November Elections: Who Do You Like?

Let’s start a new direction on the elections. The primary is over. It’s time to talk about some of the important races in the November General Election. We are closing the threads on “Primary Results” and “Election Central” and moving discussion to this new thread.

Here are some of the key races to get your comments started:

Governor: Charlie Crist vs. Jim Davis.

County Commissioners: Darlene Weesner vs. Jim Payton and Barbara Fitos vs. Randy Harris.

County School Board: Joyce Romanski vs. Ron Crawford.

State Representatives: Macky Thurman vs. Larry Cretul and James Walker vs. Dennis Baxley.

State Senate: Steve Oelrich vs. Ed Jennings.

County Issue: Approve a one-cent tax, effective January 1, 2007, to be added on to the existing sales tax for seven years to fund county roads.

There are other races/issues, so feel free to offer your point of view on any of them.

Who’s going to win and why? Tell us what you know about any of the candidates that would help us make a better decision on whom to vote for.

Click on the link below to participate in a “Straw Vote” for each of the above races and the sales tax proposal:

http://www.insitefulsurveys.com/Survey.asp?SI=722026712023

Open Thread: Other Issues?

We are opening this new thread in case you want to have a discussion on something other than the recent School Board election results, or issues already covered on other threads of the Blog.

Let’s hear from you. What’s on your mind?

Also, if you haven't voted in our straw poll, we added a permanent link for your convenience. Go to the Links section on the main page of the Blog and click on: Vote: Current "Straw Poll". We will use this link to create more polls on current issues in the future.

Primary Results: It’s Your Nickel!

Why did your favorite candidate(s) win or lose? There were a few “surprises” in the primary results.

Give us your political analysis!

Let us hear from you.

STRAW POLL: FINAL RESULTS

Here are the final results of the “Straw Poll” (216 voters):

School Board-District #4

David Alvarez 47%

Sue Mosley 53%

School Board-District #5

Ron Crawford 50%

Joyce M. Romanski 14%

Christopher Thurow 36%

County Court Judge-2

Robert E. Landt 51%

Sarah Ritterhoff Williams 49%

Please VOTE on September 5!