Posted on 12/11/2007 7:01:17 PM PST by bilhosty
TOLEDO, Ohio — A Republican state lawmaker won a special congressional election Tuesday, hanging onto to a conservative district despite a strong push by Democrats.
Union-backed groups and Democrats were hoping to steal the seat from the GOP and make a big statement going into the 2008 election in Ohio, which is expected to again have a significant role in determining the next president.
Republican Bob Latta defeated Robin Weirauch to complete the term of U.S. Rep. Paul Gillmor who died in September from a fall at his Washington apartment.
Latta, the son of a former Ohio congressman, had 55 percent of the vote and Weirauch had 45 percent with 42 percent of the vote counted.
The 5th District in northwest Ohio is conservative and traditionally Republican. No Democrat has won the seat since the 1930s.
But Latta faced a stronger challenge than expected after winning a close primary race in
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Alas CfG had a different guy than Latta to support. I assume though Latta is miles better than the Dimwit.
seriously.
Thanks for pointing this out. I’m beginning to think that many freepers don’t think before they talk. RNC dumped almost a half million dollars into this race to hold a seat that went 61% for Bush in 2004.
That we held this seat was to be expected. That it was even this close is troubling. That it was this close, with so much RNC help, is doubly troubling.
The RNC won’t be able to help in other congressional races in ‘08, because it’ll be wisely devoting its energy to stopping Hillary/Obama/Edwards. And the DCCC is far outraising the NRCC right now—so the Libs will have the money, not us.
Unless we can find some fricking conservative credentials and show the American People we mean business, 2008 is going to be very, very ugly.
yes, he is. Latta would probably have done better, too, without the bitter primary and the opposition of CfG.
That’s a ray of hope in what is otherwise not terribly good news.
FWIW, Bush was outspent in 2004 when you add in all the 527s.
Heard it direct from Karl Rove.
yeah. We also heard from Karl Rove how Republicans were going to pick up seats in Congress in ‘06.
I’ve learned to stop listening to Karl Rove. He’s the one who got us into this mess in the first place.
The Congressional Republican majorities as well as the entire Bush administration indirectly helped the D’s win in ‘06 by behaving just like Democrats on most of the issues. Conservatives throughout the entire U.S. are truly upset when the Republican Party at every level decides to throw away conservatism instead of always using it to the best of abilities.
Are voters going to figure it out that Democrats want to destroy our prospering economy by raising taxes. It will result in rising unemployment.
How about our national security? Democrats are on the side of terrorists. They protect them at every turn.
It is also Democrats who want totally open borders. All these are highly Republican issues. Only a fool would vote for a Democrat.
The economy?
Illegal immigration?
Engergy?
National security?
To show how little the drive-bys want to touch this, I’m in Dayton, and didn’t even KNOW this election was going on now!
Nice pun. I think you meant to divide us but the donks certainly want to make us dive as a nation, too.
It must be good news. Not a peep out the LameStreamMedia.
I agree that this is nothing to get excited about, but you are way off on the “this close” comments. Spending money doesn’t simply translate into more votes, otherwise we’d all spend a billion dollars each election. There’s a limit.
We held the seat with about the same vote margin as the last election, with a guy that was NOT the incumbent. That’s a good sign that the republicans are back to being republicans.
The spending helps get name recognition for your candidate, but both sides spent enough for that. Turnout was OK, and the republicans were willing to show up as much as the democrats (leading to the reasonable margin of victory).
A couple of years ago the special election to fill Goss’ seat was extremely close — that was a harbinger of doom which came to pass in 2006. Maybe this shows that, with democrats in charge, people are forgetting the corruption of the Taft administration.
I lived in Cuyahoga county Ohio in 2004 and kept tripping over smelly hippies working for "Americans Coming Together" so yes I'd say that the Dems way outspent us in Ohiio in 2004 when adding in the 527's.
Best news in a long time. Thanks for the post.
You mean that most recent Taft who tried to run Ohio, not those of a century ago, right? (Least I hope that’s what you mean).
LOL. Close? It was a landslide win. Gillmor won in 2006 57% to 43%. He was an incumbent. This was a special election with the Rep running against a Dem who had run for the office in 2002 and 2004. The fact that Latta won 56.8 per cent to 42.9 percent and took all of the counties in the district is a decisive victory and far from troubling. Are you a troll?
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