Webb-Allen Update

Radley Balko | November 7, 2006

With 96 percent of precincts in, Allen's holding a 12,000 vote lead.  If there's any hope for Webb, it's in the fact that 18 precincts in Richmond City have yet to report, an area that's going about 2.5-1 for Webb, and where there are about 30,000 votes left to be cast.  Webb's people also seem to be optimistic about absentee ballots.

Still, it's looking more and more like the best outlook for Webb is a couple of weeks of recounts and absentee counting.

Note too that the Green Party candidate will pull in about 25,000 votes, more than twice Allen's current lead.

Comments

|11.7.06 @ 11:09PM|#

I love these "spoilers" maybe it will show the 'Rats the political value of water melon Socialism.......wait.....Doh!

|11.7.06 @ 11:11PM|#

What a pile of macaca.

C'mon, someone had to say it.

|11.7.06 @ 11:12PM|#

Allen has a ~8,000 vote lead.

|11.7.06 @ 11:13PM|#

Whoops, miscounted, Allen has a ~13,000 vote lead.

|11.7.06 @ 11:24PM|#

I'll bet the race will be decided by less than a thousand votes...good thing the two candidates are sterling gentlemen who can be expected to bow out gracefully.

|11.7.06 @ 11:24PM|#

~6,000 vote difference; definately within the automatic recount requirements at this point.

thoreau|11.7.06 @ 11:27PM|#

Zeno | November 7, 2006, 11:24pm | #

~6,000 vote difference; definately within the automatic recount requirements at this point.

I predict that Webb will halve that difference tonight, then halve the remainder in the first recount, then halve that remainder with absentees, etc.

What do you think, Zeno?

:)

|11.7.06 @ 11:32PM|#

lol!

|11.7.06 @ 11:39PM|#

Allen has a 4700 vote lead, maybe 60,000 left to count statewide.

If I can do math, that means Webb would have to win about 54% of that 60,000 to make up the difference.

|11.7.06 @ 11:41PM|#

thoreau,

Imagine if we look at the actions of the counters at discrete periods of time; it becomes obvious then that the counters never move. :)

|11.7.06 @ 11:48PM|#

Commonwealth has Allen's lead down to about 3000.

Gonna be incredibly close.

|11.7.06 @ 11:48PM|#

2500 now...

|11.7.06 @ 11:51PM|#

cnn just put webb ahead by 2000

Rhywun|11.8.06 @ 1:12AM|#

Webb is ahead by 2700 now