AP: Sen. Blanche Lincoln Defeats Bill Halter in AR Primary Run-Off

[Hissyspit]

Source: MSNBC

Incumbent Lincoln wins runoff over Halter
AP projects victory for two-term incumbent senator in hard-fought primary

BREAKING NEWS
msnbc.com news services
updated 3 minutes ago
Sen. Blanche Lincoln has defeated Lt. Gov. Bill Halter in a hard-fought runoff for the Democratic Senate primary nomination in Arkansas, The Associated Press projects.

The Tuesday runoff election was the second faceoff between Lincoln and Halter. Neither received over 50 percent of the vote in the May 18 primary.

Lincoln earned the ire of powerful unions for her votes on health care, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and a labor board nominee favored by union groups. The Service Employees International Unionand the AFL-CIO spent millions on the effort to unseat Lincoln, who they say is out of touch with working families. The two-term senator has battled back, enlisting the aid of former President Bill Clinton, who campaigned for her in his home state.

Lincoln will face an uphill battle against GOP Rep. John Boozman in November.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37577406/ns/politics-decision_2010/

[FLAprogressive]

1. that fucking.......[insert word of choice here]

[marmar]

2. Sen. Wal-Mart wins !!!!

[Hawkeye-X]

3. Sorry - I won't accept the call.

The lawsuit in Garland County will come in, and force the election to be invalidated due to disenfranchisement.

Politico can go suck my balls. I won't hear it from a Republican-owned source.

[bahrbearian]

42. + me

[spartan61]

4. I can't believe this!!!

Do you think there will be a lawsuit due to the voter suppression?

[Lord Magus]

46. If not then Halter's a wimp.

Nothing can excuse what happened in Garland County.

[skipos]

5. I guess MSM will claim she won due to Obama's ability to influence voters on her behalf

Yeah right.

[quakerboy]

10. All the better to blame him when she looses the GE

In the mean time, the DLCcrats here and about will be bludgeoning the rest of us with "if you had only supported her from the beginning, then we wouldn't have lost that seat".

[depakid]

6. No matter- she won't be around come 2011 in any case

Bye bye Blanche.

:hi:

(Halter probably wouldn't have been either).

[quakerboy]

20. Aint that the truth

But that won't be what the news keeps talking about when she looses. It'll be all "Obama's mandate is gone, right of center country, blah blah blah.." all the time.

Best we all keep this in mind in November, otherwise its like to be a more stressful time than it needs to be, even given the current state of existence.

[DumpDavisHogg]

7. Looks to me like Halter won. The AP has Pulaski County's numbers flipped.

Halter was winning Pulaski (Little Rock) 60%-40%. All of a sudden, it flipped to Lincoln 60%-40%.

Pulaski was supposed to be one of Halter's best counties, but the AP has it listed as one of Lincoln's best.

So that's a few thousand votes right there. Halter's won it, folks.

[James48]

11. Interesting twist, eh?

Does Blanch have Diebold machines?

[quakerboy]

13. They aint likely to fix it

and given the states position on polling places in Halter strongholds, they ain't likely to fix it either.

http://www.votenaturally.org/electionresults/index.php?ac:show:contest_statewide=1&elecid=221&contestid=4

The Arkansas SOS lists Lincoln ahead, and Pulaski is on the list of counties counted.

[DumpDavisHogg]

19. I watched the Politico map all night

It suddenly flipped from 60-40 Halter to 60-40 Lincoln. Why would a Halter stronghold do so well for Lincoln, when Lincoln lost so badly in a bunch of rural counties?

(By the way, I mean Pulaski County, not statewide.)

[quakerboy]

21. I ain't sayin its legit

All I'm sayin is "it is" and it does not appear to be a simple transcription error.

In the mean time, at least progressives can look forward to pointing out that blue dogs don't really garner Republican votes, so they are kinda useless and valueless.

[karynnj]

44. From the Daily Kos live blog, many early on said that that the early returns

were from pro-Halther precincts. Lincoln beat Halter badly in Pulaski county in the primary. (Caveat - I don't know anything about either the bloggers (though he was well respected by others or about Arkansas.)

I have seen similar large jumps in my own county in NJ, where I know the towns, that would have looked like this - yet everyone in the room would think were normal.

[jms1858]

27. You're right...

They haven't counted ALL of the votes yet...and there may be
some challenges based on the legetimacy of her 'victory'.
Stay tune...

[Freddie Stubbs]

45. Lincoln won Pulaski County by over 7000 votes:

http://www.votenaturally.org/electionresults/index.php?ac:show:trackit=1&add=1&elecid=221&contestid=4&countyid=60&pollid=

[xynthee]

8. This makes me so fucking mad!

My head is about to explode!

:mad: :grr: :nuke: :banghead:

I'm SOOO fucking sick of voters being deliberately disenfranchised in this country, and the perpetrators NEVER suffering ANY consequences.

[Fiendish Thingy]

9. Has Halter conceded yet? n/t

[Hissyspit]

14. Lincoln just gave victory speech. nt

[onehandle]

16. Yes. nt

[totodeinhere]

37. Well, that's it. If he were going to challenge this result, he wouldn't have conceded.

I really thought that Halter would pull this off. CNN is claiming that Bill Clinton's strong support might have put her over the top.

[Lord Magus]

47. The voter suppression played a bigger role.

Though Bill Clinton can go to hell for helping a Republican win the Democratic primary.

[freddie mertz]

12. Bad news, if true. nt.

[onehandle]

15. Halter has conceded. nt

[Spaldeen]

17. Piss.

Piss piss piss. Piss.

I am not sure what else to say, 'cept piss.

[Carnage251]

18. FUCK

:argh:

[lobodons]

22. While I under no circumstance would vote for an R

I would also never vote for a Corporate D. In November in this race, I would leave this selection blank.

[quakerboy]

24. At least pick a good write in

Maybe a third party? No point in wasting a vote completely. And who knows, maybe everyone else will forget to fill that section in and yours is the one vote that matters in electing a socialist.

[lobodons]

26. Flying Spaghetti Monster will get my vote

Thank you. I will revise my earlier statement. I now will vote for Flying Spaghetti Monster as a write in vote.

[quakerboy]

40. Someone else somewhere in a thread mentioned

that there may be a green party person named John Gray running, with or without an actual ballot listing. Why not look into who that person is. It might send a real message if that person were to get any significant amount of electoral support, even if only single digit numbers. FSM, not as much.

[FlyByNight]

23. The evil of two lessers: Lincoln/Boozman

Regarding the November election, I believe this is the very definition of "pick your poison."

Nauseating.

:puke:

[CLANG]

25. They sure know how to fix em down south, eh?

[primavera]

28. Aww, shit. - n/t

[wisteria]

29. Yeah!!!!!!!!! n/t

[quakerboy]

32. Contrarian?

or care to explain?

[rpannier]

30. It'll save me money

Because I'm not donating

[2Design]

31. that's too bad

[New Dawn]

33. By rigging the election.

[totodeinhere]

38. So what else is new? n/t

[Jefferson23]

34. Bill Clinton had to go in and help shit on the people..great job.

[lobodons]

35. Blanche Lincoln is to the D Party as:

A finger down the throat in an alcohol bender looking down to the porcelain God.

[name not needed]

36. And once again, corporate money wins.

[davidpdx]

39. Crap, I send $15 to help Halter's campaign and was hoping he'd win

It's midday here in Korea and I just went over to my coworkers office across the hall (he's from Kentucky) and told him. We are both being bummed out together.

[defendandprotect]

41. Sad . . . but can only think they had to go a long way to rig that result . . .!!!

And, IMO, they've been rigging our elections for decades --

I'd question it all back to Nixon/Humphrey which was a 100,000 vote squeaker??

Keep in mind the large computers used by MSM and the individual voting machines

began to come in during the mid and late 1960's --

just about the time America was passing The Voting Rights Act.


It takes political violence of every kind in order for the right wing to rise --

[bahrbearian]

43. right on