Republican Dale Sweetland's hopes of representing the 25th District in Congress were erased early Tuesday evening. By 10:30pm, it was clear that Sweetland was not going to beat Democrat Dan Maffei. The final, unofficial vote tally was 54% for Maffei and 40% for Sweetland. Green Populist candidate Howie Hawkins took home 4% of the vote. Sweetland's campaign manager Bill Rapp said, "We had hoped more people who voted for Obama would pull the lever for us, but that obviously did not happen." Rapp is referring to Democrat Barack Obama who won the Presidential election. Meanwhile, Sweetland called Maffei on his cell phone after the results came in and wished him luck in office. The next election for 25th District Congress will be in 2010. Sweetland said he would not rule out running again.
A recap of election night from Republican headquarters:
Some more reactions from Sweetland after the election:
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