After falling asleep during Olbermann (I was tired, apparently...who was worst person today?), I decided to check the election results for the MD-04 special election. While not all the precincts have reported, its still clear that Donna Edwards shall be the new Congresswoman from Maryland's 4th district, the first African American woman to serve in Congress in Maryland's history.
Follow me to the flip for the details.....
Turnout was real low today for this special election. I said on the open thread that I'd be surprised if turnout was greater than 5%....turns out I was right:
Montgomery County results: (6% turnout)
U.S. CONGRESS 04
Total
Precincts Reporting 65
Vote For 1
Total Votes 9220
Edwards, Donna DEM 6218 67.44%
James, Peter REP 2800 30.37%
Lincecum, Thibeaux LIB 133 1.44%
Write-in Votes 69 0.75%
Prince George's County results: (almost 3% turnout)
U.S. CONGRESS 04
Total
Number of Precincts 110
Precincts Reporting 87 79.1 %
Times Counted 6895/239897 2.9 %
Total Votes 6873
Edwards, Donna DEM 6365 92.61%
James, Peter REP 434 6.31%
Lincecum, Thibeaux LIB 42 0.61%
Write-in Votes 32 0.47%
I believe all the precincts are reporting in MoCo...or pretty close to it. Pringe George's has a number of precincts that have not reported yet. But given the margin, I suspect it is safe to say Donna Edwards will be sworn in this week as the new Congresswoman of the 4th district. (Finally!)
Hopefully they are already partying in Lanham MD where the Edwards campaign is watching the results tonight. I might have been there had it not been for the cold I have been dealing with for nearly two weeks. It's off to bed for me....I don't think I have ever fallen asleep watching KO before, LOL. :)
PS....Anyone have any spare bottled water? It seems we are all out of it due to the water main break in Montgomery County Sunday night. Hopefully we won't have to be boiling water past tomorrow.......
(Note: I edited Prince George's County's numbers soon after posting, as ten more precincts reported...and then I updated MoCo's numbers as 9 more precincts reported there. And updated again with an additional 9 Moco precincts....looks like the election broke 5% turnout in MoCo. LOL. And updated again to 65 precincts...over 6% turnout. Plus several more Prince george's county precincts.)
Update: It's official: Baltimore Sun calls it for Donna Edwards.