Posted on 05/03/2022 6:17:30 AM PDT by cotton1706
Most of the base GOP voters now realize this 2022 primary season is as important to the 2022 outcome as the November election. However, as we have noted in the two-club system, the republican club leadership are using their familiar playbook. Here’s the situation with the Ohio governor’s race.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (pictured left) shut down businesses his state during COVID and was generally one of the worst “republican” governors in the country during the covid-19 fiasco. DeWine is a typical party/club insider, a left-leaning, ultra-sensitive, spineless worm who operates, like many politicians, as a republican in name only.
Ohio conservatives want to get rid of DeWine, but the club rules are designed to protect him. The GOPe has a perfectly executed splitter strategy in place in Ohio to protect DeWine, as you can see from the latest Republican polling:
DeWine has less than 50% support amid the republican voters in Ohio. However, challengers Jim Renacci and Joe Blystone are splitting the anti-DeWine vote, creating a scenario where DeWine is likely to win the primary with less than majority republican support. [Note; there is no runoff in Ohio, whoever gets the most votes wins the primary.]
These types of party rules are designed to protect the club’s selection.
The Ohio GOPe are always going to be in control of the outcome by organizing and maintaining the republican primary rules. It’s very likely when the final count takes place tomorrow, the combined Renacci/Blystone vote will exceed the votes of DeWine. However, DeWine will advance to the November election because the non-DeWine vote was split. That’s the splitter strategy in action.
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Elmer Fudd is the dumbest bastard ever to serve as Governor of Ohio. Watch him on Youtube and share our embarrassment.
Bush League Republicans have perfected that.
Flimsey Grahamnesty has been re-elected TWICE after THREE amnesty votes.
I think we are going to learn what we should already know today. We let things go too far and we are way too late to the fight. I hope I’m wrong.
“DeWine is a typical party/club insider, a left-leaning, ultra-sensitive, spineless worm who operates, like many politicians, as a republican in name only.”
When they went on and on with the DeWine/Acton fear hour, I didn’t know whether to throw up, or head to Columbus with bad intent. I voted Renacci because I figured he was most likely to beat DeWine, but I don’t have a lot of hope. Not only that, Renacci isn’t a whole lot better, he kind of reminds me of Ohio’s version of Darrell Issa. The difference is, I HATE DeWine, I merely dislike Renacci.
True. That is a lesson we knew and ignored from history.
Why didn’t the #3 republican drop out? Not united. It’s on the voters. Incumbency should not be that much off an advantage.
Three people running for governor. How is that "party rules are designed to protect the club’s selection" ???
If DeWine is so bad, why is he polling at 46.6%?
Renacci is 27% and Blystone is 19.3% - added together is 46.3% which is less than DeWine's 46.6%
Sounds like Ohio has an idiot voter problem more than anything. We love the guy who locked us down.
It's called the Stockholm syndrome and there is help for you.
Not me. Here in MO we locked down for all of three weeks which gave stores time to put up their silly plexiglas shields and put arrows on the floor. Many of us ignored the arrows so walmart gave up on them. They also gave up on the roped off entrances and mask rules because employees took their breaks right at the entrance with their mask on their chin while talking with maskless customers they knew personally. Little peaceful resistance and it happened at all big chain stores. By June 2020, most everyone had tossed the masks. I had worn one three times for 10 minutes each and never went back to those stores that insisted on masks. Kids went back to school in Fall 2020 as normal, maskless.
St Louis County kept a mask mandate for quite a while but I live in rural MO and am glad I do.
“If DeWine is so bad, why is he polling at 46.6%? Renacci is 27% and Blystone is 19.3% - added together is 46.3% which is less than DeWine’s 46.6%”
This is such a silly statement, I really don’t know how to respond. Polls are lucky if they’re within 10 points. So, using polling to make a point is not smart. Secondly, polls are used to push opinions, they are not informational and can not be relied on.
Splitting the base conservative base is a RINO tactic that is used consistently. Where campaigns are financed by the establishment not to win, but to split the vote. It looks like it will be effective once again.
Blystone was clearly a put up candidate by the party insiders to achieve just this split of the anti-DeWine vote. Whether he will succeed, we shall see. But few are fooled by this ringer.
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