Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Election night thread.

Election night blogging from last night:
8:55: Fitch up statewide 55-45, 31,586 to 25,650. I think this will hold up. She improved from 47% in Madison County to 60%. Harkins is losing by 400 votes with 68% counted. McKinley won by 154 votes over Louvier. Marsha Weems Stacey beat Weber 54-46 by 337 votes.

8:42:
Houston loses!!! Just wow. 55-45 Tucker. I didn't expect it and I don't think anyone did. He beat Houston 5,610-4,440. Barbour 1789 to 1178 in Hinds. By my calculations, Longwitz wins by 220 votes BUT I do not think that includes affidavits and absentee ballots. In other words, the next few days will be fun.

8:37:
#20 in Madison. Ross goes ahead by 291-243. Expected Harkins to do better here. 1 precinct left. 6 boxes still out on Sheriff's race. 100% of Madison boxes counted in 25. Longwitz won with 57% of the vote, an improvement from his 54% showing in the primary: 3,067-2,247. Question is what happened in Hinds. I thought Longwitz needed 60% in Madison to win the race.

8:30:
85% of precincts in in Madison and Tucker is killing Houston with a 59-41 lead of 1,174 votes. Wow. Just wow. No one expected this. Foreman KO's Norton in first round. 9/14 in and Longwitz has a 57.3-42.5 lead over Barbour in Madison only. Lead is 530 votes. WLBT has Barbour with a lead of 51-49: 3,052-2,948. 2,043-1,513 in Madison so Hinds must be heavily included in the totals 6,000 overall, 3,556 from Madison).

8:25:
7 precincts in in Madison and Longwitz has a 507 vote lead with 50% of the precincts counted: 58.3-41.6%. Sheriff: WOW!!! Tucker kicking the hell out of Houston: 60-40 with 67% of the Precincts in- 949 vote lead. Harkins up by 22 votes with 4/9 precincts counted. McKinley 5 votes ahead of Louvier with 3/9 precincts counted. Marsha Weems Stacey is up by a 2:1 margin with 10/14 counted. Ouch. Advertising on JJ did pay off for her.

8:20:
30% in and Charlie has 167 vote lead. Still only one reporting in Madison so must be Hinds. Fitch up 59-41 over Yancey statewide with a 2,692 vote lead.

8:15:
26% of Precincts in in #25 race according to WLBT. Barbour has 179 vote lead over Longwitz but must be Hinds precincts as only one Madison precinct is in. I expect Barbour to get 70% in Hinds this time around. Question is whether he can improve in Madison.

Madison:
25% of Precincts in. Tucker up by 422 votes at 75%. 1 Precinct in, Barbour up by 8 votes over Longwitz. Harkins up by 7 votes in 1 out of 9 precincts in. 10 precincts in and Fitch is at 60% but its only a margin of 160 votes. Dupree has 90% of the vote with 10 precincts counted.

Hinds: Where the heck is it on the website?

Rankin: nothing worth reporting.

Statewide: Fitch at 66% with a 2:1 lead in votes.

54 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dog pound: Reporting 50%, votes 1 for Houston. Beagle apparently started to vote and then a bird caught its attention. Rumor has it time still left to vote. Bird shot.

Anonymous said...

State Senate - District 25 - GOP Runoff
August 23, 2011 - 09:27PM ET
Mississippi - 17 of 27 Precincts Reporting - 63%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Barbour , Charles GOP 3,052 51%
Longwitz , William GOP 2,948 49%

KaptKangaroo said...

Barbour Longowitz too close to call

Anderson leading

Tucker up big

Anonymous said...

WLBT still has a wrong posting. They are showing Senate race District 20 as MADISON County instead of Rankin. I called 'em. Still wrong.

Anonymous said...

Randy Tucker should hold his victory party at Haute Pig Restaurant!!!

Anonymous said...

Never underestimate a built-in campaigning force. Tucker had this advantage within the Department. They worked their asses off as if there job(s) depended upon it. Not one singular event or dirty campaigning decided this race by such a margin. Simple, hard work and relentless campaigning. I am not surprised at the outcome.

Anonymous said...

Lets see how many folks, besides FOP, in Madison agree.

Anonymous said...

That ass, Gerald Barber, wrote a letter to the editor of the Clarion-Ledger endorsing Jimmy Houston. Yet another reason I am SO glad Jimmy Houston lost.

Anonymous said...

Sheriff Tucker. Prayers answered!

Anonymous said...

KF do we have to deal with the FOP that are going to obviously gloat?

Tucker wins. End of it. Pray no one else hangs themselves in the MadCo jail after a night of living hell courtesy of lack of oversight and abuse. Investigated, never published.

Anonymous said...

AP calls it for Lynn Fitch!

Anonymous said...

while i supported Jimmy Houston not a sore loser congratulation to the tucker campaign.

Anonymous said...

Gives those that fought hard for thier Sheriff's Office credit. They work hard for the people and at a high standard. Houston's camp worked hard also- to his credit he does have a long successful career but just not the right fit for the Sheriff's Office. Good luck to Sheriff Tucker (assuming the win in the general election) and keep the standards high.

KaptKangaroo said...

Dupree....He's it. There you go J Kev!

Anonymous said...

RINO Knox Ross LOSES!

Anonymous said...

Randy Tucker should hold his victory party at Haute Pig Restaurant!!

Anonymous said...

MCSO race was decided tonight. The candidate i supported lost my vote in the general election will now be with Tucker.

Anonymous said...

Take a look at the paltry Dem turnout Dorsey. YOU ARE SCREWED.

Anonymous said...

Poor Luckett ,

He really needs to go have a beer with the former Hinds County Sheriff and ponder about how and why
White Democrats are rapidly becoming extinct.

We tried to tell them that they were were approaching
dinosaur status.

Neither would listen.

Anonymous said...

Kingfish? No update in almost an hour. How about some update?

Of course, your reports that are an hour late will still be ahead of the Clarion Ledger.

Anonymous said...

DuPree won. Get ready to hear alllll about Reverend Fairley.

Hello Governor Bryant.

Anonymous said...

Congrats, Josh!

Anonymous said...

Having DuPree on top of the ballot will hurt GOP chances of taking House and in some senate races-Buck Clark, Greg Snowden, Bill Denny, and not to mention Dick Hall.

Anonymous said...

As I predicted, Charles B. looses. GOP voters are smarter than all the lame pathetic antics! I hope future candidates take note.

Anonymous said...

Anyone know the results for Louvier vs. McKinley race for Madison Co. Justice Court?

Curt Crowley said...

Any word where Jimmy Houston will be throwing his tantrum tonight?

bill said...

McKinley wins by 310.

J. Kev said...

Kapt --

I haven't been right about much this election season except for this: The days of the Southern white Democrat are over.

Our state was just the last of the old Confederacy to get the memo.

Dems in the South have been puppets of the NAACP for 20 years. Guess what, crackers: you're no better than Republicans to the people who control your party now.

And I am laughing my ass off right now. You became Marxists with them, then they figured out they had numbers on you. You people are so high-minded and progressive.

And you still don't get it. That's the beauty of it all. BIG gut-laugh at white Democrats. You're worthless, and your voted now officially count for shit.

I'Ll giggle myself to sleep tonight over this...and YO Sheriff. Sweet dreams.

Shadowfax said...

Interpretation please.

Anonymous said...

Trish i do expect you to post something congratulating the Tucker campaign and not being a sore loser like you know who.

Shadowfax said...

Barber and a few others are scrambling to find a Tucker yard sign this morning.

I missed a few predictions but nailed this one. Congratulations to Houston for being a stand up candidate who fought a good contest. I guarantee you all that good law enforcement in Madison county is way more important than which horse in the Barbour-Dent stable winds up in which statewide office.

Anonymous said...

He's so cool
But he ain't too fancy
Say goodbye to
Lee Yancey

Anonymous said...

Trish for chief? I think so.

Anonymous said...

Wonder why they didn't interview Houston?

Shadowfax said...

Houston was camping out downtown outside the PERS building. First in line for retirement papers this morning.

Anonymous said...

KF, can we re post Shadowfax's brother again?

Anonymous said...

Wonder if he'll have bah bah q for lunch?

ZeusOfTheZebco said...

Where oh where is BassMaster Houston? No gracious concession speech or congratulations to Tucker?

Anonymous said...

What will Trish and Brad do now, not meaning that in a sarcastic way?

Cartman said...

Me predicts Brad Harbour will go to work as an Investigator at Ridgeland PD for Houston, right after Houston un-resigns from his fake resignation and the Board of Aldermen un-accept (wink, wink) his resignation as chief.

They can console each other every day about how bad the Fraternal-Order-of-Madison-County-Deputies-Who-Think-Houston-is-a-Tool screwed them over.

Anonymous said...

You got the current chief of RPD that endorsed Tucker. Just a weird all around situation for both Houston and Harbour. Credit to both of them for standing up and doing what they believe in along with the hard work they have put in, even though i voted for Tucker good evening has calvin lee would say.

Anonymous said...

Is KF alive or did Houston send him swimming with the fishes? We need analysis.

DWF said...

You know 'Fish has something up his sleeve.....

Shadowfax said...

Kingfish is over at the 'dock' with special permission to fish the private waters. He needed a day off while the site remains on auto-pile-it.

Anonymous said...

Then candidate Barack Hopey Dopey, July 3, 2008:

"The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents - #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back -- $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic."

Anonymous said...

Any word on who Tucker has lined up for chief?

KaptKangaroo said...

Actually, just spoke to KF and he is laying low. It was a late night with all the great partners here; blog taking a hiatus for a bit. Stay tuned, and in the infamous words of DWF, look out for what is up his sleeve...

Shadowfax said...

Since Houston is returning to Ridgeland PD, perhaps Belvedresi will return to MCSO. If I misspelled his name, I apologize, before some junior anon jumps my spelling.

Anonymous said...

We could only hope so! He made a mistake but I can tell you for a fact that he did more good than harm for the department over the years. He is truely a good person. If you don't know him and have the opportunity to meet him you will not be disappointed. Micah should even give him a second chance or vice versa.

Anonymous said...

Is Houston returning to Ridgeland PD? Does that mean his Hatch Act resignation was a sham?

Marsha said...

Thanks to Kingfish and all of the JJ readers for your support and your votes. I look forward to serving Madison County in the courtroom.

Marsha Weems Stacey

Shadowfax said...

Anon 7:53; don't know if you have access to a television or not; but, both the mayor and Houston were interviewed by Bert and the mayor said he'd like to have him back and would recommend him to the board. And Houston, when asked if he was returning, answered, "I hope so."

There is still the minimal glare of the Hatch Act violation; however, when it was brought to his attention, he resigned, thus not furthering the violation. The feds prosecute Hatch Act violations and they'd have to decide if his pre-resignation actions constitute something worthy of pursuing ~ I doubt it, especially since the man resigned his position.

And, no 7:53 anon; his resignation was not a sham. It was required of him if he was to continue his campaign for sheriff.

Although I did not vote for Houston, I am of the opinion that it was a chicken-shit move on the part of whoever the junior-lightweight was that turned him in for the apparent violation.

Anonymous said...

Marsha,

Well run.

Do our community proud.

Stick to your principles.

When the scales balance please let your integrity dictate the difference in equality.

Brittany said...

Mrs Stacey will do a fine job! Congrats again



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