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BOE - who are people voting for?
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Anonymous
I think it says more about the state of voting. No one I talked to knew anything about her. You can’t really know if people voted her in because they picked a “democrat” whose name they liked or because they knew what she stands for. Plenty of people go to vote for one election and end up voting with zero information and just pick names. |
Anonymous
Smondrowski missed several of the candidate forums. |
Anonymous
Turn out was probably low. Anyone know? You get much more interesting results when that happens. |
Anonymous
| Can someone remind me how the primary works? How many go on to the general election? |
Anonymous
| I can't believe Diaz beat Smondrowski. WOW. I thought for sure it would be Smondrowski and Zimmerman. |
Anonymous
Top two. So At-Large will be: Lynne Harris Rita Montoya District 2 will be: Brenda Diaz Natalie Zimmerman District 4 will be: Shebra Evans Laura Stewart What's crazy is how close Bethany Mandel came to beating Laura Stewart.....People in MoCo are PISSED OFF with the school board incumbents. |
Anonymous
She didn’t come close to Stewart. She came close to Evans. |
Anonymous
Yes, that’s the point. All apple ballot picks plus incumbents (in at least two). |
Anonymous
Currently (211 of 257 election day precincts reported) Stewart: 47.73% Evans: 26.58% Mandel: 25.68% |
Anonymous
Sorry, I meant to say Evans, not Stewart. My bad. |
Anonymous
Not all official, yet. Looking like that, though. Smondrowski in D2 instead of Diaz and Mandel instead of Evans are the only one where there might be a chance that late returns change things, but I'd be very surprised with the former, given the gap at this point. Too bad we don't have Steve Korniacki zooming in precinct by precinct to show us the claculus for the remainder.  From the county election breakdown, it would take some serious late-arriving mail-in mojo (up to 10 days from today, if postmarked) for Smondrowski to make up the margin.
And it is Evans who is the incumbent nearly losing to Mandel for the second place spot in the general. Stewart, the challenger and Apple Ballot pick, is comfortably ahead of both. Based on very loose assumptions about the primary votes, it seems as though Stewart and Zimmerman will have a majority in November. Harris v. Montoya might come down to whether the Kim votes split more anti-Montoya's advocacy or anti-Harris' incumbency. Of course, the greater numbers presumably heading to the polls, then, could create swings if the primary is not well representative. |
Anonymous
It really makes me question how educated MoCo voters are. She's laughable and yet didn't do that badly. Mostly Trump supporters I guess - they love to support odd candidates who will never do anything for them. |
Anonymous
Sorry to have beat that horse about Evans v. Stewart. Took me a bit to look at the returns/compose the post, by which time those other replies (and your own) had come in. |
Anonymous
That's probably good news for Zimmerman. |
Anonymous
| I don't follow Boe. Were there any upsets to the status quo ? |