SIX-WEEK LONG ELECTION NIGHT WAIT ENDS IN VERMONT; ALLEN STAFFS UP IN MAINE.
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TUESDAY NEWS UPDATE.
SIX-WEEK LONG ELECTION NIGHT ENDS IN VERMONT; ALLEN STAFFS UP IN MAINE.
It took nearly six weeks — talk about a long election night wait — but we finally have a winner in the race for Vermont State Auditor. Incumbent Randy Brock (R) appeared the winner on election night by a margin of 137 votes. After the statewide recount, and correcting for errors in how paper ballots were tabulated in some rural communities, it turns out Brock lost to accountant Tom Salmon Jr. (D) by 104 votes. It was Vermont’s first statewide recount in 26 years. Before election day, Brock was one of six African-American Republicans holding statewide elective offices around the nation. Now, with Brock’s defeat — and the defeat of 3 others in 2006 — that GOP total drops to only two (Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams and Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson) … The Hotline reported Congressman Tom Allen (D-ME) appears to be staffing up his campaign for likely 2008 run against US Senator Susan Collins (R) … Hey, with the holidays and all, it was a rather slow news day for political stories.
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