{"id":10977,"date":"2014-11-04T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10977"},"modified":"2014-11-04T23:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T04:54:55","slug":"electionthoughts-1142014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/04\/electionthoughts-1142014\/","title":{"rendered":"ElectionThoughts! (11\/4\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Election Day, and we&#8217;re doing a Very Special Episode of RandomThoughts! to celebrate. Refresh the page often throughout the day and night to get the latest on what we&#8217;re thinking about. We&#8217;ll think about election happenings, election predictions, election results and election everything. Heck, there may be even non-election stuff here. SouthsideCentral is also very active on Twitter today. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sosidecentral\" target=\"_blank\">You can check out our Twitter feed here and feel free to follow us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>ElectionThoughts! on that famous Big Board, please.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This year&#8217;s 5th District congressional race has been horribly boring in the last 6 weeks. Although challenger Lawrence Gaughan is a nice guy and really believes in his stands on the issues, his campaign was doomed by a lack of financing.. Robert Hurt continues to run a well-oiled campaign machine and will easily deflect his Democratic challenger just like he did in 2012. Whatever happened to John Douglass anyway? Anyway, we could go ahead and project the race now but we&#8217;ll wait until the polls close. <strong>PREDICTION<\/strong>: Hurt 65%, Gaughan 35%<\/li>\n<li>The US Senate race has gotten more interesting in the past six weeks, but Mark Warner seems to be cruising to a comfortable victory. Ed Gillespie never seemed to get over the hump in the race, and Warner&#8217;s power of likeability has deflected almost every criticism thrown at him. Although I think Gillespie will beat him in the Southside region, Northern Virginia will obliterate Southside&#8217;s vote power as usual. <strong>PREDICTION<\/strong>: Warner 54%, Gillespie 45%, Sarvis 1%<\/li>\n<li>Normally Clerk of Court races are drier than the desert. The special election for Halifax County got a little interesting in the last week as some narrow-minded people tried to inject gay marriage into the race. Yeah, I&#8217;m serious. Acting Clerk of Court Cathy Cosby has plenty of experience, but god forbid that she is authorized to perform marriages and she married a gay couple. Yep, you guessed it. Some local religious folks decided to be horrified about that. Her challenger, Donnie Amos, issued a statement that he would not get certified to perform marriages. He&#8217;ll sadly pick up some votes for that, but nowhere close to make this race competitive. <strong>PREDICTION<\/strong>: Cosby 62%, Amos 38%.<\/li>\n<li>5:20 PM &#8211; I haven&#8217;t mentioned the municipal races in the towns of Virgilina &amp; Halifax because every person is running unopposed. How boring.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m watching the Martinsville City Council race. Gene Teague should win reelection and they&#8217;ll vote one new person on as well.<\/li>\n<li>10:20 PM &#8211; I came pretty close on the Hurt\/Gaughan race. It ended up Hurt 61%, Gaughan 36%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Election Day, and we&#8217;re doing a Very Special Episode of RandomThoughts! to celebrate. Refresh the page often throughout the day and night to get the latest on what we&#8217;re thinking about. We&#8217;ll think about election happenings, election predictions, election results and election everything. Heck, there may be even non-election stuff here. 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The 2013 election season is over and we're now getting ready for the 2014 elections (sigh). Let's do some RandomThoughts about what happened in the SouthsideCentral region and more... These RandomThoughts are in no specific order. That's why they're called random. Duh. Wow. 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