Fun video bonus: Two different views of the election
President Barack Obama and Sen. Mitch McConnell had two very different takes on what the American people were saying on Tuesday, and what they plan to do about it.
Spin Control archive for Nov. 2010
THURSDAY, NOV. 4, 2010
Today's fun video: It's the first day...of the 2012 elections
For those of you jones-ing for some campaign stuff, tired of the boredom of an election like the counting of ballots and the actual winning and losing, we present what may be considered your first Campaign 2012 video.Listen carefully as Sarah Palin borrows a phrase…
Mapping the vote: City Prop 1's failure
The City of Spokane's Proposition 1 was pretty unpopular, as the map above shows.It had some small "yes" margins around the downtown core and a few precincts to the north and south. But it went from no to "hell no" as the precincts got further…
Mapping the vote: 6th District House race 2
Republican challenger and former state Rep. John Ahern is comfortably ahead of incumbent Democrat in the 6th District House race. As this computer mapping of their vote totals shows, Ahern has large vote margins on the edges of the City of Spokane and beyond, while…
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 2010
Marr concedes to Baumgartner
Democrat state Sen. Chris Marr made up some ground in Wednesday's counting against Republican Michael Baumgartner, but Marr said it won't be enough.Marr conceded defeat a few moments ago in an interview with KHQ.His campaign just released this statement:"No matter the outcome of this election,…
Mapping the vote: Spokane County treasurer's race 1
Republican challenger Rob Chase holds a narrow lead over Democratic County Treasurer Skip Chilberg in the vote counting. But an analysis of the vote shows that Chilberg ran strongest in the city of Spokane, while Chase built his margins in the Valley and unincorporated areas.
Dare to dream ...
The GOP tidal wave is being credited with delivering election night victories to candidates at all levels of the political spectrum.Here's how Kootenai County Coroner-elect Debbie Wilkey described the 2-to-1 trouncing of her co-worker and Democratic opponent, chief deputy coroner Jody DuLuca Hissong, for the…
Mapping the vote: Spokane County assessor race
Challenger Vicki Horton is leading incumbent assessor Ralph Baker in many precincts throughout the cities of Spokane, Spokane Valley and Liberty Lake, as well as much of the unincorporated area.For this map, because both candidates are Republicans, we opted out of the standard red and…
Mapping the Vote: 6th District Senate race
Republican challenger Mike Baumgartner is beating Democratic incumbent Sen. Chris Marr in Spokane's 6th Legislative District by strong showings in precincts outside the city of Spokane.This map shows vote percentages from the end of election night.
Mapping the vote: Spokane County commissioner race 1
The race for Spokane County commissioner, between incumbent Democrat Bonnie Mager and Republican challenger Al French, is currently close, with French holding a lead of about 1,000 votes. But it wasn't close all over the county. As the map of the ballots counted Tuesday night,…
Mid-term turnout highest in Spokane County since 1970
Election officials say a big surge of votes in the final day likely will push voter turnout over 70 percent in Spokane County.Election drop boxes in a few cases filled up, and election workers had to make extra trips to collect them, said Spokane County…
Baumgartner's lead appears insurmountable; City isn't underrepresented in vote totals
At the end of counting last night, many local Democrats said they suspected that votes from the city of Spokane were under-represented in Tuesday's counts.Since the city leans strongly in favor of Democrats, that would bode well for the party in later counts. But Spokane…
How close for recount?
The tight race for U.S. Senate would have to get noticeably tighter to trigger a mandatory recount.Although tens of thousands of ballots have yet to be counted statewide, including more than 100,000 in King County alone, incumbent Democrat Patty Murray's current lead over Republican challenger…
Next year's Legislative split, if trends hold
Democrats will hold a three-seat majority in the state Senate and an eight-seat majority in the state House if current trends in election results hold.That's a fairly big if, considering several of the races are within a couple percentage points and subject to change. One,…
Both sides in Senate race 'figure' on a win 2
Patty Murray and Dino Rossi both think the numbers are on their side for a win in Washington's close U.S. Senate race.Republican challenger Rossi's campaign released a statement late Tuesday night citing his favorite statistics that would make the race go his way. Among them…
TUESDAY, NOV. 2, 2010
Two vote totals tonight in Spokane County
Spokane County will release two rounds of vote totals tonight, one shortly after voting closes at 8 p.m., and another between 10:30 and 11 p.m.Old election hands can remember when the county had poll site voting and would release up to a dozen updates on…
Run for prosecutor ignores law 5
Deputy Kootenai County Prosecutor Jim Reierson has been campaigning for write-in votes for the top prosecutor spot in Spokane County, but it's a race he can't legally win.Running as a candidate who prefers the "Law and Order" Party, Reierson lost his bid for that job…
Candidates race to finish line
Candidates for Washington's top electoral prize, a U.S. Senate seat that could determine which party controls that chamber of Congress for the next two years, started their full final day of the campaign at dawn, on opposite sides of the state.Republican challenger Dino Rossi had…
MONDAY, NOV. 1, 2010
This is it: Last day to vote 3
Months of television commercials, weeks of campaign mailers and days of street-corner sign waving end today. The election is now out of the hands of the candidates and the consultants, and in the hands of the voters.In Washington, which has all-mail voting in all counties…
Not all write-ins will -- or can -- count 2
Voters who are unhappy with their choices for a particular office and are thinking of writing in another candidate should take note: You’re free to write in any name you want in any race on the ballot if you think it will "send a message."But…
The last frenetic days of the Murray-Rossi race
Washington's U.S. Senate candidates spend Election Day eve attacking the Puget Sound from different directions.Republican challenger Dino Rossi started south and moved north along the I-5 corridor. He began with a morning rally in Vancouver, had a noon rally in Puyallup and a Bellevue rally…
Today's fun video: That was the campaigns that were
It's been a long road to election day, and there have been some ground breaking and mind boggling videos. One site rates the top 13 videos of the political season, from Jimmy McMillan's "The Rent is Too Damn High" speech to Christine O'Donnell's "I'm not…
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