agree that Dillard and Brady should swipe at the Dems instead of each other. I don't think I've heard Brady swiping at Dillard but I could be wrong.

Unfortunately this might take some time before it's officially over. I know it's what 10 working days before they stop accepting absentee/military ballots? Then if Sen. Dillard wishes to do a "discovery recount" he can. I just hope the whole thing is honest, they play nice and that it's over quickly.

Dillard has had a lot on him lately especially with his Dad passing during the campaign. I pray that once this is over, he can grieve. Whether he wins or not, he may need the time to do so. I don't know the man personally but I'm sure he'll need some time. Maybe not. But whether we have Brady (hoping) or Dillard, we'll be a lot better off than with Quinn. That I do know.

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