The Musings from Maytown poll for the Democratic Primary for Governor ended with the following results:
Ron Sparks 23 for 37%
Artur Davis 18 for 29%
Mike Dow 11 for 17%
Sue Bell Cobb 10 for 16%
The vote totalled 62 votes, far less than the Republican primary poll, held the week before. Ron Sparks is currently Agriculture Commissioner and hails from Dekalb County. Artur Davis is currently Congressman from Alabama's Seventh District and hails from Birmingham. Both Sparks and Davis have announced that they are candidates for Governor.
Mike Dow is former Mayor of Mobile and Sue Bell Cobb is Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Neither Dow nor Cobb is an announced candidate for Governor.Cobb would have to resign her position as Chief Justice. Cobb is the only Democrat on the Supreme Court, and is receiving pressure from some Democratic attorneys to remain on the Court and forgo a race for Governor.
Thank you for your answers in the recent polls.
3 comments:
Artur Davis had sterling interview on Bham NPR this morning.
First question was on Const Reform, an issue my State Senator says barely crosses his radar, though he did have discussions with the late Tom Corts about it five years or so ago.
It is going to be an interesting race. I imagine Rick Lance and Bob Terry will join Gary Fenton and sit it out.
Will be interesting to compare their "prophetic witness" to the ministers to whom MLKing sent the letter from the Bham Jail.
This fall would be great to have Lance and Fenton and Lenora Pate and Terry on panel with the Samford proff who wrote Blessed are the Peacemakers about King's letter from the Bham jail, to see in what way it should inflect their influence in Alabama in this historic race.
Artur Davis is the subject of a front page story in Today's June 4 NY Times.
Here is the link or you may have just as good or better luck googling the article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/us/05davis.html?_r=1&hp
It does not mention Rick Lance or Bob Terry.
I think that is a key aspect of this story.
How will Bob Terry, Rick Lance, Joe Godfrey and Gary Fenton digest Artur Davis's candidacy in the wake of Charles Marsh's lectures April 27 and 28 at Samford?
I really don't think there are that many people in Alabama who have ever heard of Rick Lance much less heard of him and others you mentioned. Maybe, church goer's, but not many of them appear to inteeted in said people.
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