ASUO ELECTIONS: PRIMARY RESULTS
With all precincts reporting, the 2007 ASUO Primary results are as follows:
Executive: Runoff between Sara Hamilton and Athan Papailiou of Campaign For Change and Emily McLain and San SunOwen of Working For You (3rd place, Ari Lesser and Phil Wood with 750 votes)
Seat 1: Runoff between Keith Basset of Campaign For Change and Kate Davis of the Campus Improvement Movement
Seat 3: Runoff between Neil Brown of Campaign For Change and Shalan Ryan of PAC8!
Seat 4: Runoff between Kate Jones of Campaign For Change and Oscar Guerra of PAC8!
Seat 6: Runoff between Samantha Brodey of Campaign For Change and Diego Hernandez of PAC8!
Seat 7: Runoff between Karen Trippe of Campaign For Change and Michael Reta of PAC8!
Seat 9: Runoff between Donnie Kim of Campaign For Change and Kari Henryckx of PAC8!
Seat 11: Won outright by Lee Warnecke of Campaign For Cange
Seat 13: Won outright by Dan Feldman of Campaign For Change
Seat 15 : Runoff Between Noor Rajabzadeh of Campaign For Change and Samantha Brotman of Campus Improvement Movement
Seat 17: Won outright by Kevin Parks
PFC At Large: Won outright by Jacob Brennan of Campaign For Change
ADFC At Large: Won outright by Rob Morse of Campaign For Change
EMU At Large: Race unaffected by primary voting
ASPAC: Runoff between Brandon Sanders of Campaign For Change and Mary Evans of Campus Improvement Movement
Analysis: If this were the general election, it would have been a clean sweep by Campaign For Change. Their candidates are leading each position by a margin of at least 100 votes, and are leading the Exec race by some 200. PAC8! showed well, getting several candidates into striking range. The Campus Improvement Movement emerged in a more disappointing position, placing 4th (and well back from the top 3) in the Exec race, and only getting 3 candidates past the primaries. Lesser and Wood were clearly the surprise of the election, placing 3rd by about the same amount of votes separating Hamilton and McLain in 1st and 2nd (about 200 votes).
The commanding leads in every seat indicates a runaway victory in generals for Campaign For Change. In the Exec race, McLain could swing the vote back to a dead heat if she gets all of Lessers voters in her column. Even under these circumstances, there seems little standing in the way of a Campaign For Change dominated Senate next year. Voting in the General Election begins on Monday. Log onto duckweb to vote.
