Via Mac the War Liberal, the website for Artur Davis for Congress. The final (but unofficial) results in the 7th District were incumbent Earl Hilliard 46,562 (46%) in a runoff with Artur Davis 43,374 (43%)--the difference is 3,188 votes. The swing votes will come from supporters of Sam Wiggins III, who received 11,376 votes, or 11% of the total.

Given that Hilliard is the incumbent, and figuring that anyone who didn't vote for him the first time would not be likely to vote for him in a runoff, means that there is hope that the long-suffering citizens of the 7th District might actually be able to elect a representative who isn't trying to make sure all of the members of his family have a job funded by misdirected federal funds. Don't worry about the Duke of Earl if he's not reelected, though--it'll give him plenty of time to go fishin' with his good buddy Muammar.

As Mac pointed out, though, the race is far from over, especially with no Democratic gubernatorial run-off to bring people in to the polls and with the advantage (?) of incumbency for Mr. Earl. Get ready to rumble, fellows.
posted by Terry at 11:44:00 AM