Talk:Ray Mabus

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[edit] primary results

i found the recent inclusion of primary results somewhat questionable, and welcome comments. first, the article doesn't include primary results from other races, so why this one? it looks as if the editor wanted to put a bad spin somehow, although I am sure that wasn't the intent. assuming that's not the case, then perhaps we need to clarify the article to make clearer that -- while the primary results may or may not be noteworthy for inclusion -- he didn't barely win the primary. As written, "He only garnered 50.8% of the vote in the Democratic primary over Congressman Wayne Dowdy--an unusually close margin for an incumbent governor." makes it sound as if he barely won and makes a value judgment without sourcing the analysis. But he won by 10 percentage points, a pretty good margin, and we need to make clear there was a third candidate. Again, comments welcome. Journalist1983 (talk) 23:51, 26 November 2007 (UTC)