Posted by I am hearing from both sides of the aisle that Democrat Marc Keahey is victorious in today’s special election in SD-22 over Republican Greg Albritton. I haven’t found specific numbers but one usually-in-the-know Democrat says that the Keahey margin was about 60-40, about 3000 votes. I’ll try to update with better numbers.
Update: Albritton conceded before 9. One interested Republican tells the Parlor that it’s pretty simple, “They had a Democratic-leaning district, a better candidate, and more money.”
Update (11:34 pm): Associated Press calls Keahey the apparent winner.
With only a handful of precincts not yet reporting, Keahey had nearly 8,200 votes to about 5,500 for former Republican state Rep. Greg Albritton of Range in the special election Tuesday.
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One State Sen. told me Keahey by 15% exactly – wish the Probate judges would keep up with the internet in Lower Alabama – geez.
Baldwin Keahey 577 Albritton 720
Mobile Keahey 620 Albritton 438
Now, I’m no math major, but if those numbers are right, that’s only a 39 vote differential.
I don’t have results for the other six counties
That’s just two counties. According to:
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/06/keahey_appears_to_win_senate_d.html
Keahy won his house seat counties by large marghins, while Albritton won his former counties by smaller margins.
I can’t believe a republican only won any part of baldwin county by 15 percent? Is baldwin getting more liberal or did this campaign just suck?
I’m shocked! This was the chance of a life time with pat dead.
Have Scott Beason and his side-kick Chris Brown started to blame the Party yet? If they are not blaming the Republican Party, they will blame someone. We can only hope they will stand up and accept the blood on their hands in this race. Sad.
Ummm…, Breason is blaming Beason and Chris Brown? Really, in a historically Democratic district, terrible GOP candidate who was voted out once…a party racing to the right of everything vs. a good-ol-boy Democrat who’s got an accent Wallace and Folsom can be proud of wtih the Lindsey kids working with him. Gee, I wonder how that one went the way it did?
HD 22 – Not ALGOP’s fault
HD 12 – Not ALGOP’s fault
SD 22 – Not ALGOP’s fault
SD 07 – ????
For all the GOP party haters out there. It is simple in an election like this when you are in an unfavorable district and being outspent by a decent margin. Ground game, ground game, ground game. Yes the GOP has raised a considerable amount of money for their ‘10 effort, it is still finite so they have to hedge their bets and put money where they believe they have a decent chance of success. It is my undestanding that a good portion of the staff has been down in the district working the phone and knocking on doors, my question for those of you that want to blame the party is, “What did you do?” If you are like most Republicans out there the answer is probably not a damn thing, same story that has been going on for as long as I can remember, but we love to complain.
As far as Brown is concerned, his strategy sucks. Look at his website, his last “winning” press release was from ‘06. We need new ideas.
Are we sure the money is raised to 104% or just promised?
I think there is plenty of room to spread the blame around. Apparently, there are no talented GOP consultants in AL and the party has convinced itself that they are to “reinforce” the message and GOTV. Look, if you are in charge of winning races and buying ads, then it seems to me that you should be able to shape the message (especially if the message is il-concieved). Plus, if the GOP staff is in charge of GOTV, they will lose to AEA and company every time. The two aren’t playing by the same rules (as far as I know, the GOP doesn’t pay for votes).
There is plently of blame. No more the consultant than the party. To #10, if the district wasn’t worthy then they shouldn’t have spent the money.and let me be clear – I didn’t do anything more to help in this race than my neighbor lawyer who is a big dem. He wrote a check, the same as I did. Now tell me – ow was that money spent, did we hire people to go door to door? Did we have band and athletic school kids who need to raise money out there working? Did we offer rides? Did we work the elderly? Did we work the absentee applications in mail and going door to door? If you work at the party and these idease are new to you – PLEASE write them down!
I’m no political consultant but I’ve been around the track a few times – why did we spend so much money on tv in a special election? Didn’t we know what counties we had to win – and by what margins?
Come on, blame brown, blame the party – but between the two someone should have been doing a better ground game and voters should have been driven to the polls less than 200 vote margin in baldwin – argh!
I know I said it yesterday, but I can’t believe the Alabama Republican Party and BCA wrote checks to Albritton knowing that Chris Brown would be receiving those funds to crank out campaign ads. I have great respect for the leaders in ALGOP and the BCA but they should have directed Albritton to more professional campaign consultants. I am really worried about the future of the national and state GOP.
if beason had anything to do with this – then that explains a lot to me.
To sit around and bash Beason and Brown doesn’t do any good. They beat the other guys in the primary so they are clearly the best Republican consultants. Now, I have no idea what that is worth.
Pretty bad combination of things happened across the state in these special elections.
1. people are not responding to the tired old Republican lines about liberal this and liberal that.
2. The Republican Party spends too much time fighting itself in the primaries.
3. The better candidate lost the primary cause Southern Insights is better than the other Republican consultants.
4. Changing a district from Democrat to Republican is tough but to do it during a terrible economic recession while a Democrat President has a 65% approval rating is nearly impossible.
Instead of continuing the fight between the party and Southern Insights the party needs to figure out how to unite. Until they present a united front throughout the election including the primary they will be beaten by the Dems who are very organized and united right now.
If brown is so good how come he is 0 and 3 in the last three elections? Lost s22 los s7 and the house special.
These are the most recent numbers, provisional ballots still need to be counted.
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/metro.ssf?/base/news/124402057973220.xml&coll=3
Keahy – 8,712 (57.80%)
Albritton – 6,361 (42.20%)
beason seems to be good at beating up other Republicans in primary fights – but in turn he contributes to GOP loses in the general.
Excuse my ignorance, but does Scott Beason work for Southern Insights?
I hear he’s a “full-time” state senator … no other (real) job
he has a full time job of encouraging Republicans to “eat their young” in GOP primaries and thus helping democrats win in the general election… way to go Scott!!!
If it is common knowledge that the Dems pay voters then why is there no inquiry or investigation into their GOTV campaign?