9/9 Primary Results Round-up

[ccharles000]

A quick round-up of last night's congressional and gubernatorial primaries:

DE-Gov (D): State Treasurer Jack Markell edged Lt. Gov. John Carney by 1,700 votes for the Democratic nomination to succeed retiring Gov. Ruth Ann Minner. Markell will face Republican Bill Lee in November.

DE-AL (D): Children's rights activist Karen Hartley-Nagle beat Mike Miller by a 55-34 margin for the right to take on GOP Rep. Mike Castle in November. Kossack Jerry "Possum" Northington gobbled up 10% of the vote.

NH-01 (R): Former Rep. Jeb Bradley squeaked by former state Health Commissioner John Stephen by a 51-47 margin for the GOP nod against frosh Dem Rep. Carol Shea Porter.

NH-02 (R): Radio personality Jennifer Horn beat state Sen. Bob Clegg by a 40-34 margin for the dubious prize of a GOP nomination in this D+2.7 district. Horn faces steep odds against Democratic Rep. Paul Hodes in November.

NY-10 (D): Crusty Democratic Rep. Ed Towns held back a primary challenge from former reality TV star Kevin Powell, winning with a comfortable 67-33 spread.

NY-13 (D & R): NYC Councilman Mike McMahon easily dispatched '06 candidate Steve Harrison by a 75-25 margin for the Dem nod for this open seat. In what has been the most pathetic offering of candidates by the Staten Island GOP in decades, unpopular ex-Assemblyman Robert Straniere bounced unpopular physician Jamhsad Wyne by 59-41.

NY-21 (D): Ex-Assemblyman Paul Tonko nabbed the Dem nod to replace retiring Rep. Mike McNulty in this D+8.7 district by 39-30 over former Hillary Clinton aide Tracey Brooks.

NY-26 (D): I believe this is called a "murder-suicide". Iraq Vet Jon Powers and perennial candidate (and billionaire nativist industrialist) Jack Davis were trounced by unheralded environmental attorney Alice Kryzan, who won the Dem nod for this open seat with 42% of the vote to Powers' 36% and Davis' 23%. Kryzan will go up against businessman Chris Lee, who is partially self-funding his campaign, in November.


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[adamuu]

1. thanks. n/t

[Earth_First]

2. What's crazy about NY26 is that in '04 when Davis ran against Reynolds (retiring)

he lost by a two point margin. I thought for sure that Davis would have taken this. Am I surprised? No. Why? The Powers and Davis campaigns ran COMPLETELY attack-dog ads every twenty seconds for the last month and a half. While Kryzan ran ads the day before the primary election, and stunned Democrats here locally.

I'd really like to see NY26 in the hands of Democrats this November, good luck Alice; we're behind you!