Five candidates filed so far....

...as of Friday, August 27, 2010.  Governor Perdue appointed Cressie Thigpen to the seat!  Thigpen has announced that he will file for the seat, but he hasn't done so yet.  So if Judge Thigpen files for the seat, it'll be a 6-way "ClusterF@#k"!

COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE (WYNN) (WYNN SEAT)

CASTEEN, JOHN WESLEY JR (U-W)

J. Wesley Casteen

DILLON, ROBERT CHRISTOPHER (R-W)

Chris Dillon

HAMMER, STANLEY F (D-W)

Stan Hammer

KLASS, MARK E (D-W)

Mark E. Klass

MCCULLOUGH, JOHN DOUGLAS (R-W)

Doug McCullough

Let's look at some stats:

D - 2 
R - 2
U - 1

If Judge Thigpen runs, there will be 3 Dems.

Now you know IRV is supposed to do wonderful things for minorities.  Does it?

Men - 5
Women - 0
% of women in NC in 2009 - 51%,
% of women in the Court of Appeals race - 0%
With Thigpen, there will still be 0% women running.

White - 5
Black - 0
Hispanic -0
% of whites - 100%
% of blacks - 0%
% of blacks if Thigpen runs - 16.67%.  But blacks make up 21.6% of the population

Still think IRV helps minorities?