Florida: Holmes County SOE beats Republican Candidate

adolfo

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Tue May-03-05 05:34 PM
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Florida: Holmes County SOE beats Republican Candidate

Edited on Tue May-03-05 05:36 PM by adolfo

Debbie Wilcox ran as a Democrat (Supervisor of Elections in Holmes County Florida) for another term and not only won over a republican competitor but also received more votes than republican Sen. Mel Martinez. I can understand the locals possible dislike of Mel�s last name but how did she beat her republican competitor Dan Smith?

Precinct results file:

http://www.recountflorida.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=getit&lid=1

Did I mention how poorly Kerry and Castor did in Holmes County?

Kerry's results:

http://www.recountflorida.com/ufed/president.php?county=holmes

It must be some excellent advertising skills. Anyone here from Holmes County?

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rzemanfl

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Tue May-03-05 06:38 PM
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1. Florida was rigged, re-rigged and rigged again. n/t

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minorjive

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Wed May-04-05 01:59 AM
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2. It's just as likely the Dixiecrat thing...

In the South it is extremely common for traditional, conservative Southern Democrats to vote Democratic locally and Republican nationally. This was the explanation used to dismiss kathy Dopp's findings. It is not true universally for every county. But it is true a lot of the time. To figure out if something fishy is going on, it's good to start with looking at previous presidential elections for a number of election cycles. There may well be other variables to consider, but looking at how the local and national votes went in the past is a good clue.

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