Page 10-Wednesday, November 5, 1980-The Michigan Daily County results_ County government officials fight close races to bitter end Minick still sheriff; prosecutor race close With 42 percent of the Washtenaw County vote in, incumbents for the offices of county clerk and register of deeds looked like projected winners. With punchcard ballots from Ypsilanti still being counted, county clerk Robert Harrison had garnered 53 percent of the vote over challenger Rose Marie Melton. Register of Deeds Patricia Hardy had 52 percent of the votes tallied in the race against Democrat Angie Jones Veigel. Hardy, 58, has served as register of deeds for 26 years. Veigel, 52, is a former Deputy County Clerk who has been operating a public, stenography business. Democrat Doris Case was a few percentage points ahead of County Treasurer Micheal Stimson for the post he was appointed to last May. Case has worked in the treasurer's office for 25 years and has said she plans to improve communication between the office and the public. In the vote for Drain Commissioner, James Murray captured 54 percent of the vote over Republican Margaret Yorks. Murray, 34, is a former energy coordinator for Washtenaw County. Four of five incumbent Washtenaw County com- missioners in Ann Arbor districts retained their seats on the board last night. In the 13th District Raymond Shoultz easily defeated incumbent Republican Wendall Allen to regain the position he had held for six years before losing the last election. Allen, a former membr of the Ann Arbor City Council, is employed in the Univer- sity Office of Affirmative Action. Meri Lou Murray, with 60 percent of the vote, staved off Republican challengr Gerald Vernigan in the 9th district. In the 10th District Democrat Thomas Burnham garnered 54 percent of the vote to defeat challenger Gerald Rees with 42percent of the vote counted. In the race for the 11th District seat Richard Walterhouse, a civil engineer, defeated Democrat Gregoy Scott, a past president of the Graduate Em- ployees Organization at the University. Walterhouse hs been on the board for 12 years.I University Law Prof. Donald Duquette won the 12th district seat over David Foulke, the head of Univer- sity housing security. Duquette, 33, directs a child advocacy law clinic. In the other two county commission seats represen- ting parts of Ann Arbor-the 14th and 15th distric- ts-Gerald Faye and Catherine McClary ran unop- posed. This story was written by City Editor Patricia Hagen with reports from Debi Davis and Maureen Fleming. While incumbent Washtenaw County Sheriff Tom Minick easily retained his job, the race for county prosecutor between incumbent William Delhey and Democrat Elizabeth Schwartz was close with the challenger edging ahead at press time. With 42 percent of the vote in, Schwartz had 50.52 percent of the vote to Delhey's 49.48 percent. Results from Ypsilanti were not yet available. At a Democratic campaign party at Thano's Restaurant last night, Schwartz said she had "expected it to be close." SCHWARTZ, a 1973 graduate of the University Law School who works in the State Appellate Defen- ders Office as a deputy defender, hadattacked Delhey's record during her campaign. Schwartz said she decided to challenge Delhey when she "became familiar with his record." She said the state appellate courts have chastized the county prosecutor's of- fice on several occasions. BUT DELHEY, who has held the post since 1964, is\proud of the con- viction record compiled by his of- fice. He said his staff prosecutes more than 1,000 cases a year with a 91 percent conviction rate. Meanwhile, Republican Minick won a second term as sheriff, cap- turing 67 percent of the Vote in the race against Democrat Lushin Salyer with 42 percent of the vote counted at press time. Minick, 40, has been the Washtenaw County Sheriff for three- and-one-half years. He was a com- manding officer with the Ann Arbor Police Department for 15 years and an investigator on the force for three. Why Carter lost His record was his downfall vote, and he lost the blue-collar vote. He barely won among union.members and Jewish voters-nearly one in five cast their ballots for independent John B. Anderson. Two-thirds of the nation's voters rated Carter's performance overall only fair or poor and more than three- fourths of those who felt that way voted for Reagan. One measure of Carter's un- popularity is the response to the question asking voters to give one or two reasons why they voted as they did. Two-thirds of the Reagan voters said they voted for the Republican because Carter is doing a bad job as president; nearly as many said it simply is time for a change in Washington. ANOTHER FACET of Carter's problems was clear in the defections among voters who supported him four years ago. Yesterday, the president got the votes of barely half of those people who voted for him in 1976. More than two in five cast their ballots for Reagan. On the issues, Carter fared almost as badly. More voters mentioned inflation as the reason for their vote than any other topic. Voters who felt that way suppor- ted Reagan by more than 3-to-1 over the incumbent. LOOKING AT it another way, two of every three voters said the president should be able to control inflation. Those voters went to Reagan 2-to-1. The second most important issue, the voters said, is strengthening America's I[At. position in the world. Voters who men- tioned that issue supported Reagan overwhelmingly. By a 3-to-2 margin, voters disap- proved of Carter's handling of the hostage crisis in Iran. Four of five o4 those who disapproved cast their vote for Reagan. EVEN ON unemployment, a traditionally Democratic issue, Carter fared badly. Among voters who saw that as their most important concern, he was barely ahead of Reagan. Carter's problems showed up in how some traditionally Democratic groups voted. For example, Reagan split th Jewish voters in New York with Carter, a strong showing for a GOP candidate. In Ohio, Reagan split the blue-collar vote with Carter and in Pennsylvania the GOP candidate carried the group. The blue-collar workers who supported Reagan were worried about inflation and defense matters. Among Carter's minority supporters, the key issue was reducing unem- ployment. But like other Carter suppor- ters, they said they voted for the president because they feared thad Reagan doesn't understand the nation's complex problems and might get the country into war. 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