Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Democratic Primary Results and Commentary: Live Blog

* 6:55 EST: Polls close in five minutes.
* 7:00 EST: Polls close right about, now.
* 7:04 EST: Word of low turnout in Shenandoah. Bad weather may affect the results in NOVA.
* 7:09 EST: The Political Spin Begins. Moran Camp is "cautiously optimistic". McAuliffe Camp thinks they did well in NOVA, and Deeds Camp is "pretty confident".
*7:11 EST: This sucks that none bothered to do an exit poll!!!
*7:13 EST: Seems like many people had the same experience I did. They were the only person in line to vote!!! Shame,shame, shame!!!
*7:16 EST: Results so far:

Governor - 1% reporting

Deeds - 67% [655 votes]
McAuliffe - 18% [180 votes]
Moran = 14% [138 votes]

Lt. Governor - 1% reporting

Wagner - 60% [494 votes]
Signer - 29% [235 votes]
Bowerbank - 11% [91 votes]

* 7:21 EST: Seems like Deeds has opened up an early lead!

*7:23 EST: . Creigh Deeds 4,948 54.09%

Brian J. Moran 2,110 23.06%

Terry R. McAuliffe 2,089 22.83%

* 7:25 EST: Lt. Governor - 2% reporting

Wagner - 68% [3,249 votes]
Signer - 26% [1,271 votes]
Bowerbank - 6% [281 votes]

* 7:26 EST: Nice lead for Wagner! Signer should have invested in TV buys! It seems to have paid off for Wagner!

* 7:28 EST: Governor - 5% reporting

Deeds - 52% [6,756 votes]
Moran = 25% [3,209 votes]
McAuliffe - 23% [3,014 votes]

Lt. Governor - 5% reporting

Wagner - 70% [7,529 votes]
Signer - 25% [2,680 votes]
Bowerbank - 5% [591 votes]

* 7:31 EST: Thank you, Daily Kos and 538!!!

* 7:35 EST: Even more returns:
Governor - 13% reporting

Deeds - 53% [20,797 votes]
McAuliffe - 24% [9,289 votes]
Moran - 23% [9,183 votes]

Lt. Governor - 12% reporting

Wagner - 74% [23,776 votes]
Signer - 23% [7,276 votes]
Bowerbank - 4% [1,187 votes]

* 7:37 EST: Even more returns:

R. Creigh Deeds 36,046 51.10%
Terry R. McAuliffe 17,473 24.77%
Brian J. Moran 17,019 24.12%

* 7:39 EST: About 1/4th of the results are in. My money is on Deeds and Wagner!!!
* 7:41 EST: Looking at the results, I'm ready to project!!! Jody Wagner is the Democratic Nominee for Lieutenant Governor!!!
* 7:45 EST: Deeds racking big margins across the state!!! McAulliffe is doing well in Greensville!!! Moran is performing in Alexandria!!! Deeds and McAuliffe neck and neck in Newport News!!!
* 7:49 EST: Deeds wins Chesterfield!!! OK, I'm calm now! I'm one of 5000 odd voters who turned out for Deeds!
* 7:51 EST: Poor Terry, he pumped so much cash to do so poorly!!! :( for you.
* 7:52 EST: Deeds, still is running at more than 50% in a 3-way race!
* 7:54 EST: I'm done. I'm calling the race for Deeds!!! With a 25 point lead over T-Mac and a larger lead over Moran, Deeds has a large enough margin to hold his lead! Deeds is the winner!!!

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