AP: Democrat in N.M. House Race Concedes

[Eugene]

Democrat in N.M. House Race Concedes

By TIM KORTE

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Nov 21, 2006 (AP)— More than a week after Republican
Rep. Heather Wilson claimed a razor-thin election victory, her Democratic
challenger conceded Tuesday, saying a recount would cost too much and
there was no guarantee it would reverse the result.

Wilson won by 875 votes the final tally showed the five-term congresswoman
with 105,921 votes to 105,046 votes for Democrat Patricia Madrid, the state
attorney general.

The difference was less than one-half of 1 percent, which in some states
would have triggered an automatic recount, but New Mexico does not have
an automatic recount law.

Madrid could have requested a recount, but she would have had to pay for it,
and she estimated a districtwide recount could reach $300,000.

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Full article: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2670894

[underpants]

1. Still a pick up of 32 ...right?

do I have that number right?

[Ediacara]

3. According to CNN it's a +30 pickup

BUT, there are still five undecided races, NC-08, FL-13, OH-02, OH-15, and TX-23.

[underpants]

4. FL-13 is over Buchanan wins (boo!)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,230844,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/youdecide2006

[Ediacara]

6. Jennings is suing the county WRT the 1/7 of all votes as undervotes

It's not over.

[demo dutch]

8. The State of FL will do everything to fight that one!

[Ediacara]

2. That's too bad

Here's hoping this district finally goes blue next time.

[DaveinMD]

5. Madrid

snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. This was a race we should have won.

[solara]

7. This just makes me ill

Why don't the various national Dem organizations help out with the post election expenses of recounts in states like NM ? There were so many anomalies in the count here and many cases of obvious voter suppression... damn. There was no help from any of the other Dems who won here either. In fact it really seemed that Richardson went out of his way to distance himself from Madrid.

I just don't get it.

:banghead: