Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Election Night Blog 11:15
Time to leave. 98% in. Brady with a 3,000 vote lead.
Looks like Quinn pulls it out.
Alexi a winner.
Kirk is most likely in bed. That was fun. Good night all/

10:53
Brady up by 2,000 votes. 97% of votes in.

10:48
97% of the precincts in. Bill Brady takes back the lead.

10:39
95% in. Dillard leads by 900 votes.

10:29
Bill Brady pulls within 700 votes of Dillard. Two man race!

10:19
94% of the precincts in. Results very similar.

10:11
Dillard up by two thousand. 93% of precincts reporting.
Pat Quinn up by only 5,000 votes. both Hynes and Quinn are in the 50% range.
Alexi is official.

10:03
Kirk Dillard takes back the lead!
Hoffmann is apparently making his concession speech in Chicago.
Quinn only up by 7 thousand votes.
ALL EYES ON THE GOP'S! KIRK NOW ON 47th DRINK!

9:46
Kirk Dillard pulls within one thousand votes. Other races unchanged. McKenna now third.

9:42
Brady leads by nearly four thousand.

9:40
People are going nuts! Brady from nowhere! Quinn still leads. Alexi still up too! Kirk on his 15th drink.

9:36
Mark the time. Brady leads by 3 thousand votes.

9:31
Quinn still holds a 51%-49% lead over Hynes.

9:30
Bill Brady 600 votes behind!!!! 79% of votes are in. Wow.

9:28
Bill Brady must have charmed those down state voters as advertised. Now within 2,000 votes of Mckenna.

9:23
25 PERCENT TO GO. McKenna still leads. Dillard now in second less than 3 thousand votes behind. Brady just under 5 thousand votes behind. It's a sprint to the finish.
Pat Quinn holds a 2 percent edge! 51%-%49
Alexi a 5% lead over Hoffman.


9:16
BRADY PULLS INTO SECOND.... ALL AT 20 PERCENT... DILLARD, MCKENNA, BRADY! Brady less than 3,000 votes behind McKEnna.

9:01
Dillard crawls within 2 points! 22%-20% Kirk has officially won. (AP)

8:58
i take back my previous statement. Start shaking Mr. Quinn. Hynes within 2 points! 51%-49%


8:46 More Than Half Way Home!

Quinn 52%- 48% lead. Start shaking Mr. Hynes.
Can Andy hold on? 23% of the vote. Dillard at 19%, Ryan at 18%
Alexi likes basketball. A 3 pointer would be fine with him. Leads 38% to 35% over Hoffman
Kirk is prolly broke from the rounds he is buying tonight.


8:37
Bill Brady has passed Dan the man Proft and Adam Andrzejewski. Sits just behind Jim Ryan. Only 5 percent behind McKenna.

8:35
Quinn's favorite number is 53. 53%-47% over Hynes... been stuck there all night. 40% of precincts reporting.

8:25
Here comes DILLARD. within 4 percent of the vote! Less than 7-thousand votes behind. Hold on to your hats kids! 35% of the vote counted. Still a long way to go in this one.

8:21
We are a third of the way there.
Quinn has a 6 point lead over Hynes with 53% of the vote.
McKenna 25% of the vote... but nearest competitors at 19%
Alexi still holds a lead.
Kirk is sipping cocktails.

8:00
An hour in... the front runners are taking grip!
Andy Mckenna is now the man to beat with 28%
Jim Ryan 21%
Kirk Dillard 18%

Dems:
Quinn 53%
Hynes 47%

Senate Race:
Alexi 37%
Hoffman 32%

GOP
Mark Kirk has run away with this thing.


7:46
Adam Andrzejewski... will he be the surprise of the night? 11 percent of the vote in. Is in 2nd place. 1,500 votes behind McKenna.

7:40
Just answered about 10 calls of angry people because we cut into an OLD episode of Lost. We will not cut into the new episode. Please tell your friends. The phone calls will continue all night. Ugh.

7:19

First Numbers in. Let's compare this to last one of the night.

VIA the AP
U.S. Senate 2010 Dem - Primary
0 of 11,215 precincts - 0 percent
Alexi Giannoulias 79 - 47 percent
David Hoffman 48 - 29 percent
Cheryle Jackson 17 - 10 percent
Robert Marshall 14 - 8 percent
Jacob Meister 9 - 5 percent
U.S. Senate 2010 GOP - Primary
0 of 11,215 precincts - 0 percent
Mark Kirk 166 - 48 percent
Patrick Hughes 65 - 19 percent
Kathleen Thomas 40 - 11 percent
Don Lowery 37 - 11 percent
Andy Martin 27 - 8 percent
John Arrington 14 - 4 percent
Governor Dem - Primary
0 of 11,215 precincts - 0 percent
Daniel Hynes 113 - 66 percent
Pat Quinn (i) 59 - 34 percent
Governor GOP - Primary
0 of 11,215 precincts - 0 percent
Kirk Dillard 121 - 33 percent
Bill Brady 78 - 21 percent
Andy McKenna 78 - 21 percent
Jim Ryan 53 - 14 percent
Dan Proft 25 - 7 percent
Adam Andrzejewski 16 - 4 percent
Bob Schillerstrom 1 - 0 percent


7:10
Story lines.
How low is low? Champaign County may see less than 20 percent of registered voters participating in this primary. How will it effect the election?

Snowy Chicago. It was a cold gloomy day up North. For those hoping for a big Chicago turnout to quiet the downstate vote, how is weather playing a factor?

Upset city? Can these names be black horses? Andrzejewski, Brady, Hoffman.

7:05

Polls have closed. We have an early list of winners.... since no one ran against them.
Mostly a List of Green Party candidates. Waiting for our first numbers. Let the primary fun begin!

All Info Via the AP

U.S. Senate - 2010
LeAlan Jones, Grn
Governor
Rich Whitney, Grn
Lieutenant Governor
Don Crawford, Grn
Attorney General
Lisa Madigan (i), Dem
Attorney General
Steve Kim, GOP
Attorney General
David Black, Grn
Secretary of State
Jesse White (i), Dem
Secretary of State
Robert Enriquez, GOP
Secretary of State
Adrian Frost, Grn
Comptroller
Erika Schafer, Grn
Treasurer
Dan Rutherford, GOP
Treasurer
Scott Summers, Grn