by Bret Hayworth, Sioux City Journal
[Last night], the three-man Woodbury County Recount Board finished two days of poring over more than 12,200 ballots from 10 city precincts by hand and machine, and again found incumbent Democrat Wes Whitead to be the winner.The original vote had Whitead beating Republican challenger Jeremy Taylor by a margin of 6,152 to 6,092. The recount had the tally at 6,148 to 6,093....
Although Taylor was disappointed to lose by only 55 votes, he said the recount resolved any questions he had about the process and that he was at peace with the results.
Read the complete article here.
And in other news...
Now that our neighbor to the south has (almost) officially gone for McCain, Josh Goodman over at Governing.com declares that Iowa is the new bellwether state.
It would sound like a great thing to be called, in fact a feather in Iowa's cap, if it didn't actually mean a castrated ram who leads the other sheep.
Um, thanks, we think.
