Election night open thread with a few words from our candidates

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First, a note from us to the candidates:

We at Green Mountain Daily would like to thank the candidates for engaging our readers and participating in our ongoing forum.  Your involvement has made for a greatly enriched experience and we’ve enjoyed seeing the back and forth among candidates, GMD writers, and our readers.  Thanks to all of you for making this an election to remember.

We will be updating this thread as time permits with any breaking news from the primaries:

This space reserved for election results, or you can get results as they come in at VPR or wcax.



Jim Condos is confirmed winner for Secretary of State Dem primary.

Doug Hoffer is confirmed winner for Auditor.

Governor is just too close to call.  See comment threads as reports come in.  I won’t be updating it here until we have a confirmed winner, which at this point might not be until morning September..

After the fold, where you can go to celebrate with your candidate of choice, and a special treat: we asked each of the five candidates for Governor to provide us with a short statement to the readers of Green Mountain Daily for this special end of the primary thread.  Below are the statements we’ve received, in order of when we received them (the Shumlin campaign did not send us a statement, but if they do, we will update this thread):

Next, where you can go to celebrate with your respective candidates:

Susan Bartlett: The Alchemist, 23 South Main St. Waterbury

Matt Dunne: Tip Top Cafe, 85 N. Main Street, White River Junction

Deb Markowitz: Main Street Landing Train Station, Burlington

Doug Racine: Burlington Hilton, 60 Battery Street, Burlington

Peter Shumlin: Nectars, 188 Main Street, Burlington

Also, Wednesday will be a Democratic Unity Event:


Wed, 08/25/2010 – 12:00pm

Train Station

One Main Street Landing

Burlington, VT, 05401

Susan Bartlett:

It has been an honor to campaign in this Democratic primary. I am impressed that five highly competitive candidates all ran campaigns that focused on the issues without resorting to negative campaigning. All of us understand that the primary voters must decide who best represents their interests and that ultimately one of us must be in a position to beat Brian Dubie. We will all pull together to elect the winner in November. Most of all, I enjoyed traveling the state listening to voters and understanding their concerns. I am so grateful for the support I found for my message of a pragmatic approach to solving the problems we face. 

Doug Racine:

Whatever happens tonight, I’m very proud of the campaign we have all run. We all had different strategies, but we all made a pledge not to be negative toward each other, and we all kept our pledge. I have very much enjoyed traveling the state and talking with Vermonters over the past year. I have also enjoyed engaging with Vermonters online through Green Mountain Daily, Facebook, Twitter and other media. I appreciate that GMD provides an online forum for folks to discuss issues that are important to them. Thank you to everyone who helped on my campaign. Let’s keep working together to beat Brian Dubie!

Matt Dunne:

It’s been an extraordinary campaign in a truly unique year. Each of the candidates have brought their own flavor to the election and after all the forums, parades and events we all know each other pretty well. The caliber of each of the candidates is phenomenal and I know that whoever wins the Democratic primary will be a worthy competitor to Brian Dubie.

Especially with so much information out there about each of the candidates, this year more than ever voters have turned to the experts to help digest the data. With this type of connected, netroots support, GMD has played an important role helping to highlight and analyze key elections news and we are indebted to the entire GMD community for sparking conversation and debate throughout the election season.

It’s been a long road and Vermont is now truly at a crossroads. It is critical that we all rally behind whoever is the Democratic candidate to ensure that we work together to move Vermont forward.

Deb Markowitz:

You have all heard the speeches. You’ve seen the ads. You’ve read the mail. You know that I am running for governor because we have to change the way we do business in Montpelier if we are going to keep Vermont the best place to live, work and raise a family–if we are going to jumpstart job growth, fix health care the right way and plan for a home grown renewable energy future. Over the last 18 months, I have had the honor to witness what is best about Vermont and what is best about Vermonters. And I can tell you what that has taught me about how this election and our future will play out. I want to thank Susan, Matt, Doug and Peter for their hard work and determination. My respect has only grown for you and I am thankful for the journey. Thank you also to Green Mountain Daily for continuing this lively experiment in democracy. It has been quite a campaign! Please join us at our party tonight at 7 p.m. at Burlington’s Union Station, 1 Main St.

Wherever you are, and whatever side you came down on, I hope this primary has energized and excited you.  Since I’m writing this before knowing who the winner is, I won’t bother writing a congratulations note just yet.  I’ll just say that this has been a lot of fun to watch and blog.

Feel free to share your favorite moments from the campaign, your expectations for the next few months, or anything else that’s on your mind.  

‘Cause tomorrow, it’s time to get down to serious work.

THE FIRST VERMONT PRESIDENTIAL STRAW POLL (for links to the candidates exploratory committees, refer to the diary on the right-hand column)!!! If the 2008 Vermont Democratic Presidential Primary were

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60 thoughts on “Election night open thread with a few words from our candidates”

  1. In Vergennes I overheard the woman who was checking voters in say that “today was three times busier than a typical primary election”. While I doubt that 3x was an exact count, it may prove that my earlier prediction of a normal to light turnout is off by a bit.

  2. For what it’s worth, I was told by our town clerk (Moretown) that turn out will likely be more then three times what it was for the presidential primary. In other words we expect 300-400 people to vote.

    If Shay is right, that could play into Shumlin’s hands. I, however, still predict Racine on top with Shumlin second. But I suppose we will know soon enough!  

  3. Any chance the winner will announce that the other 4 are in their cabinet? What an admin that would be! A guy can dream can’t he?

  4. Unofficial Moretown results are:

    Gov. Racine-83

    Dunne-65

    Shumlin-59

    Deb-58

    Bartlett-12

    Gov Lite/Brey-96

    Howard-87

    Auditor/Hoffer-150

    Ed-78

    US Senate/Leahy-250

    Dan-25

    VT Senate (top three win)

    Cummings-175

    Pollina-162

    Osmon-82

    Cheny-82

    Moore-72

  5. Huffpost front page has Vermont Dem Primary election results. 8% in.  Not sure where the votes are from.

  7. Big turnout in Montpelier. 2520 ballots cast out of a checklist of about 6153, which is about 41%.

    U.S. Senate

    Leahy–1916

    Freilich–156

    Governor

    Racine–585

    Markowitz–577

    Shumlin–502

    Dunne–370

    Bartlett–76

    Lite Gov

    Bray–908

    Howard–681

    Secretary of State

    Condos–1–5

    Merriman–639

    Auditor of Accounts

    Hoffer–1345

    Flanagan–422

    State Senate

    Cummings–1446

    Pollina–1201

    Osman–914

    Cheney–851

    Moore–691

    It seems like big news that Racine beat Markowitz in her home town.

  8. Deb Markowitz   3,811   26%

    Doug Racine 3,726 26%

    Peter Shumlin 3,595 25%

    Matt Dunne 2,616 18%

    Susan Bartlett 858 6%

  9. FYI –

    We’re planning a local unity party Thursday night in White River Jct to watch the debate.  

  11. …yesterday I thought my vote really wouldn’t make much of a difference, but with a 14 vote difference between Racine and Markowitz, apparently my vote really does count.

  13. Peter Shumlin   7,602   26%

    Deb Markowitz 7,517 25%

    Doug Racine 7,376 25%

    Matt Dunne 5,701 19%

    Susan Bartlett 1,578 5%

  14. Doug Racine   9,440   25%

    Peter Shumlin 9,440 25%

    Deb Markowitz 9,258 25%

    Matt Dunne 7,034 19%

    Susan Bartlett 1,946 5%

  15. From south central Vermont: Peter Shumlin won Wilmington, Whitingham, Wardsboro, and Halifax.

    Senator Pat Leahy beat Dan Freilich 131 to 71 in WIlmington. Freilich resides in Wilmington.  

  16. Jim’s saying turn out would have been even better if we’d had this Primary in the fall.  Right before the interview I thought I heard them call auditor for Hoffer.

    WoooHooo!

  17. The auditor race has been called for Hoffer.

    Also, revealing part of my sacred secret ballot here: After hearing odum’s discourse about administering GMD this morning on Mark Johnson, I was so impressed with his wisdom and sagacity that I wrote him in for Washington County judge.  

  18. With 47% of the vote on, only 265 votse separate the leading Dem candidate for Governor, Shumlin, from the 3rd place Racine. (Markowitz in the middle.) It’d certainly be interesting to know which votes have been counted, and which are rolling in later.  

  19. Deb Markowitz   10,809  25%

    Peter Shumlin 10,796 25%

    Doug Racine 10,704 25%

    Matt Dunne 8,742 20%

    Susan Bartlett 2,231 5%

  22. Doug Racine   12,021  25%

    Deb Markowitz 11,912 25%

    Peter Shumlin 11,878 25%

    Matt Dunne 9,750 20%

    Susan Bartlett 2,498 5%

    Does anyone know if the 2% mandatory recount of votes applies to primaries or is it just for the general election?  I’d ask the Secretary of State, but I think she’s busy right now.

  23. Doug Racine   12,349  25%

    Deb Markowitz 12,258 25%

    Peter Shumlin 12,211 25%

    Matt Dunne 10,003 20%

    Susan Bartlett 2,579 5%

  24. Doug Racine   14,073  25%

    Peter Shumlin 14,037 25%

    Deb Markowitz 13,686 24%

    Matt Dunne 11,296 20%

    Susan Bartlett 2,965 5%

  25. Marj Power is beating Boots Wardinski by about two-one, even though Marj was clearly more conciliatory toward the Dems.

  26. Act No. 98

    (S.122)

    Election; statewide office; county office; state senate; recounts

    This act provides that in an election for a statewide office, county office, or state senate, if the difference between the number of votes cast for a winning candidate and the number of votes cast for a losing candidate is less than two percent of the total votes cast for all the candidates for an office, divided by the number of persons to be elected, the losing candidate shall have the right to have the votes for that office recounted. This act also makes adjustments to filing dates due to the change in the primary election date established in No. 73 of the Acts of the 2009 Adj. Sess. (2010).

    Date Signed by the Governor:  May 10, 2010

    This does not address an automatic recount

  27. I just got back from Steve Howard’s election night party in Rutland! Yay Steve!!!

    Spent most of the day campaigning for Matt Dunne at the polls and am too emotionally compromised to comment on those results right now. * sigh *

  28. If it remains as close as it looks now, my question is if and how the Dems can hold a unity rally tomorrow when there’s a recount underway. And the longer that goes, the less time we’ll have in the general against Dubie. It’s incredibly ironic that an issue which Deb has long championed – Instant Runoff Voting – could have avoided this whole unfolding mess of someone winning with barely a quarter of the vote and no clear sense of the true public will.  

  29. Democrats   Votes   Pct.

    Peter Shumlin 15,321 25%

    Doug Racine 15,231 25%

    Deb Markowitz 14,661 24%

    Matt Dunne 12,457 20%

    Susan Bartlett 3,250 5%

  30. Washington County Senate race is still interesting. AP is reporting Cummings 4788, Pollina 4235, Osman 3114, in that order, but with Barre Town (Laura Moore’s town) and  Middlesex (Kim Cheney’s town) and Cabot still outstanding. Probably not enough to boost Laura in, but Osman and Cheney are still very close.  

  32. No results for Chittenden County as a whole as yet, but here is Burlington City count in Chittenden County Senate Race

    Tim Ashe 3806 17.12%

    Andy Montroll 3625 16.3%

    Virginia Lyons 3624 16.3%

    Philip Baruth 3480 15.65%

    Hinda Miller 3164 14.23%

    Sally Fox 2900 13.04%

    Frank Geier 1568 7.05%

    Write-in votes .3%

  33. Democrats Votes Pct.

    Peter Shumlin 16,273 25%

    Doug Racine 16,198 25%

    Deb Markowitz 15,505 24%

    Matt Dunne 13,403 21%

    Susan Bartlett 3,418 5%

  35. It’s just about 1:00 and it’s clearly devolved to a race between Shumlin and Racine. Right now the Times has Doug up by 81 votes.

    in Washington County we still don’t have totals for Cabot or Middlesex, leaving the Senate (and Gub) race undecided.

    At this point I’m pretty sure nothing I do tonight is going to change the outcome. Goodnight, all.

  36. At 2:00 AM, we still don’t have a winnah!

    With 89.2% of the precincts in, here’s the rundown:

    Shumlin             25.1%   16,960

    Racine                24.9%   16,839

    Markowitz         23.8%   16,039

    Dunne                21.0%   14,165

    Bartlett                 5.2%     3,507

    That’s a difference of just 121 votes between first and second place.  Talk about a cliff-hanger!  I can’t bring myself to hit the mattress.  

    Will the “unity event,” just ten hours from now, be reconfigured with a new narrative…like one-potato-two-potato or jack straws?  

    I hate that Brian Dubie is probably loving this.

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