BOR's Election Night Coverage

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If one of them receives a majority of votes after polls close, the winner will challenge Democrat Mel Hailey and Libertarian Vanessa Harris in November for the seat Rep. Bob Hunter is vacating." 

The above is from the Abilene Reporter News.  The race has been pretty nasty for this area, where the candidate annointed by the BBB generally is a shoe-in.

Rob Beckham is the political establishment candidate. 

Christian has been under attack for capitalizing on his name in something of an unseemly manner ("Vote Christian" as opposed to "Vote for Christian" in mailers to local church congregations.  He seems to be the choice of the Abilene Christian University and hard social right crowd.

Susan King is something of a maverick--current school board member with a lot of bipartisan support--especially from educators and health care providers.  She's probably the best Republican of the bunch, and because of that she might just be the most beatable, although I doubt Mel Hailey really stand a chance against any of these three here deep in the darkest heart of Red Texas.

Young is the dark horse, and his support will come from the Merkel and Sweetwater parts of the district.  He's behind in fundraising, and I've seen nor heard any advertising in Abilene for him.  He still might draw in the high single to low double digits from the Nolan County area.

Beckham and King seem to be equal in the signage war, and I'd give King the edge in radio ads. Christian is a distant third in terms of signage, but is the clear winner in my opinion of both radio and TV ads.

If y'all want me to blog this race, I'll be glad to do it.  I might not be able to start until about 8 p.m., since I will be attending my precinct convention with the intention of supporting Maxey at the State Convention for Democratic State Chair.  Our local county chair won't even respond to my emails as to whether we have an active precint chair, or how many delegates have been allocated. 

Email me a mikecable@gmail.com and let me know.  I'd love to post now and in the future.

Favorable/Unfavorable/Neutral/Unfamilar aongst Democrats

Bell-
Favorable: 23%
Unfavorable: 8%
Neutral: 13%
Unfamiliar: 57%

Gammage-
Favorable: 15%
Unfavorable: 11%
Neutral: 21%
Unfamilar: 53%

I'd sorta prefer Gammage win, but either way, i'd prefer a scenario where Democrats kick a lot of Republican ass in November.

So yeah, best of luck with your election night fun.

CD 7 is partly interesting because outgoing YD President Rick Brennan is making his first foray as a campaign manager, for Henley (they are fellow teachers); but Murff has plenty of respect, too.  I have no idea how to call it.

If Gammage does better than 40% in Harris County, it's all over for Bell.

Uh-oh.  Who's that being interviewed by all the TV crews using FILM in their cameras?  It's a young, bubbly Democratic matron - why it's Carole Keeton McClellan, back before she grew all those extra names.