(Called for KERRY B!) Field Report From Bentivolio Race / Official Results Thread

DeMintConservative said:
No, McCotter district was very pro-union - and I wouldn't call McCotter a strong advocate of unions but he was certainly a friend of them, especially for a Republican. The new district, not so much. More suburban.
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I saw someone call McCotter the union's Manchurian candidate.
 
Amusing how the Washington Post's Fix blog today called Bentivolio a "Ron Paul aligned long shot". :rolleyes: They said that if he won the nomination, the race could get interesting. Not sure how much stock I put into that, since they apparently believe he was a long shot to even win the primary.

Also, I doubt Cassis would endorse the Dem. She said she'd write herself in,and I expect we'd see a lot of the establishment line up behind Bentivolio, if reluctantly.
 
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Adrock said:
Solid Republican. Probably half conservative, half Romney Republican though.
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I think it's easily 70% Romney republican and Romney leaning conservatives. The Republican electorate is dominated by suburban fiscally conservative and moderate elsewhere voters. Some smaller pockets of tea partiers and economic populist SoCons.
 
I was at an eastern Livonia triple precinct between 7 & 8 mile from 7-4 and turnout was lite until it picked up after lunch. It was basically me and another Kerry supporter who mostly campaigning for the 3 in his fam that were running in a contested precinct delegate race where there were 8 candidates for 5 slots. Starting in the morning I was talking it up with some of the head honchos running the dems congressional campaign and we all seemed to get along quite well as they were well aware of what the establishment was trying to do to our guy. The guy was really cool with me as I straightened him out on what the Tea Party was and what it has become and how we were trying to restore the GOP to its liberty roots and take it away from the Bush wing. He and many other supporters that showed up to help were really pleased that I didn't defend Bush on anything but maintained we were in house-cleaning mode. It was really warm out plus we were all posted on the pavement leading up to the school, so as the sun started beating down around 9 they set up a canopy for us to chill under.

Then around noon, Nancy and hubby show up with their lit and bracelets and is was the leader of the dem candidate that was calling around to the clerk to see if what they were doing was legit. Anyways, Nancy and hub weren't allowed in under the canopy so they were baking in the sun and thus they left after about an hour. However, a few other Nancy "supporters" came in relief but they were constantly mobbing people as they walked up which is a bad tactic. I hung back with the other sane campaigners (the dems and circuit court judge pushers) and casually reminded those republicans that showed up to vote that Kerry "The Combat Vet" was the bonafide conservative nominee of the party. Problem for the elderly Nancy pushers is that they would just tell voters to write in her name under Kerry's on the ballot but they never once mentioned to fill in the bubble next to the line :eek:, lol. I let them do that for a couple hours and then the dems and I got a major kick out of it after they left knowing they had completely wasted their time. So, I left around 4 once my reliever came and all the others were telling me that there is no way that we'd lose. I'm damned tired after being out in the heat all day, probably my longest day of activism in a long time. Pretty sure we got dis.:cool:
 
RP Supporter said:
Also, I doubt Cassis would endorse the Dem. She said she'd write herself in,and I expect we'd see a lot of the establishment line up behind Bentivolio, if reluctantly.
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I hope and pray she doesn't do a Murkowski. Can she still qualify to get her name on the ballot for the general?
 
huh, they called HOekstra's for him but not Kerry's for Kerry. H has a little more reporting but a smaller percentage.

U.S. House - District 11 - GOP Primary
Western Oakland-Wayne
Michigan - 79 of 305 Precincts Reporting - 26%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Bentivolio , Kerry GOP 11,736 64%
Total Write-In 6,460 36%
 
DeMintConservative said:
I think it's easily 70% Romney republican and Romney leaning conservatives. The Republican electorate is dominated by suburban fiscally conservative and moderate elsewhere voters. Some smaller pockets of tea partiers and economic populist SoCons.
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Sure. They cherry picked this district for McCotter. That's his crowd - the squishy center.
 
U.S. House - District 11 - GOP Primary
Western Oakland-Wayne
Michigan - 133 of 305 Precincts Reporting - 44%
Bentivolio , Kerry GOP 13,641 65%
Total Write-In 7,443 35%
 
There are possibly some people in the GOP establishment interested in primarying Bentivolio in 2014. Theoretically it'd be a lot easier to primary him than, say, Nancy Cassis. So don't expect any shenanigans for the general.
 
Hyperion said:
I used to post there. Couldn't handle all the neocon hawkish northeastern left wing(yes, leftwing GOPers) posters on that site.
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I know a few of Ron Paul posters post there (like Imperial). I don't post there personally, but I read their stuff. Most of it is good information that I can't find anywhere else...but you can tell that some posters have liberal leanings.
 
U.S. House - District 11 - GOP Primary
Western Oakland-Wayne
Michigan - 138 of 305 Precincts Reporting - 45%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Bentivolio , Kerry GOP 13,848 65%
Total Write-In 7,549 35%

and now 45% is reporting for Kerry and only 40%for Hoekstra who has had the race called for him.

And Hoekstra only has 54%

Tsk tsk.

Ron Paul Forums calls the race for Kerry....

remember, you read it here first....
 
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FSP-Rebel said:
I'm damned tired after being out in the heat all day, probably my longest day of activism in a long time. Pretty sure we got dis.:cool:
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Thanks! Hopefully this will give us an edge for the special primary in September. It would be pretty awesome for Kerry and Thomas Massie to win special elections and get to serve with Ron for a couple months.
 
angelatc said:
Sure. They cherry picked this district for McCotter. That's his crowd - the squishy center.
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Completely disagree. The power base of this district is more Oakland County than Wayne County and Lavonia. The differences aren't huge but they exist. McCotter's crowd is more economically populist social conservatives, more blue-collar, not the middle and upper-middle suburbans who dominate this district. Actually they designed this district thinking McCotter wouldn't be running - he wasn't raising any money and seemed just disengaged (and obviously he was, considering the later events).
 
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