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Election Day & Early Voting

Fri., May 12, 2000

Early voting -- and thus early returns -- usually skew conservative. But not this time: Election day was good to the establishment front-runners -- and big spenders -- as Will Wynn and Danny Thomas both got a big boost on election day. Also trending sharply higher on Saturday was Raul Alvarez.

Candidate: Early Voting, Election Day

Kirk Watson: 82.0% , 84.7%

Rafael Quintanilla: 38.1%, 37.8%

Raul Alvarez: 28.1% , 33.0%

Will Wynn: 44.0%, 52.7%

Clare Barry:24.4%, 25.5%

Danny Thomas: 48.5%, 58.7%

Willie C. Lewis: 41.0% , 35.0%

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