Indiana

DEMOCRAT WINS DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

By now you know Andre Carson, the grandson of the late Julia Carson, is on his way to Washington. Carson won 54-43 percent over Republican State Representative Jon Elrod. Libertarian Sean Shepard got slightly less than three percent of the vote. Turn out was about 18 percent or a total of 84,750 voters out of 466,000.

Carson told supporters he has to hit the ground running, and he’s right. Some of his fellow Democratic challengers are already starting the campaign for the May primary. State Representative David Orenlichter is announcing his candidacy today in Kennedy-King park. Alons side of him will be Dr. Derek King the nephew of Dr. Martin Luther King. Another challenger, Dr. Woody Meyers has already unveiled his campaign commercials.

It really should not surprise anyone that a Democrat in a predominately Democratic district won with a majority of Democratic votes. So it will be interesting to see which Democratic comes out of the May primary.

What makes me think it will be a fun race is that Carson got less than nine percent of the registered vote in the 7th Congressional District.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).