60th District House Race – Update #1

This one isn’t going to take long to analyze…

Halifax County’s James Edmunds is the incumbent and is facing Farmville’s Jasper Hendricks. The last Democratic candidate for this district was back in 2004 and even that wasn’t pretty, with the Democratic candidate losing by a 33%-67% margin. Ain’t nothin’ changed for this election, folks. Jasper Hendricks has been virtually invisible in this campaign.

Strengths & Weaknesses:

• Edmunds: He’s got the power of incumbency and the power of campaign cash. We’ve questioned a few of Edmunds’ votes before but he’s represented the region rather well. If there’s any weakness, it’s that Edmunds has never had an opponent so far in the election. That’s no weakness here.
• Hendricks: What? Who? Where?

Now to the Path To Victory for these candidates…

Path To Victory:

• Edmunds: Edmunds will easily win this election if he keeps breathing. He’d probably still win if he stopped breathing.
• Hendricks: Hendricks will probably win this election if the rest of the world except for him is destroyed by a giant meteor like from the Armageddon movie.  You’ll notice that I had to say “probably” even in that circumstance.

Final Analysis:

Nobody really knows that James Edmunds has an opponent. The few that do will probably vote for Edmunds anyway.

SouthsideCentral is writing this prediction in concrete. This race is clearly “Totally Safe – Edmunds” and will remain that way until the polls close. Bank on that.