Stick a fork in this one…
A recanvass of votes Friday in all 16 counties in Central Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District showed Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler leading Republican Andy Barr by 648 votes.
Secretary of State Trey Grayson said the recanvass requested by Barr showed Barr picking up only one vote in Lincoln County, putting Chandler’s lead at 648 votes. It was 649 before the recanvass.
The total vote count from the recanvass is Chandler with 119,812 votes and Barr with 119,164 votes.
Grayson said Barr has until the end of business Friday to ask the Franklin Circuit Court to conduct a recount of the votes. That would be at the candidate’s expense, Grayson said.
Barr has a news conference scheduled for 3:30pm. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him concede, but if he wants to drag this process out and spend thousands of dollars on a recount, that’s his prerogative.
UPDATE: Probably sensing the uphill climb he faces, Barr has conceded the election.
for victory!
And how much money does the NRCC want to spend on a recount?
I’m always impressed when a recanvass barely changes the vote count. Barr should just concede, all the votes are in and nothing’s changing.
challenge: name every city over 200,000 people that voted for john mccain. don’t cheat. go…!
Irving TX?
Spokane WA?
Plano
Chandler is a great guy and a great future statewide candidate. Governor or maybe Senate. I know someone who worked on his 03 campaign and have heard good things. If he can survive this year against a top tier candidate then he’s has this seat as long as he wants it.
Much like moderate Republicans, conservative Southern Democrats are “going and they ain’t comin’ back” (HT–The Boss). College campuses and high minority populations are the only places Democrats will have a chance, and it is doubtful that Blue Dogs will play any better there than mainstream Democrats.
The source for hope for Democrats seems to be minorities and the West Coast, although they still did fairly well on the East Coast. I can’t see any Democrat carrying these states in the next ten years: Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas (maybe Hillary, but she’ll be old in 2016), West Virginia, Idaho, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, Alaska, Georgia, South Carolina, and Utah. That is over a third of the states in this country. Texas, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina and Missouri would require quite a wave as well.