Official results from today's VA primaries

[Yom]

For the 8th (Amit Singh) and 10th (Vern McKinley) districts. Not yet updated, but polls have closed for the day as of 10 minutes ago.

https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/DATA/2008/1F04BDCA-048C-407E-9518-82294DEC67C5/Unofficial/6_s.shtml

[Jeremy]

Amit is currently winning by 11 votes :D

[winston_blade]

An opening lead by Amit.

[richardfortherepublic]

Amit K. Singh takes an early lead with 61 votes (54.95%), against Mark W. Ellmore's 50 votes, 45.04%.


1.3% precincts showing.


shweeet.

[Jeremy]

By the way.... I want to brag for a second because I was one of the first people to introduce Amit to RPF. :P Good luck to him!

[Jeremy]

Still ahead! 30 votes ahead now!!

unfortunately Vern is losing... but that is expected (incumbent...). I hope to see him in future elections if he does in fact lose =) so i won't worry too much, all of these guys (besides Murray) are running for the first time and have a long way to go if they don't at first succeed

[brandon]

Is it too early to call the election for Wolf?

[malkusm]

Hmm Amit is doing well....McKinley, not so much

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Amit: 180 votes
Ellmore: 151 votes

Precincts Reporting: 5 of 155

In other news, Wolf is leading McKinley 95%-5%. That race is over.

[winston_blade]

Is it too early to call the election for Wolf?

Prolly not, but you never know.

[winston_blade]

Amit is down now.....

[Michael Ingram]

Amit's losing and McKinley is getting absolutely demolished

[torchbearer]

Is it too early to call the election for Wolf?

yeh, there are only 185 votes counted. Wolf stacked the absentee votes.

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Ellmore leading by about 50 votes with 9% of the votes counted.

[torchbearer]

Voter Turnout: 0.069%

[RonPaulFanInGA]

I gotta admit, if the establish guy wins, it's no a gigantic deal. Jim Moran is a very entrenched incumbent, and Ellmore will get destroyed in November.

But that's getting ahead of myself. Go Amit!

[Jeremy]

I gotta admit, if the establish guy wins, it's no a gigantic deal. Jim Moran is a very entrenched incumbent, and Ellmore will get destroyed in November.

But that's getting ahead of myself. Go Amit!

ya, and we'll have to make sure Amit runs again too =p

same with all of these guys...

[dw1345]

Amit's currently down by about 70 votes. Luckily, there's still over 100 precincts left to report.

[Michael Ingram]

At least Sing better f'ing win

[malkusm]

Down by 120 votes (54% to 46%)....18% reporting

[dw1345]

Does anyone know if Amit is stronger in Arlington? They haven't reported yet and it may give him a boost?

[nate895]

How do you think the Arlington and Falls Church vote will come in? It appears as if Alexandria will be close whoever wins, and that Ellmore will probably win Fairfax County.

[dw1345]

How do you think the Arlington and Falls Church vote will come in? It appears as if Alexandria will be close whoever wins, and that Ellmore will probably win Fairfax County.

It seems like most of Amit's fundraisers and events took place in Arlington so I'm hoping he'll be stronger there.

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Poor McKinley. He is getting just massacred.

[skiingff]

How do you think the Arlington and Falls Church vote will come in? It appears as if Alexandria will be close whoever wins, and that Ellmore will probably win Fairfax County.

Amit is from Arlington and should pull a strong following there.

Fairfax might kill him though...

[dw1345]

Ellmore's lead keeps growing...

[malkusm]

Here's hoping Alexandria doesn't decide the election.

Ellmore 753 53.44%
Singh 656 46.55%
Precincts reporting: 26 out of 27

[Jeremy]

1) They should run again
2) If Amit does lose, the bright side is that we can focus funds on Lawson's race

just looking at the good side of everything =)

[dw1345]

Amit's going to have to show EXTREMELY well in Arlington in order to win. If not, here's to hoping Moran crushes the sh*t out of Ellmore in November.

[Romantarchist]

Even if Amit loses this time around, it's still a very close race, which should send the establishment GOP a message that their time is short and the Constitutional GOP movement is here to stay. If Amit runs again in 2010, Ellmore or whomever decides to compete probably won't be as lucky.

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Ellmore is DOA against Moran.

[Jeremy]

Amit's going to have to show EXTREMELY well in Arlington in order to win. If not, here's to hoping Moran crushes the sh*t out of Ellmore in November.

i dont know how any of our candidates (or anyone) can beat incumbent democrats in 2008... so ya, it's not TOO bad. and im sure Ellmore will be destroyed very easily.

The bright side of some of the candidates losing primaries is that we can focus on just a few races... like Lawson

[skiingff]

Amit's going to have to show EXTREMELY well in Arlington in order to win. If not, here's to hoping Moran crushes the sh*t out of Ellmore in November.

He should do extremely well in Arlington...but it is smaller than Fairfax County. Close race though, for just jumping in 2 months ago, while Ellmore has been campaigning for 2 years...

Not too bad!!!

[dw1345]

i dont know how any of our candidates (or anyone) can beat incumbent democrats in 2008... so ya, it's not TOO bad. and im sure Ellmore will be destroyed very easily.

The bright side of some of the candidates losing primaries is that we can focus on just a few races... like Lawson

Very true. Plus, the fact that Amit is doing as good as he is against someone who has been running 5x longer than him shows that he'll be able to win next time around when he has more time to run.

[stevedasbach]

How do you think the Arlington and Falls Church vote will come in? It appears as if Alexandria will be close whoever wins, and that Ellmore will probably win Fairfax County.

My wife and I voted for him in Falls Church, VA, so that's two.:)

[malkusm]

Amit seemed very well organized, presented himself well, had a good website....

I agree, he's a good candidate and he should stick with it if he doesn't win this one. Very impressive.

[mrchubbs]

I'm feeling pretty bad for Vern, his family, and his hard work.

I know the campaign has been very trying for him and his family so I will drink a toast to liberty in honor of his effort to unseat one of the most beloved big government Congressman in Virginia.

Thank You Vern.

[dw1345]

The only thing that pisses me off about all of this is knowing that Ellmores false mailer may have affected this.

[Romantarchist]

I admire the optimism of this thread. If we win, that's great. If we lose, that's also great, because now we're more knowledgeable, wiser, and more experienced and our chances of winning next time become better because of this. :)



The bright side of some of the candidates losing primaries is that we can focus on just a few races... like Lawson

I see...perhaps we're dividing and conquering ourselves?

I suggest supporting Richard Matthew's race in Maryland, but that's just me.

[Jeremy]

I admire the optimism of this thread. If we win, that's great. If we lose, that's also great, because now we're more knowledgeable, wiser, and more experienced and our chances of winning next time become better because of this. :)



I see...perhaps we're dividing and conquering ourselves?

I suggest supporting Richard Matthew's race in Maryland, but that's just me.

Unfortunately I highly doubt any Maryland Republicans have a chance...

[malkusm]

Ellmore's lead now 150 votes, 2 more precincts in (55%-45%)

Both precincts were in Fairfax, Ellmore leading 66% to 34% there....

[Jeremy]

Ellmore's lead now 150 votes, 2 more precincts in (55%-45%)

Both precincts were in Fairfax, Ellmore leading 66% to 34% there....

um... doesn't the site say "33 of 155"

[malkusm]

Unfortunately I highly doubt any Maryland Republicans have a chance...

Of those running now, no....but Maryland is heavily red outside of PG/Montgomery/Baltimore counties.

[malkusm]

um... doesn't the site say "33 of 155"

2 more precincts than had previously reported, just reported.

I apologize for the confusion.

[dw1345]

One other thing to point out. Amit is very young. He has a lot of time to establish himself in the district and make another run in a few more years. I have no doubt that he will one day, even if that day isn't today, win.

[dw1345]

Well, most of Arlington just reported in and Amit won there. The bad news is he barely won and the turnout was pathetic.

[malkusm]

IT JUST GOT CLOSER!!!!!!!!

Amit down by only 110 votes, 52% to 48%!!!

54% of precincts reporting!!!

[malkusm]

Although yeah, that's a bummer that all those precincts were from Arlington and we're still behind.

But I'm holding out hope, this is an incredibly close race right now.

[dw1345]

0.6% turnout in Arlington? That's not so great....

[Jeremy]

btw, Jim Moran is beating his primary opponent as much as Wolf is beating McKinely

incumbents.... who needs them

[dw1345]

Holy smokes, it just got closer. He's only losing by about 64 votes as i type. 49% to 51%

It seemsthat the Arlington numbers changed, but it still says 50 of 51 precincts reporting. What happened?

[malkusm]

Another Falls Church precinct just reported....Amit made up 46 votes, so he's now within 64. Almost a dead heat, 51% to 49%.....

[Jeremy]

omg, Amit is only 65 votes away *covers eyes* I can't watch!!!

[Michael Ingram]

Singh is catching up...

[Jeremy]

If Amit loses, his supporters are probably going to feel awful... I mean it's so close, you could probably get that many votes just by walking around the towns... but who knew =O

[malkusm]

This would be a huge victory, for a candidate with no experience to run a 2 month campaign and win.

I'm very interested to see how Lawson does, and Singh if he wins this - both against incumbent Dems in November. We've always said that RP Republicans are the only ones who could beat a Dem in this election cycle, right? ;)

[kirkblitz]

can i get a link to the results?

[malkusm]

https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/DATA/2008/1F04BDCA-048C-407E-9518-82294DEC67C5/Unofficial/6_s.shtml

[nate895]

This is just too close. I hope the rest of Fairfax isn't that bad for Amit, he can still pull it off.

[Rangeley]

Hes cloing in on Ellmore. 49-51.

[malkusm]

I have to believe Ellmore doesn't have a 65/35 stranglehold on Fairfax. It's too far out of line with the rest of the district.

Or at least, that's what I'm going to keep telling myself ;)

Anyone up there in NOVA that can tell us, is this being covered on the news at all?

[malkusm]

Now 88 votes behind....that was the last Alexandria precinct that just reported.

[dw1345]

At least Alexandria is in the books. The trend there seemed to be that as more precincts reported, Amit didn't do as well. Let's hope thats not the case with Falls Church and Fairfax.

[dw1345]

You guys, something wierd is going on with Arlington's results. They've changed about three different times now while the precincts reported has stayed the same. Who's tinkering with the results?

[malkusm]

I saw that....the only change to the overall results page seems to be that Ellmore lost a vote....shhhhhh

[malkusm]

Amit made up a few, now trailing by 78 votes. That was the last precinct from Arlington, where Amit won 53% to 47%....

[RPTXState]

We need a reverse in Fairfax county or it's over.

[dw1345]

We need a reverse in Fairfax county or it's over.

Unfortunately, you're right :(

[Yom]

Not even a reverse, just a slight edge. Ellmore's just up by 78 votes.

[dw1345]

Another precinct in for Falls Church. Ellmore's lead grows...

[CoreyBowen999]

:/

[tonesforjonesbones]

So? What happened?????? TONES

[nate895]

What are the odds of an exactly 1950-1800 result at this particular point?

[dw1345]

Well, Fairfax county seems to be going pretty heavily for Mark Ellmore. I would like to take this oppurtunity to thank Amit for his hard run campaign and for promoting liberty in the district. I hope he decides to run again in a few years. Cheers Amit!

[CoreyBowen999]

52 to 48%

[nate895]

Well, Fairfax county seems to be going pretty heavily for Mark Ellmore. I would like to take this oppurtunity to thank Amit for his hard run campaign and for promoting liberty in the district. I hope he decides to run again in a few years. Cheers Amit!

It isn't over yet.

[dw1345]

What are the odds of an exactly 1950-1800 result at this particular point?

and, on top of that an exactly 52%-48% result. Something is definately screwy here.

[nate895]

and, on top of that an exactly 52%-48% result. Something is definately screwy here.

Well, that is a side effect of the 1950-1800 vote result.

[tonesforjonesbones]

I hope singh can pull it off...TONES

[malkusm]

Well it looks as if it may be out of reach now. Ellmore is pulling away with his strength in Fairfax....

[MRoCkEd]

damn - amit lost by 10 and vern by 80

[Michael Ingram]

ouch...

[kirkblitz]

i would ask for a recount if i lost by 10 votes

[Jeremy]

i would ask for a recount if i lost by 10 votes

percent not votes

anyway, we need to focus on the Lawson campaign now that less people are running

wait another 2 years to support these other guys again

Lawson needs our support now, and trust me, he is very dedicated to this. i knew murray and vern wouldnt win. i wasnt sure about amit. I knew Lawson would easily win his primary... let's continue this to November by donating now. Right now they're raising money to give out Constitutions (with Lawson ad thing inside)
https://www.lawsonforcongress.com/donate/

[RonPaulFever]

They both lost. Fantastic.