March 2nd 2010 Republican Primary Results/Runoff Picks

Just over a month later, my belated, brief commentary on the March 2nd election results, with my picks for the runoff election. Once again primary turnout was pretty low (15.3%) but hey, who cares what happens in the stupid ol' government anyway?

District 10, United States Representative: McCaul hammered both challengers into the ground. It wasn't even close.

Governor: Debra Medina had the misfortune to share a race with Wobbly Kay. The Democrats reportedly turned out in (relatively) large numbers voting in the Republican primary to jump on the Hutchison bandwagon in an attempt to get an unsuitable Republican candidate for Governess on the ballot. Fortunately it didn't work, and this November's race for Governor is going to be a hotly contested one indeed.

Railroad Commissioner: Congratulations to Porter.

Place 3, Justice, Supreme Court: Rick Strange's name did it for him. He's out. Fortunately, so is crazy-eyes Simmons. Vote for Lehrmann on the 13, because Rick Green still has never been a judge, and therefore he can keep wanting a place on the Supreme Court.

Place 9, Justice, Supreme Court: Eva Guzman hit it out of the ballpark.

District 10, Member State Board of Education :Please vote for Brian Russell Rebecca Osborne missed the runoff by 5%

District 50, State Representative: Ryan Lambert loses. Next time get a friggen proofreader!

Place 4, Justice, 3rd Court of Appeals District: Melissa Goodwin takes the nomination. Good.

The Republican ballot propositions all went mid-80's percentage points YES except for the most controversial, which still passed a majority of voters saying YES. This proves once again my rule of thumb theory that all you have to do to get Travis County voters to approve something is get it on a ballot.