Rodriguez kicking Cuellar's butt in Texas!

[NastyRiffraff]

So, far, as of 9:16pm Texas time:

Cuellar: 5,016
Morales: 983
Rodriguez: 8,585
Total votes:14,584
Precincts reported: 98
Total precincts: 276

Cuellar is WORSE DINO than Lieberman. Pray to all the gods you know this trend holds.

[IndyOp]

1. MyDD live-blogging - predicts Cuellar win...

http://www.mydd.com

With 36% of the vote counted, current totals: Ciro 8,585 (58.87%) -- Cuellar 5,016 (34.39%) -- Morales 983 (6.74%). Current Overall Projection: Cuellar 52.47%. We need to start pulling this back very soon.

[Wilms]

2. OK. Who's Ciro? Is he the Rodriquez.

I'm a bit confused by three candidates, and four names.

[madfloridian]

3. Ciro Rodriguez being supported by DFA, Kos, etc.

Against Henry Cuellar who sat with the GOP side during the SOTU. He is the one who had his face squeezed by Bush.

[karynnj]

5. He is also supporter by Kerry and lots of H of R people.

He had a list of these people who endorsed him, Kerry's PAC also gave him money.

[madfloridian]

9. I did not think I needed to list everyone. I thought of those two first.

Yes, I know he was endorsed by Kerry....

[karynnj]

13. I thought it significant that many H of R people

were endorsing a peer's rival in the primary - it's pretty unusual and Kerry was (at least at one time the only Senator). I was just adding relevant info - I have no way of knowing what you know.

[NastyRiffraff]

4. Sorry, here are the full names:

Henry Cuellar (DINO Incumbent)
Victor Morales
Ciro Rodriguez (good guy)

Update:
Cuellar: 6,767
Morales: 1,313
Rodriguez: 10,041

128 out of 276 precincts reporting

[Wilms]

8. Perfect. Thank you for appreciating the dilemma. n/t

[IndyOp]

7. Ciro is named by his first name, 'cuz he is our bud. (nt)

:hi:

[IndianaGreen]

6. What's this about problems with touchscreen machines?

This is going bad. We are going to need Morales to take away a lot of votes from Cuellar in Webb County. Of course, Webb County, Cuellar's stronghold, still hasn't reported yet due to problems with touchscreen machines, or something. I'm really starting to get pissed off about that.

http://www.mydd.com/

[snowbear]

10. Why are the Democrat results coming in so fast.... and the...

..Republican results coming in so slow?

These sites show for the Democrats, 143 precincts have reported in.

For the Republicans, 21 precincts have reported in.

Am I reading this stuff wrong?

Democratic results ~~ http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/dem1race5.htm?x=0&y=0&id=847

Republican results ~~ http://204.65.107.70/rep1race5.htm?x=0&y=0&id=290

[Arugula Latte]

11. They're saying Webb (Cuellar's country) is holding back vote counts

until they know how many they need to put Cuellar over the top. :grr:

[GOPisEvil]

12. It worked in 2004...

[MissWaverly]

14. Why don't the dems hold back until the Repug districts are counted

this is what happened when Hackett ran against Schmidt in Ohio, how many times can they
pley this trick?

[NastyRiffraff]

15. Christ! The fix is in.

Webb is the only county with no results. Could they possibly be more transparent?

GO CIRO!

[okasha]

16. The Webb County machines are brand new.

They've been having trouble with the things ever since they came in, in January. They had problems last week, during early voting. Fortunately, Webb is one of the few places with machines where a voter still has the option of a paper ballot. Results from two types of ballots may account for some of the delay.

[IndianaGreen]

17. Why are we still accepting machines to count votes?

What's the point of voting when the outcome is already pre-programmed?

[debatepro]

18. fixed

Webb county totals in... Ceullar by 1300 votes.

http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/dem1race5.htm?x=0&y=329&id=557

[Freddie Stubbs]

19. Who are 'they' that is saying this?

:shrug:

[Freddie Stubbs]

20. Dallas Morning News|Cuellar leads Rodriguez in congressional grudge match

03/08/2006

By T.A. BADGER / Associated Press


With thousands of votes yet to be counted in his home county, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar held a small lead over former congressman Ciro Rodriguez early Wednesday in the Democratic primary in House District 28.

If early-voting results in Webb County are any guide, Cuellar will capture the vast majority of those outstanding ballots and avoid an April runoff election.

With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Cuellar had 53 percent of the ballots tallied. Rodriguez, who narrowly lost to Cuellar in the 2004 primary in the South Texas district, had 41 percent. Victor Morales had 2,534 votes, or 6 percent.

Cuellar, a Laredoan who had trailed most of Tuesday night, took the lead when the early voting results in Webb County were tabulated. He won about 87 percent of those 9,388 votes.

The tabulation of Webb's early votes was delayed several hours because of software problems with the vote-counting machines, according to the Texas Secretary of State's office.

more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8G7CAIG0.html