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[9:52] Ted Nesi: “Cicilline up by nearly 10,000 votes now with 88% of precincts reporting.” [9:44] Multiple sources reporting that Cicilline is opening up a 3% or so lead. [9:40] Cicilline ahead of Doherty, 47.3-46.3, 59% percent of precincts in. And there are still a bunch of “delayed” Providence votes to arrive. [9:36] Multiple sources…
[8:59] Check that; Ted Nesi tweets: “Cicilline, Doherty separated by just over 100 votes with nearly half of precincts in”. [8:55] 29% of precincts in District 1, Cicilline ahead of Doherty 47.8-45.9, from BoE result. [8:48] Justin Katz, via Twitter, proposes a new state motto. [8:46] Bill Haberman on WPRO just reported that all 7…
…if Rhode Island didn’t award it’s electoral votes on a winner take-all basis, unless a candidate exceeded 62.5% of the popular vote! Why 62.5%, you ask? Read the answer here; it will remain valid at least through the 2020 election. Proportional allocation with winner-take-all above a certain threshold could be put into effect for the…
So today is the day. Big election. The fate of thousands of politicians is in our hands. And our own too. No matter what the result, life will go on, albeit with sunnier or cloudier skies depending on your outlook. It’s unfortunate that who we elect for President (or for any office) is as important…
I might come back and update this post as the day goes on. I voted at the same time today as I did on primary day. On primary day, I casted the seventh ballot at my precinct. Today, I casted the 184th. Where were you people?! Seriously. Do you realize that many elections are decided…
Kudos to WPRI’s Tim White for catching this. Rhode Island teachers were absent from school more than their colleagues anywhere else in the country, according to a report by a national think tank. The findings – released Monday by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C. – examined data…
Pre-election restlessness; race, politics, and advancement; differing job estimates without optimism; situational social issue calculus; old media as the election’s big loser. Continue reading on the Ocean State Current…
…The final Gallup poll has tightened…the RCP average is now slightly in Obama’s favor…CNN has the race about tied too, but in a sample that was 41% Democratic, 30% Republican… Blogger Bob Krumm has some interesting speculation about what Presidential election projections from five national major pollsters/poll analysts could mean (scroll down to just below…
Based on some chatter in the Twittersphere over the weekend, it appears the claim is still alive and well that Rhode Island Speaker of House Gordon Fox didn’t know that the state’s Economic Development Corporation would consider awarding $75M in loan guarantees to a single company (that eventually went under), utilizing a $125M pool that…
Apparently the state of Rhode Island doesn’t. The state is owed $1,245,200 as of August, and possibly more by now. According to a monthly report from the RI Board of Elections, more than 250 politicians, candidates and Political Action Committees (PAC), both past and present, owe amounts ranging from as little as $25 to as…