Thursday, March 30, 2006

The 17th in 2004

In 2004 incument Congressman Chet Edwards managed to narrowly win against Arlene Wohlgemuth with 51% of the vote.

Wohlgemuth had been involved in a very divisive primary, which after her victory, still divided Republicans.

Ontop of that Clyde L. Garland, a 3rd Party candidate was in the race as well.

The colors on the map look completely different for President George W. Bush in the 17th. Now as it is Bush's home district, one would expect he would carry every county..which he did.

Bush carried McLennan County with 66% of the vote, and Edwards stronghold Robertson County with 56% of the vote.
Chet Edwards is an anomaly to the entire state, and has been able to skate by pretending to be a moderate.

I don't think that will happen again this November...

posted by Right Of Texas @ 1:37 PM  

5 Comments:

  • At 2:46 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    it seems that edwards does indeed have the numbers to win though

    what does van taylor gives that the lady from '04 doesn't?

     

  • At 2:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    From his ads I would say: experience in the War on Terror fighting as a Marine in Iraq / experience guarding our borders as a Marine as well / and he's a businessman who wants to address the budget... there appears to be a lot more, but again I'm only going off what I saw from his ads.

     

  • At 5:52 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Arlene probably ran the worst campaign in history, All Taylor has do to win is not suck!

     

  • At 9:18 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Alene pissed off much of the Republican base in McLennan county a year or two before the election over water quality issues in the Bosque River watershed... an issue over which Waco/McLennan county residents never did forgive her. If all other counties remain unchanged in their support of Edwards, Taylor only needs to split off 4500 votes in McLennan county (based on 2004 stats... given the lower turn out in off-year elections, even less votes than that could be enough) in order to win the 17th.

     

  • At 2:04 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    And as we all well know, he ended up doing more than that. He did very well in Johnson and Hood. Taylor was a thud, a rich carpetbagger from North Dallas.

     

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