Credit: Photo courtesy Rick Noriega campaign

Boyd Richie may be crowing about how this is a great day for Democrats, but I think it’s a pretty sad one. Once again, that idiot Gene Kelly has put his name on the Democratic ballot, and once again, hundreds of thousands of even bigger idiots have voted for him and might force the serious Democratic U.S. Senate candidate into a runoff. It’s pathetic. With just under half the vote counted, here are the latest numbers in that race:

Gene Kelly 393,307 votes 27.44%
Ray McMurrey 185,766 12.96%
Richard J. (Rick) Noriega 707,402 49.36%
Rhett R. Smith 146,570 10.22%

This article appears in February 29 • 2008.

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