A8 u WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012 ELECTION 2012 BRISTOL HERALD COURIER u TriCities.com How we voted: SOUTHWEST

City/county PRESIDENT U.S. HOUSE/Ninth District U.S. SENATE Barack Mitt Anthony Morgan George Tim OBAMA ROMNEY FLACCAVENTO GRIFFITH ALLEN KAINE Democrat Republican Democrat Republican Republican Democrat incumbent challenger challenger incumbent

BRISTOL 2,487 4,776 2,859 4,337 4,590 2,677 NORTON 892 566 676 798 858 619 OTHER NUMBERS BUCHANAN 3,094 6,433 3,760 5,686 6,129 3,408 All totals are unofficial and reflect the ballot counts as of DICKENSON 2,472 4,274 3,234 3,564 4,064 2,767 press time. LEE 2,593 6,845 3,452 5,938 6,103 2,666 RUSSELL 3,716 8,177 5,035 6,863 7,713 4,238 IN VIRGINIA SCOTT 2,394 7,435 3,135 6,707 7,118 2,803 Local offices SMYTH 4,169 8,376 5,061 7,339 7,954 4,526 Uncontested seats in TAZEWELL 3,652 13,823 4,566 12,550 13,459 4,309 Southwest Virginia: WASHINGTON 6,990 17,888 9,176 15,649 17,179 7,812 » In Washington County, Randy Pennington received 1,817 votes WISE 3,751 11,041 5,166 8,542 10,487 4,222 for the District B seat on the WYTHE 3,780 8,324 4,016 7,947 8,079 4,029 Board of Supervisors with three Total 9th District 106,513 193,965 113,256 179,871 187,949 115,265 of five precincts reporting. » As of press time, no votes Total Statewide 1,624,579 1,594,426 1,525,989 1,597,585 were posted for William Gentry Jr., who was unopposed for a How we voted: TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA. seat on the Glade Spring Town Council. BLUEFIELD CEDAR BLUFF POCAHONTAS RICHLANDS TAZEWELL » In Norton, Mark A. Caruso and Terry L. Roop filled two City MAYOR MAYOR MAYOR MAYOR MAYOR Council seats, getting 964 votes Harris 1,176 Herron 337 Gibson 115 White 1,608 Blackwell 763 and 849 votes respectively. Presley 293 Buchanan 1,084 » Also in Norton, Sherry Begley Adams and Mark R. Leonard Riffe 0970 filled two School Board seats, TOWN TOWN TOWN TOWN TOWN getting 900 votes and 801 votes COUNCIL COUNCIL COUNCIL COUNCIL COUNCIL respectively. Linkous 1,726 Brown 234 Hunley 76 Keith 795 Blankenship 843 Federal offices Trigg 1,463 Cantrell 264 Pauley 33 McCracken 1,172 Buffalow 722 Other presidential candidates: » Constitution Party candidate Stevenson 100 Scott 119 Meadows 1,011 Catron 902 Virgil Goode received 12,756 Trent 236 Ratliff 1,131 Conn 699 votes, Libertarian Party can- Whitt 213 Fox 1,144 didate received 27,969 votes and Green Party NOTE: The total number of seats for each town council are: Bluefield, 2; Cedar Bluff, 3; Pocahontas, 4; Richlands, 3; and Tazewell, 3. candidate received How we voted: 7,735 votes.

PRESIDENT U.S. HOUSE/FIRST District STATE HOUSE/THIRD DISTRICT IN TENNESSEE Barack Mitt Alan Phil Timothy Leah Federal offices Tennessee’s U.S. Senate race: OBAMA ROMNEY WOODRUFF ROE HILL KIRK » Incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Democrat Republican Democrat Republican Republican Democrat Corker received 1,464,131 votes incumbent challenger challenger incumbent while Democratic challenger Mark E. Clayton got 673,387 Sullivan County 15,303 43,528 11,851 43,828 8,949 2,877 votes. Constitution Party candidate Kermit Steck received Total District 56,344 162,115 47,015 180,192 15,753 4,353 17,823 votes and Green Party Total Statewide 905,297 1,382,540 candidate Martin Pleasant got 36,535 votes. How we voted: VIRGINIA » Also in the Senate race, inde- pendent candidates Shaun E. Virginia Eminent Domain Amendment, Question 1 Virginia Veto Session Amendment, Question 2 Crowell received 20,186 votes, David Gatchell got 6,260 votes, Shall Section 11 of Article I (Bill of Rights) of the Constitution of Virginia be amended (i) Shall Section 6 of Article IV (Legislature) of the Constitution of James Higdon received 7,795 to require that eminent domain only be exercised where the property taken or dam- Virginia concerning legislative sessions be amended to allow votes, Michel Joseph Long got aged is for public use and, except for utilities or the elimination of a public nuisance, not the General Assembly to delay by no more than one week the 7,827 votes and Troy Stephen where the primary use is for private gain, private benefit, private enterprise, increasing fixed starting date for the reconvened or “veto” session when Scoggin received 6,906 votes. jobs, increasing tax revenue, or economic development; (ii) to define what is included the General Assembly meets after a session to consider the Other presidential candidates: in just compensation for such taking or damaging of property; and (iii) to prohibit the bills returned to it by the Governor with vetoes or amend- taking or damaging of more private property than is necessary for the public use? ments? » Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode received 5,819 YES NO YES NO votes, and Green Party candidate SW Va. 93,587 20,280 104,325 20,813 Jill Stein received 6,140 votes. Independent candidates Ross Statewide 1,980,058 653,155 2,137,979 466,885 C. “Rocky” Anderson received NOTE: All numbers are unofficial and reflect the ballot counts as of press time. 2,542 votes, Gary Johnson SOURCES: The Associated Press / SULLIVAN COUNTY: www.scelect.org / VIRGINIA: www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov / TENNESSEE: www.tn.gov received 17,549 votes and received 1,696 votes. Other 1st District-Tenn. U.S. Kaine overcame Allen’s strategy to link him to Obama House candidates: By Ben Pershing to message to the mood of the tance of every decision. of his entire anti-Kaine message, » Green Party candidate Robert The Washington Post. voters. Kaine’s team was proved “These candidates were both warning the Democrat would be N. Smith received 1,562 votes. right Tuesday night. pretty well known and well de- “Obama’s senator, not Virgin- Independent candidates Karen Early in their race for a U.S. “We made a few assumptions fined,” said Jennifer Duffy, a se- ia’s.” Sherry Brackett received 2,749 Senate seat, George Allen’s cam- early on,” Kaine adviser Mo El- nior editor at the nonpartisan Chris LaCivita, a GOP consul- votes,and Michael D. Salyer paign made a strategically im- leithee said election night. “We Cook Political Report. tant who has worked for Allen, received 1,064 votes. portant decision: to incessantly said a positive message might Given that Kaine had just fin- said tying Kaine to Obama was State offices attack Tim Kaine as a shill for actually work ... . The other side, ished a stint as Obama’s choice crucial because it dented Kaine’s President Obama and his liberal very early in this campaign, for Democratic National Com- preferred image as a moderate » Tennessee’s 4th District policies. made a strategic decision that mittee chairman, it was expect- willing to work across the aisle. state Senate seat: Unopposed The move was either a savvy they were going to be running ed that his relationship with the The strategy, LaCivita said, Republican incumbent Sen. Ron way for Allen to undermine the against President Obama and president — and support for the “mitigated the ability for their Ramsey of Blountville received core message of Kaine’s candi- trying to link Tim Kaine to the administration’s health-care and side to say that Allen is noth- 54,451 votes. dacy, or a waste of money that president. They lacked any for- stimulus legislation — would be ing more than a partisan hack. Tennessee’s 1st District state fundamentally misread Virgin- ward-looking approach.” an issue during the campaign. Fighting that issue to a draw was House seat: ia’s political direction. Multiple advisers to the cam- But from the start Kaine re- a win for Allen.” » Unopposed Republican Repeatedly in their grueling paigns of the two former gover- fused to distance himself from Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., incumbent Rep. Jon Lundberg of 19-month contest, Allen, a Re- nors, who spoke on the condi- Obama, instead agreeing with disagreed. Bristol received 17,005 votes. publican and Kaine, a Democrat, tion of anonymity to talk frankly the president on most issues, “I think it actually backfired,” Tennessee’s 3rd District state made starkly different calcula- about internal deliberations, and even taking a speaking slot at Connolly said. “This is not Wy- House seat: tions about the best way to win outside experts agreed the con- the Democratic National Con- oming. President Obama has » Green Party candidate the seat of retiring Sen. James test was tight from beginning to vention in Charlotte, N.C.. Allen maintained his popularity and Suzanne Parker received 829 Webb, a Democrat, from money end, underscoring the impor- chose to make their ties a focus standing in Virginia all along. “ votes. GOP gets supermajority in The Associated Press Barnes of Clarksville was defeat- was in 1976, when Democrats said Senate Republican Caucus nent, former state Sen. Rosalind ed by Mark Green in District 22, took control of the Senate 23-9 Chairman Bill Ketron. “We are Kurita. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennes- and Republican of and the House 66-32, according humbled by the confidence the Kurita was ousted as the Dem- see Republicans earned their Hohenwald defeated Tyler “Ty” to legislative records. voters have placed in us and look ocratic nominee in her bid for first supermajority in the state Cobb in District 28. State Republicans haven’t forward to getting down to work re-election to the Tennessee Senate Tuesday and were threat- The GOP also was aiming to get held a supermajority in either on the many issues we face as General Assembly after Demo- ening to do the same in the a supermajority in the House, chamber since Reconstruction, the General Assembly convenes cratic officials declared her 19- House. where only two seats were also but this year Republican legisla- in January.” vote primary win as “incurably The GOP claimed at least two needed. The margin was 64-34, tive candidates had a campaign Green was asked to run by Sen- uncertain,” allowing Barnes to seats in Tuesday’s election to with one independent, going funding advantage in just about ate Speaker and has succeed her. take a 22-11 margin in the upper into the election. all their races. been endorsed by U.S. Sen. La- Republicans have spent thou- chamber. The last time a party won a su- “We are very excited about the mar Alexander, Gov. Bill Haslam sands of dollars on negative Democratic incumbent Tim permajority in both chambers gains we have made tonight,” and Barnes’ 2008 primary oppo- campaign ads targeting Barnes.