Even as a push from the right to take over the Idaho Republican Party was falling short at the state level, it was succeeding beyond expectations in North Idaho, where two longtime state lawmakers were unceremoniously dumped in Tuesday’s GOP primary. A third was turned…
Finally, after a long night, Idaho's primary election results are complete. Nothing's changed with the final additions; the closest race, between state Controller Brandon Woolf and challenger Todd Hatfield, ended with Woolf winning 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent. That's a difference of 2,440 votes. You…
Now that Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden has handily defeated GOP primary challenger C.T. “Chris” Troupis, the Democratic candidate for Attorney General, Boise attorney Bruce Bistline, says he no longer plans to actively campaign for the post. “I filed on the last day,” Bistline told…
How much difference does money make in an Idaho election? Judging by the two four-way races in yesterday’s GOP primary, not a heck of a lot. Sherri Ybarra, the candidate who won the four-way race for state superintendent of schools, raised and spent by far…
Voter turnout in Idaho’s primary election yesterday was a dismal 25 percent, according to Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa, who had projected 27 percent turnout of registered voters. “I wish we could get more to turn out, more to participate,” Ysursa said. Ysursa said…
Senate Majority Caucus Chairman Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, who lost his challenge against a sitting governor of his own party in yesterday’s primary, drew a laugh when he asked the crowd at today’s traditional Republican Party “unity” rally on the state Capitol steps, “Anybody want to…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter had this explanation today for his failure to emerge from behind closed doors last night to address hundreds of supporters who awaited him at the GOP election-night watch party in a hotel ballroom: “I just don’t like to jinx myself.” Otter…
This morning, 99 percent of the vote has been counted – 937 of 942 precincts. What’s missing: Blaine County, where a tabulator malfunction disrupted vote-counting, which will be completed by about noon today in Twin Falls, according to the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office. Here’s…
Well, 92 percent of the vote has been counted now – 871 of 942 precincts statewide. But Kootenai County races are still missing in action, with only 16 percent of the vote there counted, so those results are still up in the air for now;…
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