KTBS:
Fleming received 48 percent of the vote to 47.7 percent for Carmouche, according to complete but unofficial returns. Fleming led by 356 votes out of more than 92,000 cast. Two independent candidates got the rest of the votes.
Fleming declared victory but Carmouche did not concede defeat.
Carmouche said he wants to see what happens when voting machines are rechecked on Tuesday. He said he also wanted to make sure that all provisional ballots — paper ballots cast when there is a problem at a polling place — have been counted.
Good for Carmouche. Right now we don’t know how many provisionals were even cast, and it’s conceivable there might be enough to make a difference here. Also note that the AP hasn’t called the race – they haven’t put that little red check-mark next to Fleming’s name.
Small though it may sound, 0.38% is a fairly tough margin to overcome. But I’m glad to see the Dems making sure every vote gets counted.
But i’m glad he’s still keeping the fight and seeing that all the votes be counted.
Speaking on vote counting, whats going on with OH-15 isn’t today the day we find out that Steve Stivers have won?
Too bad LA doesn’t do runoffs for House races anymore.
I got pretty down last night at seeing these results, I was so sure we were going to win it due to the case of the crazy Fleming has and since Carmouche is so well known. LA was such a tease, thought we were going to get a 4-3 majority this year instead of a 6-1 disparity.
Ad in the bragging rights we’re going to get from the right for beating Jefferson (a good thing in the long term) but if we had gotten LA-4 we could have just cancelled each other out.
Now we won’t hear then end of how they have a mandate to stop Obama groan
Which one of these just doesn’t belong here?
TX-22 – Lampson (R+15)
KS-02 – Boyda (R+7)
LA-06 – Cazayoux (R+7)
FL-16 – Mahoney (R+2)
LA-02 – Jefferson (D+28)
Louisiana is on track to lose 1 seat.
Who goes and how do we move the lines to get a 3-3 tie?