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Election McGinn's Lead Grows
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM
About 20,000 ballots just released by King County Elections show that Mike McGinn's advantage in the Seattle mayor's race is growing—slightly. McGinn had a 515-vote lead yesterday; now he leads Joe Mallahan by 1,209 votes. In terms of percentage of the vote, McGinn led by 0.4 percent yesterday, but he now has a 0.8 percent advantage.
Mike McGinn 75,657 49.99%
Joe Mallahan 74,448 49.19%
Write-in 1240 0.82%
All the King County election results are here.
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Feeling a little better, but I'd still like us to get over 50% like we were on election night.
Maybe the 10pm update will bring an even wider margin. *fingers crossed*
Maybe the 10pm update will bring an even wider margin. *fingers crossed*
3
If the election were over today, we'd be out of recount range. It will be interesting to see how the next few vote dumps come out. If things don't improve soon, Joe is sunk.
4
this takes things out of the auto recount zone for now as you need <2000 vote diff AND <.5% diff
woohoo!
woohoo!
5
sweet. i hope mallahan is crapping himself. more than $230k sunk into a race that he ends up losing? what a dope.
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@6 still winning handily but the vote gap between 1033 and 71 total ballots in King County is worrisome.
oh, by the way ... RANDOM DANCING!!!
oh, by the way ... RANDOM DANCING!!!
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hmmm. did Jesse Israel pick up some more votes in that batch? it looks a lot closer than yesterday ...
9
Wooohooo!
Mallahan wouldn't make a bad mayor, but hearing him speak always reminds me of bad corporate motivational speakers (are there good ones?). System... principle pillars... system... principle pillars. Gah, shut up, please shut up.
Mallahan wouldn't make a bad mayor, but hearing him speak always reminds me of bad corporate motivational speakers (are there good ones?). System... principle pillars... system... principle pillars. Gah, shut up, please shut up.
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It's probably mostly King County, but the state numbers for 71 have bumped up a bit.
http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/Results…
http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/Results…
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To put it into perspective, to close the deal, Mallahan needs to hit 60%+ of the remaining votes to make up the deficit, but the trend is not in his favor. He did not have the ground game or the last minute GOTV McGinn had.
Those 4,700 would still require him to hit 55%+, but again, the trends were never in his favor. He only had one day where he was up over 50%, and that was barely.
Those 4,700 would still require him to hit 55%+, but again, the trends were never in his favor. He only had one day where he was up over 50%, and that was barely.
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@16 Let's also keep in mind that the 4700 number includes all of King County, not just Seattle.
Also, we are way out of recount range now. If Mallahan wants a recount, it will cost him 15 cents per ballot.
Also, we are way out of recount range now. If Mallahan wants a recount, it will cost him 15 cents per ballot.
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