Sparks Defeats Davis in Alabama Democratic Primary for Governor
June 1st, 2010Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks has easily defeated former Birmingham Congressman Artur Davis in the Democratic Primary race for governor of Alabama, according to voting returns. With 77 percent of the precincts reporting, Sparks leads Davis by an overwhelming 65 percent to 35 percent, according to AP, the Birmingham News and Politico.
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June 1st, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Sparks supports a lottery, but it was Davis who proved to be the big gambler – voting against the health care reform bill and otherwise alienating what would be his base.
June 1st, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Davis never had a base, except a few big money changers in Mountain Brook and New York.
June 1st, 2010 at 10:46 pm
If he had been a reliable Democrat, I would have voted for him. He is charismatic and I thought would have had a good chance at winning…. but he lost me on health care.
June 1st, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Not sure where the charismatic impression comes from. There’s nothing in my experience dealing with him to back up that idea.
Let me share this story one more time from December 2008.
Fighting the Final Battles of the Civil War
http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/12/fighting-the-final-battles-of-the-civil-war/
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:50 am
Hey…. your poll results pretty much matched the real one. Does that mean that your readers are all now mainstream Democrats?
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:08 am
Just the smartest people on the planet : )
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:55 am
According to the unofficial results, Davis got 119,908 votes and Sparks got 199,190 votes. That’s only 319,098 total voters in the Democratic Primary in a state with 4 million people. More analysis on the way…
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:05 am
Bradley Byrne got 137,093 votes, or 27 percent of Republicans. Unknown Robert Bentley of Tuscaloosa got 123,321 votes, or 25%. Tim James to 123,181 votes, 25 percent. Roy Moore got 94,425, 19 percent. Bill Johnson got 8,289 votes, or 1 percent, and Charles Taylor picked up 2,585 votes while James Potts got 1,525.
So the total number of Republicans voters in the primary was 367,238, according to the unofficial results posted by the New York Times.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/governor/alabama
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:06 am
So 48,140 more Republicans voted in the primary than Democrats.
June 2nd, 2010 at 1:47 pm
ALL registered voters can vote
in the Republican run-off.
Vote and vote often!!!
At this moment I plan to vote
against Byrne.
June 2nd, 2010 at 4:07 pm
There was a time, that those of us of a certain age can remember, when the Republicans in Alabama still nominated candidates by convention, and practically all the active GOPers in the state were there, under one roof.
June 2nd, 2010 at 5:18 pm
The math shows that unless the Democrats do something to pickup at least 50,000 voters in the general election, they are toast…