Ohio Bothers Me

Air America ^ | Nov 28, 2004 | Owen

[Owen]

Any Ohio Freepers know anything that would explain this?

[Nataku X]

In NC more people voted for Easley than for Kerry. Therefore Karl Rove stole NC.

[steplock]

easy 257,000 smart BUSH voters liked her much more than her opponent.

DU'ers are soooo stupid.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Ohio bothered me too, but only when I lived in Western PA.

[paudio]

This is not the only split votes. Otherwise, we'll have another Republican senator from Colorado, a US Rep. from South Dakota, and governors in several red states.

[COEXERJ145]

In NC more people voted for Easley than for Kerry. Therefore Karl Rove stole NC.

Same thing in Texas. Congressional Districts that went solidly for President Bush also sent liberal Democrats back to the House. Go figure...

[konaice]

Thus for a more obscure Democratic candidate, farther down on the ticket, to get a quarter of a million more votes statewide than Kerry, suggests something happened to suggest there may have been a transfer of Kerry votes to Bush. This needs no explaining at all. All it means is that a significant number of black democrats can not stand Kerry. Same thing happened in FloriDA.

[blanknoone]

Lots of otherwise dems voting for Bush because they don't want to live under Sharia?

[OwnershipSociety]

Get out of here with this crap. How do you know it is "suspicious"?

How much electoral comparison have you done? How many years have you studied electoral politics and voting behavior?

Give me a friggin' break!

[traderrob6]

HHMMM and the source is soooo credible

[Dan from Michigan]

reveal that C. Ellen Connally, an African-American Democratic candidate from Cleveland for Ohio Chief Justice

Kerry may have PO'ed people off. From what I've heard, he also underperformed in SE Ohio which has a democrat tradition.

Also, a name that sounds like it could be Irish is usually an advantage in judicial races. It's one reason we have judges named Corrigan, Cavanaugh, and Kelly.

[anton]

Supreme Court candidates do not show party affiliation on the ballot and most people just guess. Ergo, a randon result.

Stop worring. Butler, Clermont, Warren counties are rock solid GOP territory.

[GraniteStateConservative]

All it means is that a significant number of black democrats can not stand Kerry.

They weren't sure Kerry had ever met any black people before running for President.

[E Rocc]

In NC more people voted for Easley than for Kerry. Therefore Karl Rove stole NC.

Or maybe all those people voted for Easley because he got an "A" from the NRA.

-Eric

[Dan from Michigan]

Not to mention those who vote for a women over a man every time when they don't know the candidates.

[ladyinred]

Oh for goodness sakes! This sort of thing happens all of the time. I am sick to death of this ridiculous stuff.

[bad company]

All across the country the black vote just didn't come out for kerry.

[anton]

I'm telling you, there is no party affiliation on the ballot.

[EllaMinnow]

do you know where they're getting the numbers? I can't find a total for Connally's race on the Ohio SoS website.

[Nataku X]

The South has a very tough pill to swallow in accepting that Grandma's Democratic Party doesn't exist anymore. Things are changing, though... just look at Georgia and Louisana Senatorial races and our clean South sweep. In a few more years this'll trickle down to the House races and then another few years it'll trickle down to the State races. I predict that within a decade, Republicans will become a monolith in the South just like the Democrat party used to be.