Solomon Ortiz concedes Texas House race (TX-27)

[last_texas_dem]

Source: Politico

>>>Democratic Rep. Solomon Ortiz has conceded to Republican Blake Farenthold, handing the GOP an upset victory in the race for the South Texas seat.

With local election officials completing their manual recount of votes cast in the Corpus Christi-area 27th District race, Ortiz trailed Farenthold by nearly 800 votes.

Ortiz called Farenthold at 8:04 p.m. CST Monday to concede the race, according to a statement from Ortiz’s campaign.

“Although I gained votes during the manual recount, I did not surpass my opponents lead,” Ortiz said in the statement. “Therefore, with great respect and admiration in the Democratic process, I congratulate my opponent, Mr. R. Blake Farenthold, in his election to the 27th Congressional District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.”>>>




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Congrats on your new Representative-elect, TX-27... :scared:

[pinboy3niner]

1. Well, thats just Ducky!

:sarcasm:

[XemaSab]

2. .

:o

[Dawson Leery]

3. With results such as this, the country deserved McCain.

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. One wonders...

....what his grandmother thinks.

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[rfranklin]

6. Can we give them back to Mexico?

I think it would be a grand gesture.

[totodeinhere]

9. A lot of states, including blue states like California, also have big budget deficits.

It's not fair to single out Texas.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

7. Is that a real picture of the representative- elect?

:scared:

[last_texas_dem]

8. Sadly, yes

The mild controversy over that picture a couple of weeks before the election was the first time I even heard much of anything about this race. Still a little shocked the dude actually won...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/16/blake-farenthold-pictures_n_764685.html

[ncrainbowgrrl]

10. Oh... my.

I was hoping this was a photoshop, or some other type of farce. Whoa.

[Angry Dragon]

11. I would have been more pleased if she won

a palin/farenthold ticket is a winning one

[Yupster]

12. This was the biggest upset

Larry Sabato's Chrystal Ball listed 105 Democratic seats at some risk.

He sorted them into likely Dem, leans Dem, tossup, leans Rep, likely Rep.

Overall, he was pretty accurate.

Of all the seats that switched, this was the only one that wasn't even on his chart as one of the 105 possibilities.

[last_texas_dem]

15. Wow

Sad that *this* seat would be the one to end in such an upset. TX just seemed to be trending more Repug than even I expected (and I tend towards the pessimistic side) this year. I was thinking Bill White would at least lose by only single digits statewide, and he ended up losing by around 13 points. There really weren't any major bright spots that I can think of in my state this year.

[awoke_in_2003]

13. very good not to publish...

the whole photo- which included a scantily clad minor ("M" was clearly written on the back of her right hand).

[PJPhreak]

14. Is it just me or is there a family resemblance here...

[Tunkamerica]

16. What is going on in those pajamas? He looks like he's got something

strapped to his stomach. On the bottom left? At first I thought it was a hand, but there don't seem to be pockets. He's definitely got something in there with him.