Troy Balderson vs. Danny O’Connor: LIVE Ohio special election results

Conservative Review ^ | August 7, 2018 | staff

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Tonight, the Ohio special election widely seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump reaches its conclusion.

Republican Troy Balderson is running with Trump’s endorsement in a district the president won by 11 points in 2016. He’s running for a seat that has been held by a Republican since 1983, but his Democratic opponent, Danny O’Connor, is running surprisingly close to him. He’s a moderate Republican who supports a pathway to citizenship for so-called “Dreamers” and wants any Obamacare replacement to include pre-existing conditions regulations.

O’Connor has positioned himself as a moderate Democrat, pledging that if elected he would not vote for Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House. Recent polling has the race in a statistical tie.

If the O’Connor wins, or if Balderson wins narrowly, the media narrative will be that Trump is no king-maker and he can’t save the Republican Party from an oncoming blue wave in November.

[Pollster1]

Balderson +700 voted w 95% of precincts counted. It’s flipped back and forth several times.

[RedMonqey]

(Crossed fingers)

[Pollster1]

Either way, the news will be anti-Trump, of course. Either Troy lost a GOP district that we won by 11% in 2016, or Troy won by less than 1% in that district. No matter what, on the #FakeNews, it will be Trump’s fault.

[HonorInPa]

If he wins by even one vote, they can spin all they want. It is still an R seat and vote. And a D loss.

[jimfree]

Balderson 741 up with 95 percent reporting.

[RedMonqey]

According to the NY times site, all the remaining likely GOP votes are coming from DelaWARE cOUNTY...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/07/us/elections/results-ohio-special-house-election-district-12.html

Watch for fraud from Franklin County(still has votes out)

[RedMonqey]

This is true.

However a (R) win is still a win for the (R)books.

Let CNN and MSNBC suck on that big one....

[jimfree]

They indeed can spin all they want. A law professor, referring to the cut score for a bar exam, once told me “65 percent is an A-plus.” Balderson up a fraction of one percent is an A-plus.

[tinyowl]

Sec State @ 10:10 pm Eastern Time

[FreedomNotSafety]

R

Drudge called it.

[tinyowl]

Sweetness!

[FreedomNotSafety]

Govenor Rhodes would be proud. Lose the city but offset it in the country side

[RedMonqey]

Franklin County has reported all her votes and Balderson is winning with Delaware County STILL has precints to report.

[Pollster1]

7 precincts remaining, about 3,300 votes if these are the same size as the others. Troy leads by 1,700 votes. That’s still within the margin of fraud, but only barely.

[RedMonqey]

The Dims and the NITworks can have their “moral victory”

I’ll “settle” for a real win anytime!

Still “no way tired” of “winning”

[RedMonqey]

RESULTS TOO SLOW COMING IN FROM FRANKLIN. Stuffing the boxes

Franklin can't help them now...

Well, and not to be sooooo oblivious...

(Winning!)

[RedMonqey]

Not good.
CNN will have a collective orgasm live on TV tonight

CNN anchors better have their batteries charged for their vibrators cuz their candidate (just narrowly) lost.

(Winning!)

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Balderson was fighting not only democrats but one of the worst RINOs ever, the governor Kasich.

[far sider]

Glad FR is here.

[flaglady47]

“Balderson was fighting not only democrats but one of the worst RINOs ever, the governor Kasich.”

Bingo. Kasich sucks bigtime. Balderson is the winner by the hair of his chinny chin chin. As to O’Connor, “almost” only counts in horseshoes.