Some observations:
-- State Rep. District 78: In the coming Margo-Moody matchup, the raw numbers favor the Democrat Moody. About 16,000 cast votes in the Democratic primary, about double the number of voters in the Republican primary. Numbers can be parsed, so it's not an absolute, but it is a strong starting position for Moody.
-- Sheriff: Wiles took about double the numbers of Leon, his former boss at the El Paso Police Department, but not enough to avoid a runoff. Who will the other candidates support?
-- Commissioner 3: Lozano doesn't even make the runoff?
-- Commissioner 1: Perez leads Sarinana into a runoff?
-- 448th District Court: Close call, but Hernandez pulls away from Olivo at the end to make the runoff against Arditti.
-- 65th District Court: Chavez leads into the runoff against Gutierrez.
-- The final tally shows about a third of registered voters participating -- 123,656 ballots cast from a registered voter pool of 368,747. And that's got everyone ga-ga over how great participation was?
Which brings us to ... unofficial final results from early voting and 170 precincts:
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President
-- Hillary Clinton: 69 percent, 71,229 votes
-- Barack Obama: 29 percent, 29,974 votes
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District Attorney
-- Jaime Esparza: 60 percent, 54,603 votes
-- Theresa Caballero: 40 percent, 36,243 votes
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Sheriff
-- Richard D. Wiles: 41 percent, 39,701 votes
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Carlos Leon: 20 percent, 19,594 votes
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Larry G. Wilkins:
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Robert Almonte:
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Jose Ramirez:
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Luis Garcia:
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Mary Lou Carrillo:
-- Gabriel Serna:
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County Commissioner Precinct 1
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Luis Sarinana (d): 35 percent, 9,165 votes
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Tomas Rey (d): 20 percent, 5,512 votes
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Annabell “Anna” Perez (d): 44 percent, 11,364 votes
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Alex Mendoza (r): unopposed
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County Commissioner Precinct 3
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Frank Lopez: 14 percent, 2,961 votes
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Guillermo “Willie” Gandara Jr.: 36 percent, 7,654
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Irma S. Sanchez: 27 percent, 5,774 votes
-- Jose Alexandro Lozano, 15 percent, 3,260 votes
-- Rogelio Lozoya, 7 percent, 1,448 votes
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U.S. Representative District 16
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Silvestre Reyes: 80 percent, 74,975 votes
-- Jorge Artelejo, 20 percent, 18,264 votes
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State Representative District 75
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Chente Quintanilla (d): unopposed
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Carlos “Charlie” Garza (r): unopposed
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State Representative District 77
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Marisa Marquez: 52 percent, 8,385 votes
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Paul C. Moreno: 48 percent, 7,858 votes
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State Representative District 78
Democratic
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Joseph E. Moody: 72 percent, 12959 votes
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Louis Irwin: 28 percent, 4,995 votes
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Republican
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Patrick B. “Pat” Haggerty: 43 percent, 3,888 votes
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Donald “Dee” Margo: 57 percent, 5,080 votes
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8th Court of Appeals Chief Justice
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David Wellington Chew: unopposed
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8th Court of Appeals Judge Place 3
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Guadalupe Rivera (d): 62 percent, 54,136 votes
-- David Guaderrama (d): 38 percent, 33,450 votes
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Kenneth Carr (r): unopposed
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34th District Court
Bill Moody: unopposed
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41st District Court
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Mary Anne Bramblett: 51 percent, 43,370 votes
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Jesus Olivas: 49 percent, 42,888 votes
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65th District Court
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Felix Saldivar Jr.: 27 percent, 22,836 votes
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Yahara Lisa Gutierrez: 32 percent, 27,332 votes
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Alfredo Chavez: 40 percent, 33,958 votes
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383rd District Court
Mike Herrera: unopposed
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388th Judicial District
Patricia A. Macias: 53 percent, 43,774 votes
-- Marlene Gonzalez, 27 percent, 22,672 votes
-- Lyda Ness Garcia, 20 percent, 16,505 votes
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409th District Court
Luz E. Sandoval: 37 percent, 30,679 votes
-- Sam Medrano Jr., 63 percent, 52,711 votes
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448th District Court
Democratic
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James M. Callan: 14 percent, 11,960 votes
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Edward Hernandez: 25 percent, 20,871 votes
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Rick Olivo: 24 percent, 20,008 votes
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Regina Arditti: 37 percent, 31,323 votes
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Republican
Chris Antcliff (r): unopposed
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County Criminal Court 1
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Manuel J. Barraza (d): 60 percent, 48,262 votes
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Jose Castillo (d): 40 percent, 32248 votes
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Don Minton (r): unopposed
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County Criminal Court 4
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Jesus Herrera: 67 percent, 53,540 votes
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Israel “Izzy” Parra: 33 percent, 25,796 votes
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Constable Precinct 2
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Rick Gammon: unopposed
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Constable Precinct 4
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Luis "Louie" Aguilar: 54 percent, 10,244 votes
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Pete Melendez: 46 percent, 8,617 votes
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Constable Precinct 7
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Angie Sommers (d): 39 percent, 3,564 votes
-- David Chavez (d): 41 percent, 3,750 votes
-- Tony Kosturakis (d): 19 percent, 1,741 votes
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King Merritt (r): 62 percent, 2,510 votes
-- German Avila (r): 38 percent, 1,554 votes
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Anna Perez
March 5, 2008
Thank you, NPT, for great reporting! Being in the run-off is very excitng and there is lots of work ahead for us. It is important that voters go out again one more time on April 9th. Thank you again, Anna