Alabama will see a female candidate and a male candidate for US Senate in November, both are from the same city
With a majority of precincts reporting in the Democratic field, state Sen. Vivian Davis Figures had captured almost two-thirds of the vote to beat retired security consultant Johnny Swanson of Birmingham and Haleyville truck driver Mark "No NCAA" Townsend. Figures had 111,864 votes, 64 percent. Johnny Swanson III ran second with 38,691 votes, or 22 percent, and Mark "No NCAA" Townsend was third with 25,014 votes, or 14 percent.
There was no contest for the republicans in this race for US Senate, Sessions walks with the full cake on Tuesday night. Sessions had 199,569 votes, or 92 percent, and retired postal worker Earl Mack Gavin tallied 16,703 votes, or 8 percent.
Figures attributed her victory to crisscrossing the state in a low-budget, grassroots campaign on her days off the Legislature this spring. "We took what we had and made what we needed," she said Tuesday night at a victory party in Mobile.
Sessions said -"I look forward to traveling to every corner of the state as we run a vigorous campaign during the general election this fall."
Man say this race has no chance to becoming democratic this fall, I think differently. We should take another look at this now that Barack Obama is the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party this fall. This is a race to watch in November.
