The biggest news of the day is that Joe Schwarz is sent home, replaced by Tim Walberg. Walberg brought his GOTV machine from 2004 back, and this time had enough funding to win.
Tim Walberg - 53.04% - 33144 votes
Joe Schwarz - 46.96% - 29349 votes
By County:
BRANCH
Schwarz - 1,519 - 40.75%
Walberg - 2,209 - 59.25%
CALHOUN
Schwarz - 5,648 - 57.54%
Walberg - 4,167 - 42.46%
EATON
Schwarz - 5,961 - 54.23%
Walberg - 5,032 - 45.77%
HILLSDALE
Schwarz - 1,917 - 32.16%
Walberg - 4,043 - 67.84%
JACKSON
Schwarz - 6,777 - 45.81%
Walberg - 8,018 - 54.19%
LENAWEE
Schwarz - 2,569 - 31.12%
Walberg - 5,687 - 68.88%
WASHTENAW
Schwarz - 4,958 - 55.42%
Walberg - 3,988 - 44.58%
The biggest thing here scary to some bigwigs is that establishment endorsements really don't matter all that much. Almost all of the establishment in DC and in state party leadership backed Schwarz. Most organizations did as well. They all lost. McCain, Bush, the NRA, John Engler, Saul Anuzis, John Boehner and much of Congress. Walberg certainly isn't going to owe the establishment anything. Hopefully he'll be ready to stand up to the big spenders out there. Good luck to him. We need more Tim Walbergs out there.
Out of state - Joe Lieberman is sent home in Connecticutt, but is deciding to run as an independent. We'll see what happens. Cynthia McKinney in DeKalb Georgia is also sent home. Good riddance.
I'll get to the US Senate race and county results later today.
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3 comments:
Yesterday was a great day. Congratulations to Walberg and congratulations to John Knowles in East Lansing.
Well Dan, I won't come to you for advise in picking winners but I am very pleased with the outcome of most races on Tuesday.
The really amazing thing in the Walberg/Schwarz race is not just that Walberg won, but that he defeated the heavily favored incumbant in a landslide.
Well done, Tim Walberg!
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