GOP's Bishop headed to victory over McCready in tight NC District 9 race
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Source: Charlotte Observer
Republican Dan Bishop narrowly defeated Democrat Dan McCready Tuesday night in North Carolinas 9th Congressional District, with a strong showing in Union County and three rural eastern counties.
With 95% of precincts reporting, Bishop led McCready 50.6% to 48.8%.
Bishop rolled up big margins in Union County and carried Richmond and Cumberland counties, which McCready won last fall over Republican Mark Harris. He trailed McCready by just over 200 votes in traditionally Democratic Robeson County.
Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article234890702.html
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James48
(4,427 posts)He can win from here.
Still too close to officially call but it's looking very good.
Live updates :
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/north-carolina-special-election-september-2019/index.html
and
https://www.cnn.com/election/2019/results/north-carolina/house-9-special-election
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Thinking blue
still_one
(92,061 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)still_one
(92,061 posts)Legends303
(481 posts)Starseer
(72 posts)... the majority of the remaining vote that is out is from Mecklenburg (D+20), Robeson (D+6), and Cumberland (D+6).
This is looking good for McCready despite the short-term lead for Bishop. Union County is Bishop's big stronghold at R+20, but it only has about 10,500 votes left to count. Adding in Richmond and Bladen won't be enough to propel Bishop to a win.
Just my $0.02.
James48
(4,427 posts)its looking VERY good for the Dem!!
they still have 20+ precincts in Mecklenberg to count- that very well COULD be enough!
Starseer
(72 posts)about 10K R votes total left in the big R areas. And roughly 30K in the D areas.
Would welcome correction if I'm looking at the numbers wrong, but this is looking like a win for McCready outside any recount margin.
LenaBaby61
(6,973 posts)kimbutgar
(21,056 posts)But the margin of his win was very narrow.
Owl
(3,639 posts)unc70
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marybourg
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marybourg
(12,586 posts)There was nothing offensive in the thread. I dont see any reason at all to delete it. Deleting it wont delete the loss of the election.
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alp227
(32,006 posts)You can view the edit history.
bluestarone
(16,869 posts)Just asking. Any Bullshit going on with the counting?
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)bluestarone
(16,869 posts)NO! (I for sure can't)
SergeStorms
(19,187 posts)The GOP poured millions into this little race, and brought all of their "big guns" to this party in hopes of winning. The GOP can't spend this amount on every race they need to win in 2020. They can't. This was their full court press to win an already red district. So they won. They were supposed to, and they used every resource they had to do it. If the GOP and Trump are proud of this showing they're going to be shitting their pants come 2020.
Just my two cents.
former9thward
(31,941 posts)But Democrats also spent millions which can't be spent on every race next year. Trump was +12 in a district where he was on the ballot in year where there was a presidential vote turnout. This was a special election and it is difficult to compare them to regular presidential turnouts and make predictions.
onetexan
(13,023 posts)I certainly hope NC will go blue next year.
Texin
(2,590 posts)I realize that they had excellent early turnout, but the effort needs to be re-amped on election day proper with massive get-out-the-vote drive, caravans, etc. Even in this heavily gerrymandered district, the Dems had this race within their grasp. They could have done it, IMO, but they didn't drive enthusiasm on the last day - the most important day. The reality is that while early voting is great in that people can more or else pencil in a convenient time to go to the polls, the rest of eligible voters are not being sufficiently to get motivated and quit giving themselves excuses for not doing so for
reasons.
The only way to increase Democratic voters is to turn over rethug seats so that they start controlling some of those previously gerrymandered districts. I know that the gerrymandering process is a state-controlled process, but Washington needs to be setting voters on fire to start making changes that will drive local state elections.
duhneece
(4,110 posts)Theyd have to cheat AND go to every county to win in 2020..unless everyone of us does nothing