11:16pm: Move over, Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint, because the GOP has a new kingmaker, and his name is Dale Peterson. With John McMillan haven gotten the Peterson Bump, he sent Dummy back to his chicken farm, 52-48. (That’s with 2800 out of 2804 precincts reporting, although there’s still no call from the AP. Because they’re thorough like that.) (Um, with that, I think we’re going to call it a night.)
10:10pm: In what I’m sure is a case of a late-breaking surge of former Dale Peterson supporters, John McMillan has pushed into the lead in the Agriculture Commissioner GOP primary, 51-49, over that sign-stealing cur, “Dummy” Dorman Grace.
10:05pm: In case you’re wondering, Sewell will face off in November against Donald Chamberlain, who won the AL-07 GOP runoff over C. Salter 57-43. In other news, congratulations to future Rep. Terri Sewell.
10:02pm: And with about 80% reporting, the AP has finally called AL-07, in favor of Terri Sewell. She wins 56-44, after outspending Shelia Smoot almost 10:1.
10:00pm: This is way down in the weeds, but the delightfully-named Twinkle Cavanaugh has won the GOP runoff for Public Service Commission Position 1, 61-39.
9:56pm: At the federal level, that leaves just AL-07. And with Shelia Smoot losing Jefferson County 53-47 (that’s the county where she’s a Commissioner), that doesn’t bode well for her chances.
9:52pm: And hot on the heels of that, the AP calls AL-02 for Martha Roby. She’s at 61%, over Rick Barber, and she’ll face Bobby Bright in November. In the meantime, Zombie Lincoln must cry himself to sleep tonight, his nation condemned to health care slavery.
9:49pm: The AP has called AL-Gov for Robert Bentley. He’ll face Ron Sparks in the fall.
9:33pm: Looks like more whimper than bang. Bentley 57, Roby 61, Sewell 54.
9:20pm: With 30% reporting, Bentley is crushing, 56-44. So is Roby (22% in), 58-42. Sewell (20% in) has widened her lead to 55-45.
9:09pm: Bentley up by more than 7 points now with 15% in statewide.
9:08pm: More results are coming in. AL-07 has shot up to 15% reporting, and the race has tightened to 53-47 Sewell.
9:00pm: Time, fortunately, appears to have resumed its forward progress. With 7% in, Bentley has a 59-41 lead. With 6% in, Roby is at 72%. AL-07 still stuck on 2%.
8:45pm: Some eleven-dimensional superstrings have wriggled a few AL-07 results into existence – for now. Terri Sewell leads Shelia Smoot 57-43 with about 2% (maybe???) reporting.
8:42pm: Hahah – this has been pretty funny. Now we’re down to 1% in AL-Gov, but the vote totals actually keep increasing. Bentley leads 62-38, 2,727 to 1,666 votes. Forget about a ganja break – this has been more like an LSD break.
8:37pm: The DeLorean has hit 88mph, because we are travelling BACK THROUGH TIME. The AP is now down to less than 2% reporting in the gov race, or as I like to call it, the Curious Election of Benjamin Button.
8:30pm: Hmm, wonder if that was an error on the AP’s part. We’re now down to just 3% reporting, with a 56-44 Bentley lead. Over in AL-02, 1% is reporting, and Martha Roby has a 69-31 lead over Rick “The Barber” Barber. Nothing in AL-07 yet.
8:19pm: A teeny trickle of results are in so far. With 7% of precincts reporting, Robert Bentley has a 52-48 lead over Bradley Byrne in the gov race – though that translates to just 718 votes to 653.
We’re watching runoffs in a trio of Alabama races tonight: AL-Gov & AL-02 on the Republican side, and AL-07 on the Democratic side. Polls closed a few minutes ago, at 8pm Eastern.
Results: Associated Press | Politico
Guess no one’s feeling the Alabama fever tonight
Mehz, AL races are boring.
I’d ignore the results for a while. AP keeps yanking back precinct reporting numbers, but is still showing Lauderdale County as mostly in, but with turnout down about 90% from the primary.
Let’s remember AP’s Mobile County numbers late on primary night, which fooled us all.
Now AP has yanked back Lauderdale as well, and we are back to one percent of precincts reporting statewide.
They have the Chilton County numbers wrong. I live here and our local paper is giving the numbers live from the courthouse and the AP has 1280 for Byrne and 844 for Bentley when the numbers are actually 1082 for Bentley and 495 for Byrne a major difference.
First they opted to vote for thugs and criminals over Dale Peterson, and now it looks like Rick Barber won’t be bringing the army of crazy, either. Thank God we still have South Carolina….
Portsmouth mayor James Holley got recalled by a 2-1 margin. This is actually the second time this has happened; I believe the last time was back in 1996.
Partial returns from Chilton County, between B’ham and Montgomery on I-65, show Byrne winning 60-40. In the primary, Byrne took only 12% in this county; James and Moore together took 61%. Could be an indicator that Byrne’s efforts to make AEA the issue are working.
Ah! Just saw the earlier comment claiming that AP has the Chilton County numbers wrong. If so, then I retract my suggestion that the results are a big positive indicator for Byrne.
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Also, I really hope Smoot pulls it out…and it would be impressive if she did, considering she was outspent like 10 to 1.
Who will be a weaker candidate against Sparks? I know I’m rooting for Barber because he’s crazy.
But not to me: How can 500 precincts be reporting in the Republican race for AG Commissioner, but 510 in the Gov race?
Looks now like a Bentley win. Byrne is up narrowly in Jefferson and Mobile, and is actually losing in Baldwin. Bentley’s up in a large majority of rural counties.
The Alabama Education Association is the big winner if Bentley ends up winning. They’ve been all over Byrne since the very beginning and trying to sink him from the start. Looks like it’s going to work, and a relative unknown state representative from Tuscaloosa is going to be the Republican nominee for Governor. This is going to be a major suprise.
Glad to see sedition is not even popular in the Deep South these days. I feared we were going to have to restart Reconstruction. I was preparing to claim to be the reincarnation of General William T. Sherman and engage in some cultural imperialism.
was really hoping Smoot could pill off a victory tonight, but by the looks of the numbers so far it looks unlikely. It would have been nice for a D+30 something seat to have a real progressive representative for once.
AP called for Bentley. Matches up with what other outlets are reporting.
I can’t see Barber pulling it out. the only two counties that have not started reporting are Bullock, which she won with 47% in primary, and Geneva, which she won with 51% in primary. She is winning every county except for the very small Conecuh which is finished reporting.
I don’t know about the runoff, as he didn’t file a report, but for the primary, he raised $93.98, of which $88.48 was from the candidate himself. I don’t know who donated the remaining $5.50, but they must be swelling with pride.
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I’m glad Beasley was able to beat Multiple-Party-Switcher Johnny Ford… Though I was tempted to go and vote in the Republican Runoff (most of the Judge runoffs are on the Rep side), I decided, in the end, to vote in the Dem Runoff, as I would hate to see Ford to get in the State Senate…
His record is only 1 for 2 tonight has Barber was crushed.
But now, we’d better frickin’ field a candidate in a district where our registration advantage is 45.2-28.7