Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:27:15 AM
The Winner Of The Last Undecided US House Race Has Just Been Announced
...turned out to be the closest in the country...
UPDATE: Republican Martha McSally has been declared the winner of the last undecided House race — the Arizona seat now confirmed to be a GOP takeaway 43 days after the November midterms. McSally won by 167 votes out of hundreds of thousands cast.
She’s a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy who placed first in her class at the Air War College, then went on to become the first woman to fly in combat when she piloted A-10 fighter aircraft over Iraq and Kuwait.
And soon, Martha McSally, age 48, could become Arizona’s first female Republican to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The nation’s sole undecided House race from the 2014 midterms will be settled tomorrow, when the results of a painstaking recount will be announced.
The contest in Arizona’s Congressional District 2 turned out to be the closest in the country. When the mandatory recount began, GOP challenger McSally led Democrat incumbent Rep. Ron Barber by a razor-thin 161 vote margin out of more than a quarter-million ballots cast.
An online report by the Arizona Daily Star notes that the Democrat now holding the congressional seat went into the election with something of an advantage based on voter emotion over a traumatic event:
Barber, a former staffer for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was hoping for a second full term in office.
Both he and and his boss were shot in a Jan. 8, 2011, assassination attempt on Giffords’ life that left six people dead and 11 others injured.
Though the recount has concluded, Arizona’s Secretary of State has to send the results to a Maricopa County Superior Court judge for certification. The official announcement of the winner will be made at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
In its endorsement of her candidacy, McSally was called “a force to be reckoned with” by The Arizona Republic:
…the former A-10 squadron leader would be even more forceful. Of still more value, however, is the impressive grasp of foreign policy that McSally’s military career has provided her.
If she maintains her lead and wins the contest, the Republicans will have a total of 247 House seats, while the Democrats will hold only 188.
The resulting color-coded map will look like this, except that the southern Arizona district will be red and not gray.
www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-the-winner-of-the-last-undecided-us-house-race-has-just-been-announced/#RqTSby80zIFqOfP9.99
...turned out to be the closest in the country...
UPDATE: Republican Martha McSally has been declared the winner of the last undecided House race — the Arizona seat now confirmed to be a GOP takeaway 43 days after the November midterms. McSally won by 167 votes out of hundreds of thousands cast.
She’s a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy who placed first in her class at the Air War College, then went on to become the first woman to fly in combat when she piloted A-10 fighter aircraft over Iraq and Kuwait.
And soon, Martha McSally, age 48, could become Arizona’s first female Republican to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The nation’s sole undecided House race from the 2014 midterms will be settled tomorrow, when the results of a painstaking recount will be announced.
The contest in Arizona’s Congressional District 2 turned out to be the closest in the country. When the mandatory recount began, GOP challenger McSally led Democrat incumbent Rep. Ron Barber by a razor-thin 161 vote margin out of more than a quarter-million ballots cast.
An online report by the Arizona Daily Star notes that the Democrat now holding the congressional seat went into the election with something of an advantage based on voter emotion over a traumatic event:
Barber, a former staffer for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was hoping for a second full term in office.
Both he and and his boss were shot in a Jan. 8, 2011, assassination attempt on Giffords’ life that left six people dead and 11 others injured.
Though the recount has concluded, Arizona’s Secretary of State has to send the results to a Maricopa County Superior Court judge for certification. The official announcement of the winner will be made at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
In its endorsement of her candidacy, McSally was called “a force to be reckoned with” by The Arizona Republic:
…the former A-10 squadron leader would be even more forceful. Of still more value, however, is the impressive grasp of foreign policy that McSally’s military career has provided her.
If she maintains her lead and wins the contest, the Republicans will have a total of 247 House seats, while the Democrats will hold only 188.
The resulting color-coded map will look like this, except that the southern Arizona district will be red and not gray.
www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-the-winner-of-the-last-undecided-us-house-race-has-just-been-announced/#RqTSby80zIFqOfP9.99
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