Week Four - February 8, 2010

This was an intense week for the Capitol Fax Blog. We got to do some serious work on behalf of the blog. I covered the Dan Hynes campaign event on election day as the results were coming in, taking some footage of the event and keeping updated on the results as they rolled in. The actual night of the election was left unresolved, as the GOP and Dem Gov races, the GOP lt. gov race, the dem comptroller race and the 10th congressional races were left too close to call. The next day I filmed State Rep. Jack Franks's reaction to the situation and asked what Dan Hynes should do next.

Because AP and Kirk Dillard's campaign had different vote totals, Rich had us look at the election results of each county and check for discrepancies between the two results for each source. We managed to find that one of the counties in Dillard's total was incorrect, which explained why he had himself down by only 200 or so votes instead of 504. It was great knowing that our research actually meant something to the electoral process, given the circulation of Cap Fax and how this revealed the flaw in Dillard's vote total. As information rolled out about Scott Lee Cohen's background, we followed the drama until its resolution today with Cohen dropping out of the race. Now the attention will most likely turn to who the Dems pick to replace him on the ticket and the final results of the GOP Gov race, still left up in the air between Dillard and Brady.