Indiana

7TH DISTRICT HANDICAP

Posted on January 14, 2008
Now that we have two candidates for the March 11 special election to fill the vacancy left by the death of Congresswoman Julia Carson, I can handicap the race. While there is no arguing that the 7th District has been strongly Democratic, there is some evidence that this race will be somewhat competitive...

IT?S ELROD V. CARSON

Posted on January 13, 2008
By a healthy 66-percent vote total, freshman Republican State Representative Jon Elrod won his party’s nomination tonight to run for Congress in the March 11 special election to replace the late Julia Carson. Elrod will face Carson’s grandson, City-County Councilmember Andre Carson...

IT WAS A MAJORITY BUT IS IT A MANDATE?

Posted on January 12, 2008
Indianapolis City-County Councilmember Andre Carson emerged victorious this morning as the winner of the Democratic Caucus to become the nominee for special election for the 7th Congressional District. He won a field of eight candidates with 50.7 percent of the vote...

AND ROUND ONE GOES TO?

Posted on January 12, 2008
The first round of voting is complete out of 599 eligible precinct committeemen, 440 were registered to vote today, or about 73 percent. The vote totals are … Andre Carson - 223 (he wins with more than 50% of the vote) Carolene Mays -26 Stephanie McCabe - 1 David Orenlichter - 123 Randle Pollard - 6 Mike Rodman -27 Joanne Sanders - [...

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LET?S CAUCUS - 11:00 A.M. UPDATE

Posted on January 12, 2008
It’s 11 a.m. and the first round of voting is still going on.  There are several more rows of delegates left.  There is some talk that Andre Carson may make it on to the second round, however I just saw supporters of Randle Pollard convince a delegate to not for Carson...

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