Is this a good chunk of the electorate? If so, it doesn't look good for Meares.

7.9% EV

Very low turnout today, though, from my observation. 20% turnout will be good.

A sad day for Blount County.

The Meares race wasn't even close. In fact, it was the same ratio as the Cunningham-Gallagher race.

The good news is that Blount County seems to be 60-40 now and not 75-25 as in the past. This is the second high-profile partisan election to come out this way.

The bad news is that it's still 60-40, many voters are still machine-driven Republicans, and it will take several more years before it gets to 50-50.

This is more than a sad day for Blount County. It demonstrates that this county has an Electorate that may not be much better than the crooked political machine now running it. When the voters will not vote out those who are associated with the political machine then what does that say for that area? For those who seek to make a better life for all Citizens?

It is a great example of why public education needs to be ended in Blount County, Tennessee, (city or county) because if these voters were not taught any better than to keep a corrupt political machine in power, then they have not learned anything at all, in any way, form, or fashion.

A sad day indeed but there is always hope for an eventual change of such rampant and hardcore rife corruption to be ended and the American way of governing brought back to this area.

The US Constitution, read it, live it, and protect is at all costs. It is what makes us American and let's us live free.

This has been a long day. Simple to say we monkeys were unable to get our base to the polls. Tomorrow morning the headlines should read Bend Over Blount County because you deserve what you are about to get and ol' JC will be able to call us even more names.

Now we will have Samples as Chair of the County Commission and the Commission will select a new member to fill Ramsey's seat. Watch for Kirk Andrews to become the new Sessions Judge compliments of our Conceptual Commission.

Finney carried Blount County so bestiality must be a problem here, eh? Too bad Sevier County likes to remove our mountain tops since DumpTrucks for Doug seems to have worked well.

The DT once again really screwed up as the Meares HQ phone still works well and perhaps they should have actually tried the correct number when they called for comments.

All the voter complaints are true- and more strange and not nice things happened than that which was reported. Those who worked so hard covering the polling sites today will tell you that we were received with overwhelming support from those coming and going. The question now is if the 40% are really madder than the 60% who are out making land deals.

You come here, lamenting the Left's Loss, citing corruption, spouting the Constitution; yet you defend the communication of Scooter Libby's sentence, and defend Rove & Cheney's treason that any normal citizen would be executed for? Blount County's major problem has been with its hardcore fetish with Ancestrial Political leanings, and their Jim Adkisson Values, they hold above logic and compassion for their fellow man. Based on your posts there, you've come here for a fishing expedition, and I pity any fool that takes the bait.

Wanted:
Democrats
Blount County, Tennessee
Beautiful community.
Relatively friendly (if you don't mind being called a monkey).
Close to mountains, rivers, lakes, parks.
Medium to low cost of living.

ThrutForever:

How many Terrorist attacks have we had since September 9-11? I honor those that died, and I pray nightly for the victims that are still in recovery. I've yet to hear anyone on any blog refute the freakish manifesto Adkisson had in his van. His manifesto is identical, in some cases, to the hard line rhetoric one can find in almost all of the right wing conservative posts, both here and the many other blogs in east Tennessee. Osama bin Laden, Cho Seung-Hui, Timothy McVeigh, and Jim Adkisson--which one of these people is worse than the other? Tell me please, for I'd like to know if you have to be of another faith or race to be a terrorist, for this whole War on Terror is starting to stink to the core. I don't know what tapping my phone calls did to stop Cho Seung-Hui and Jim Adkisson, but I'm sure the Bush protectionists will have an answer.

This is way off topic of Blount County election returns. Some days I wonder why I even bother to operate a blog at all.

Can't get to the returns from your link now.

Found the link to individual precinct results:

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"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference." --Voltaire

Yeah, I know about Finney's environmental record, and Overbey's suckuppance to the Cunningham mafia. But Raymond Finney was a disgrace. He was a right-wing extremist and deserved to be shunted out of politics here forever. I can't believe that Sevier County came through and saved the dignity of this district.