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jct74
05-06-2014, 05:25 PM
polls close at 7:30 ET, results here:

http://enr.ncsbe.gov/ElectionResults/?election_dt=05/06/2014
http://www.politico.com/2014-election/results/map/house/north-carolina/#.U2lwCIFdXTo
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2014/by_state/NC_US_House_0506.html


99.6% Reporting

W. Jones 50.9%
T. Griffin 45.0%
A. Novinec 4.0%

Tywysog Cymru
05-06-2014, 06:12 PM
2.1% reporting

Jones: 55.2%
Griffin: 40.8%
Novinec: 4.0%

CaseyJones
05-06-2014, 06:20 PM
woot go Walter!

jct74
05-06-2014, 06:21 PM
5.4% Reporting

W. Jones 65.0%
T. Griffin 32.3%
A. Novinec 2.7%

specsaregood
05-06-2014, 06:24 PM
Go walter.

anaconda
05-06-2014, 06:32 PM
5.4% Reporting

W. Jones 65.0%
T. Griffin 32.3%
A. Novinec 2.7%

I hope Palin feels very dirty.

Here's an article today about the neocons (that includes you, Palin...) funding the opposition:

http://www.thenation.com/blog/179701/neoconservative-super-pac-bets-big-north-carolina-gop-primary-challenge

William Tell
05-06-2014, 06:33 PM
Walter Jones
REP
5,504
54.02 %


Taylor Griffin
REP
4,224
41.46 %



Precincts Reported: 67 of 241

http://enr.ncsbe.gov/ElectionResults/

jct74
05-06-2014, 06:34 PM
16.6% Reporting

W. Jones 51.8%
T. Griffin 45.3%
A. Novinec 3.0%

http://www.politico.com/2014-election/results/map/house/north-carolina/#.U2l_hYFdXTq

jct74
05-06-2014, 06:59 PM
this link has Jones up 51-45
http://www.politico.com/2014-election/results/map/house/north-carolina/#.U2mFGIFdXTr

this link has Griffin up 50-47
http://enr.ncsbe.gov/ElectionResults/?election_dt=05/06/2014

William Tell
05-06-2014, 07:03 PM
Taylor Griffin REP 6,797 50.25 % Walter Jones REP 6,341 46.88 % Al (Big Al) Novinec REP 389 2.88 % 62 of 230

supermario21
05-06-2014, 07:05 PM
Fortunately we're just 25% counted.

juleswin
05-06-2014, 07:15 PM
Oh jeeze, I hope he pulls ahead. He is one of the good guys

jkob
05-06-2014, 07:29 PM
wth is up with the different numbers

jct74
05-06-2014, 07:38 PM
AP link is consistent with Politico numbers, Jones up 52-45 with 53% reported.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2014/by_state/NC_US_House_0506.html

William R
05-06-2014, 07:52 PM
With 58 percent reporting

Jones 52

Griffin 45

It's over.

jct74
05-06-2014, 07:53 PM
Precincts Reporting - 64%

Jones, Walter 52%
Griffin, Taylor 45%
Novinec, Al 4%


looking good, I think this one's almost over

Brett85
05-06-2014, 07:56 PM
What's with the difference in the numbers?

William R
05-06-2014, 07:59 PM
Jones up by 2000

TaftFan
05-06-2014, 08:01 PM
Precincts Reporting - 64%

Jones, Walter 52%
Griffin, Taylor 45%
Novinec, Al 4%


looking good, I think this one's almost over


As you posted this, the state website only had 60% reported.

So how did POLITICO get the numbers first?

juleswin
05-06-2014, 08:05 PM
NC website shows Griffin winning

William Tell
05-06-2014, 08:08 PM
AP has more votes in than the NC site
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2014/by_state/NC_US_House_0506.html
http://enr.ncsbe.gov/ElectionResults/

William R
05-06-2014, 08:11 PM
The Emergency Committee for Israel spent 500k against Jones and 500k supporting Griffin, per OpenSecrets.

William R
05-06-2014, 08:12 PM
Jones has been declared winner.

William Tell
05-06-2014, 08:18 PM
AP called it for Walter Jones!

sluggo
05-06-2014, 08:25 PM
Nice!

Good news on a very sad night.

devil21
05-06-2014, 08:29 PM
Thank god for that. A couple other liberty folks won or made it to runoffs in NC too so it's not a total loss.

Warlord
05-06-2014, 09:09 PM
Go Walter

Badger Paul
05-06-2014, 09:42 PM
Another solid win for Jones against the neocons and other assorted reptiles.

RandallFan
05-06-2014, 10:56 PM
Walter Jones is the only one who will definitely win in November. I think it was the biggest general election winner in NC in 2012. I know his district is red but the others were in closer races.

I wouldn't rule out a third party or some people voting Democrat just to punish really bad establishment candidates. Im glad McIntyre won in 2012.

jurgs01
05-06-2014, 11:27 PM
Thank god for that. A couple other liberty folks won or made it to runoffs in NC too so it's not a total loss.

I give NC a B- for this primary:
Walter Jones and Vince Coakley won their primaries for Congress. Mark Walker looks headed to a runoff.
Mattie Lawson, Larry Pittman, and Mike Clampitt won their State House races.
Paul Wright, Johnathan Jordan, Michael Speciale, Molotov Mitchell, and Richard Rivette all were uncontested and get to move on.
No primary losses of liberty candidates or fellow travelers in NC, and a lot of chances for pickups. Homeruns are great, but singles and sacrifice bunts win games. Keep fighting for liberty!

Indiana did okay too.

Ohio just tanked. I couldn't find a single liberty candidate or fellow traveler.

William Tell
05-06-2014, 11:48 PM
I give NC a B- for this primary:
Walter Jones and Vince Coakley won their primaries for Congress. Mark Walker looks headed to a runoff.
Mattie Lawson, Larry Pittman, and Mike Clampitt won their State House races.
Paul Wright, Johnathan Jordan, Michael Speciale, Molotov Mitchell, and Richard Rivette all were uncontested and get to move on.
No primary losses of liberty candidates or fellow travelers in NC, and a lot of chances for pickups. Homeruns are great, but singles and sacrifice bunts win games. Keep fighting for liberty!

Indiana did okay too.

Ohio just tanked. I couldn't find a single liberty candidate or fellow traveler.

Who were the winners in Indiana?

anaconda
05-06-2014, 11:50 PM
This election, for me, exposed Sarah Palin as a permanent persona non grata.

Anti-Neocon
05-06-2014, 11:57 PM
Palin has always been useful idiot at best, and still is.
http://dont-tread-on.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Palin-Israel-Pin3.jpg

Hyperion
05-07-2014, 02:20 AM
I'm glad Walter Jones held on but the margin is very disconcerting. If anything I would expect this outcome to embolden the establishment. We're going to have to do a lot of work to protect Jones in 2016.

Very frustrating outcomes tonight for us, we barely hold on with a great incumbent while Brannon loses to an establishment hack.

Combined with our futility in South Carolina, in ability to get Paul Broun solidly in front, among other races it's all quite troubling to be honest. We need to rethink our strategies because GOP primaries SHOULD be our easiest part of the campaign yet they aren't.

specsaregood
05-07-2014, 05:12 AM
The Emergency Committee for Israel spent 500k against Jones and 500k supporting Griffin, per OpenSecrets.

I can't think of a group of people I more enjoy seeing waste 1milliondollars.

jct74
05-07-2014, 09:50 AM
I'm glad Walter Jones held on but the margin is very disconcerting. If anything I would expect this outcome to embolden the establishment. We're going to have to do a lot of work to protect Jones in 2016.

Very frustrating outcomes tonight for us, we barely hold on with a great incumbent while Brannon loses to an establishment hack.


Really? I felt pretty much the opposite about the outcome of this race, considering all the money that was spent against him and the Palin endorsement, he still won by a decent margin (6 points).

Lucille
05-07-2014, 04:10 PM
I was pretty worried.

Bravo, Rep. Walter Jones ! Primary Win Sends Neocons Packing
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/bravo-rep-walter-jones-primary-win-sends-neocons-packing/


...He broke with the Bush White House and became a relentless, informed, passionate and persuasive critic of not only the Iraq fiasco—-but also the entire interventionist foreign policy of the War Party.

Not surprisingly, the latter went after him hammer and tong in his recent primary—-a challenge almost unheard of for 20-year incumbent. The whole Bush White House crowd that destroyed the GOP commitment to fiscal discipline, bailed-out Wall Street and GM and launched disastrous wars of invasion and occupation in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, and countless lesser arenas joined the attack. The heavy artillery included the detestable Karl Rove, former Governor and RNC Chair Haley Barber and the War Party’s highly paid chief PR flack, Ari Fleischer.

But it was Neocon central that hauled out the big guns. Bill Kristol was so desperate to thwart the slowly rising anti-interventionist tide within the GOP that he even trotted out Sarah Palin to endorse Jones’s opponent. The latter, Taylor Griffin, is a former Washington lobbyist and PR hack—the very kind of beltway lifer that Palin made a short-lived career remonstrating against. But when it comes to perpetuating the Neocon grip on the GOP, the neocon bankroll speaks with a loud voice:


Paul’s fervent support is one reason why some National Security hawks poured money into the race to support Griffin in a district that is also home to the Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune. The Emergency Committee for Israel, which is affiliated with Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, spent six-figures running ads for Griffin against Jones, who has the support of the liberal J Street group.

Once he took up the campaign to reverse America’s unaffordable and counter-productive imperialist foreign policy, Rep. Jones did not hesitate to link it back to decades of Warfare State folly–reaching all the way back to LBJ’s calamity in Vietnam.


“Congress will not hold anyone to blame,” Jones recently said at an event for former Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) Young Americans for Liberty group in North Carolina. “Lyndon Johnson’s probably rotting in hell right now because of the Vietnam War, and he probably needs to move over for Dick Cheney.”

Imagine that! Walter Jones is a conservative Congressman from western NC which is home to Fort Lejeune. He is also the son of a 26-year Democratic Congressman whom I served with in the House and whom I recall had no problem supporting Lyndon Johnson’s carnage in South East Asia.

Rep. Walter Jones Jr. won his primary yesterday, and with some margin to spare.

Hope springs eternal!

anaconda
05-10-2014, 04:50 AM
A different Jewish group gave $10,000 to Walter Jones' campaign:

http://forward.com/articles/197877/j-street-backed-gop-incumbent-walter-jones-survive/