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Ohio Bothers Me
Air America ^ | Nov 28, 2004 | Owen

Posted on 11/28/2004 3:14:14 PM PST by Owen

A semi vanity, but here's the excerpt:

By suspicious, Jackson is referring to the latest analysis of the Nov. 2 vote by a coalition of Ohio voting rights activists. In analyzing the still-unofficial results, the totals reveal that C. Ellen Connally, an African-American Democratic candidate from Cleveland for Ohio Chief Justice, received more than 257,000 votes than Kerry.

In Butler County, for example, Connally had 45,457 more votes than Kerry. The reason these vote counts are suspect is because Connelly, a retired African-American judge, was vastly outspent in her race, and did not have the visibility of the presidential race. 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.

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“Statistically, Kerry, as the Democratic presidential candidate, should have more votes than Connally. In a presidential election, most voters have the priority of casting a vote for president and the votes for president are almost always much higher than those of candidates farther down the ticket. When voters vote for Democratic candidates farther down the ticket, it is usually being driven by a sample ballot from the Party, starting at the top with president. Many voters simply don’t vote for Supreme Court justices. It is highly improbable that Connally’s vote totals would be so much higher than Kerry’s,” Fitrakis said.


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Any Ohio Freepers know anything that would explain this?
1 posted on 11/28/2004 3:14:14 PM PST by Owen
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To: Owen

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


2 posted on 11/28/2004 3:16:03 PM PST by Nataku X (Lord, please guide President Bush, and please protect our soldiers in Fallujah.)
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To: Owen

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

DU'ers are soooo stupid.


3 posted on 11/28/2004 3:16:43 PM PST by steplock (http://www.outoftimeradio.org)
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To: Owen

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


4 posted on 11/28/2004 3:17:28 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Owen
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.
5 posted on 11/28/2004 3:19:03 PM PST by paudio (Four More Years..... Let's Use Them Wisely...)
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To: Nakatu X
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...

6 posted on 11/28/2004 3:19:07 PM PST by COEXERJ145
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To: Owen
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.
7 posted on 11/28/2004 3:20:05 PM PST by konaice
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To: Owen

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


8 posted on 11/28/2004 3:20:09 PM PST by blanknoone (The two big battles left in the War on Terror are against our State dept and our media.)
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To: Owen

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!


9 posted on 11/28/2004 3:21:21 PM PST by OwnershipSociety
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To: paudio

HHMMM and the source is soooo credible


10 posted on 11/28/2004 3:21:30 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Owen
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.

11 posted on 11/28/2004 3:21:35 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("now we got this guy in the Oval office who don't take no sh*t from no gimpy little countries!")
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To: Owen

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.


12 posted on 11/28/2004 3:22:47 PM PST by anton
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To: konaice
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.

13 posted on 11/28/2004 3:22:48 PM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Nakatu X
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

14 posted on 11/28/2004 3:22:50 PM PST by E Rocc (Help a liberal beat "PEST": Loan them "Unfit For Command".)
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To: Dan from Michigan

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


15 posted on 11/28/2004 3:22:52 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("now we got this guy in the Oval office who don't take no sh*t from no gimpy little countries!")
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To: Owen

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


16 posted on 11/28/2004 3:23:06 PM PST by ladyinred (Congratulations President Bush! Four more years!)
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To: Owen

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


17 posted on 11/28/2004 3:24:06 PM PST by bad company (I'm a new Grandpa.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

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


18 posted on 11/28/2004 3:24:06 PM PST by anton
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To: Owen

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


19 posted on 11/28/2004 3:25:27 PM PST by EllaMinnow (For the first time in over 20 years, I'm not represented by Bob Graham! Go MEL!! Viva Bush!)
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To: COEXERJ145

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.


20 posted on 11/28/2004 3:26:27 PM PST by Nataku X (Lord, please guide President Bush, and please protect our soldiers in Fallujah.)
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