Vermont Democratic Governor's Race A Nail Bitter

[davidpdx]

Markowitz 25%
Shumlin 24.9%
Racine 24.8

66.2% of precincts reporting

[IndianaGreen]

1. Do you have a personal preference, and if so, why?

I am not from Vermont.

[dsc]

2. do they do runoffs?

or will the winner of that election get the nod?

[davidpdx]

3. No idea, I'm not from there

But happened to start watching the results. I noticed how damn close it was and can't stop watching it. It's addicting...

[davidpdx]

4. Update

Markowitz 24.8%
Shumlin 24.8%
Racine 25%

71.2% of precincts reporting

[davidpdx]

5. Update

Markowitz 24.8%
Shumlin 24.7%
Racine 25%

75% of precincts reporting

[davidpdx]

6. Update-Markowitz is falling behind, it maybe down to Shumlin and Racine

Markowitz 24.4%
Shumlin 25.1%
Racine 25.1%

43 votes seperate Racine and Shumlin.

80.4% of precincts reporting

To the person on ignore, no.

[davidpdx]

7. Still a nail bitter, Markowitz is hanging in there though only 1% behind

Markowitz 24.2%
Shumlin 24.8%
Racine 25.2

82.3% of precincts reporting

A couple of the small counties only have 65% counted. The large ones are around 90-95% counted.

[davidpdx]

8. Back and forth between Shumlin and Racine, it's like a ping pong game..

Markowitz 24%
Shumlin 25.2%
Racine 24.8%

86.9% of precincts reporting

1 of 14 counties at 100%

[davidpdx]

9. Shumin up by 31

Markowitz 23.9% 15,591
Shumlin 25.1% 16,359
Racine 25.1 16,328

87.7% of precincts reporting

It looks like Markowitz has fallen enough behind to make it a two person race with Shumlin up by 31 votes. Two counties are completely finished out of 14.

*correction changed the % of precincts reporting.

[davidpdx]

10. Watching Windham and Bennington Counties

Shumlin is pretty strong in those two places. I think once they finish counting, we may have a winner.

[davidpdx]

11. 81 vote difference

Shumlin 25% 16,575
Racine 25.1% 16,656

88.8% of precincts reporting