I haven’t been able to get good statewide results for Indiana House races. But I’ve seen a few things on the close one.
It looks like in my neck of the woods Democrat Joe Micon will beat repeat challenger Connie Basham.
It looks like Republican Jackie Walorski will hang on to her seat against challenger Robert Kovach.
It looks like Democrat Nancy Dembowski will knock off incumbent Republican Steve Heim who might become a DST/Toll Road casualty. I really respected Rep. Heim’s willingness to blog about what was going on at the General Assembly. That seems like a great tool for letting constituents understand what’s going on day-to-day at the legislature.
Incumbent Troy “I’ll Never Vote for It” Woodruff looks to be having trouble against Kreg Battles.
Update Mary Beth Schneider has a story for the Indianapolis Star suggesting that the Democrats are close to winning control of the Indiana House of Representatives. She says it looks like the Democrats were in danger of losing just one incumbent, Ed Mahern to Republican Jonathon Elrod. Meanwhile, the Republicans looked to lose Steve Heim to Nancy Dembowski; John Smith to Ron Herrell; Billy Bright to David Cheatham; and Troy Woodruff was having trouble with Kreg Battles.
The Democrats need to net 3 seats to take control.
Update 2 District 64 – currently represented by Troy Woodruff goes into Knox, Pike, Daviess, and Gibson counties. I can’t find any results for Gibson County yet. The other three counties have Battles leading 6,103 votes to Woodruff’s 4,238 votes. And, Gibson County broke in favor of the Democratic incumbent John Frenz in 2004 when Woodruff beat Frenz — so Gibson County shouldn’t be a stronghold. However, according to the 2004 results, Gibson County seems to cast about as many votes as the other districts combined, so Woodruff’s defeat probably can’t be taken as a given just yet.
I’m not surprised, but kind of sad about Eddie Mahern possibly losing his district. I’m ludicrously happy about Chocola, Soudrel and most especially Hostettler getting their butts booted. Yay for Dr. Ortenlicher! I am sad about Tammy Duckworth losing in Illinois, because I think she deserved that seat. Overall, nationally (aside from Lieberman, who should have been booted out of the party years ago) I am quite pleased.
also, the Star is saying Woodruff lost. I’d like to see if Kovach lost, and if so, by how much.
Walorski 8898 to Kovach 7974. The difference was Walorski’s margin in Elkhart County. Elkhart County favored her by 1394 votes while Kovach won by 470 votes in St Joseph. Between these two almost half a million bucks spent on 16,872 votes. Madness, simply madness.
WTHI-TV in Terre Haute reporting with all votes counted in Indiana House District 64:
Kreg Battles(D) 11,228 or 54%
Troy Woodruff(I)(R) 9,137 or 44%
JA Thomas(L) 454 or 2%
I suggest the following link on state legislative races:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2006/general/by_state/state_sen_house/IN.html?SITE=INWANELN&SECTION=POLITICS
A possible couple of losers from DST fallout.
State House – District 64 – 67 of 67 Precincts Reporting
Name Party Votes Pct
Battles, Kreg Dem 11,228 53.93
Woodruff, Troy (i) GOP 9,137 43.89
Thomas, J.A. Lib 454 2.18
State House – District 17 – 44 of 44 Precincts Reporting
Name Party Votes Pct
Dembowski, Nancy Dem 9,777 52.25
Heim, Steve (i) GOP 8,934 47.75
One more link, before I go do something constructive, like getting the kids to school. A link to a county by county run down on the Indiana Congressional races:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2006/general/by_county/state_sen_house/IN.html?SITE=INWANELN&SECTION=POLITICS
Sorry, the previous link was county by county state legislative races. Here is the congressional one:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2006/general/by_county/us_house/IN.html?SITE=INWANELN&SECTION=POLITICS