Wilson Ahead In Vote Count

Latest report from the belly of the beast has Wilson up 1300 votes. The implications of Madrid not succeeding are too much for my addled brain to contemplate.

All I know is that Bush already fired Rumsfeld--evidently over the objections of the Vice-President. It's hard to understand how Cheney can really advocate keeping Rumsfeld around and say that he's trying to give the President good advice.

The White House media team is making sure that it is known President Bush overruled Dick Cheney.

The President seems to have gotten the message from the nation on the war. I pray for the President that he can become the kind of President he wants us to remember him as.

ABQjournal: Wilson-Madrid Congressional Race Stays Too Close to Call:

New Mexico's nationally watched battle between 1st Congressional District Republican Rep. Heather Wilson and Democratic challenger Patricia Madrid remained razor-close early today.

Madrid had led throughout the count Tuesday night as Democrats surged to victories in House seats across the country. Wilson moved into the lead for the first time just after midnight as Torrance County precincts boosted her to a 310-vote margin out of more than 192,000 votes tallied. Wilson's lead grew to 1,171 with 99 percent of the vote counted at 1 a.m. The Bernalillo County clerk was hand-counting about 4,000 ballots from the county after midnight.

Another 2,300 absentee ballots turned in at polling places on Tuesday also were still to be counted, County Clerk Mary Herrera said.

The candidates came up about even in early and absentee voting. Madrid had the edge in early votes cast; Wilson led in absentees. Madrid's early lead in the vote tally Tuesday night was marred by controversy: Two large Albuquerque precincts ran out of ballots, some voters were turned away, and others left in anger before the supply was replenished. "They disenfranchised voters and turned them away, and that was wrong," Wilson told the Journal.

Comments

[Neil Robertson]

I'd advise the Madrid campaign, assisted by Matt Ferrato and staff at the NMDP (he is awesome!), to do what the Allen Senate campaign is doing in VA, demand a full-audit recount of the NM House 01 balloting.

Are DNC lawyers canvassing all the precincts in NM House 01today and the rest of this week? I hope so. Let me know if I can come over from Texas and help out with that.

[Pauline]

'' 'They disenfranchised voters and turned them away, and that was wrong,' Wilson told the Journal.''

Has anyone heard if Wilson had anything to say about Katherine Harris' shenanigans in the 2000 Selection...