Election 2007, the results in Cabarrus County.

Will I have to sell My crystal ball with which I made my election predictions yesterday?
Let's look at todays election results.

From what I can tell now (10 pm), it looks like I was right on the ball in Kannapolis and Mt. Pleasant, I made 1 mistake in Midland and Concord and made a few mistakes in Harrisburg.

In Kannapolis I was correct in predicting all the incumbents would get re-elected easily. So we'll have Richard Anderson, Kenneth B. Geathers and Roger Haas on the City Council for another 4 years.

In Mt. Pleasant it seems that my predictions were right on the ball. I'm happy to report that Mike Metcalf, a Democrat, is the top vote getter there. He'll be on the town council with W. Del Eudy. Maura Eberhardt, a Republican incumbent, got sent home.
The Mayor, Troy Barnhardt, was running unopposed and is of course also re-elected.

In Concord I thought that everyone would get re-elected except Jim Ramseur, who I had predicted would get narrowly beaten by Alex Porter. Seems that the citizens of Concord don't like change much because all the incumbents got re-elected.
Even the Ramseur-Porter race wasn't close, Ramseur got 57% of the vote. If yard signs could vote Alex Porter would have won this one.

In Midland I correctly predicted that Mike Tallent would get elected, but I was wrong about the 2nd elected official. Don Fleener won over the incumbent Darrell Page by a mere 36 votes.

Finally, In Harrisburg I made most of my mistakes. I knew Rhonda Poppen and Bob Scaggs would get elected, but had predicted that Joe Hallatschek and Leigh Thomas Brown would also get elected. In fact it seems now that next to Scaggs and Poppen the citizens of Harrisburg will have Jeffrey Redfern and Bill Williams on their town council.

Final score: Out of 13 predictions I have 9 right and 4 wrong. Not too bad actually.

Turnout for this election was, as expected, unfortunately low at almost 12%.
You can read all of the results on our Board of Elections website.

I'll post more commentary on the election results soon. Good night.