LS said he was hearing that Republicans didn’t even know there was an election. Kasuck’s groups must’ve been sitting on their hands
Come on folks. We have to help Trump. Get out the vote
I have long held that trying to win elections by moving to the middle is the wrong strategy. The GOP wins elections when their base is motivated to turn out and vote for candidates that advance the conservative values.
These candidates all suck. If the Dems couldn’t bear a non incumbent with that kind of turnout difference they would be wise to spend their money elsewhere in November. It’s clear to everyone that these people aren’t really of the Trump standard. The support they are getting is only because of Trump. By themselves it’s clear they don’t really want the Trump agenda. The Repukes in Congress are just politicians. Plain and simple. How much effort will people put in for a standard politician who is going to try and create trouble for Trump once in DC?
I don’t understand how you can be a Republican and not vote in EVERY election. The thought of the democrats in charge and Nancy Pelosi holding that huge gavel motives me. I would crawl over broken glass for 10 miles to vote to stop her.
If I’m a Democrat I’m saying we had 87% turnout verses 40% for Republicans and still lost.
Ohio Secretary of state says no winner yet. Provisional and absentees have to be counted. August 18?
Even if the paper ballots swing this to the Democrat and Wrong Way Larry Sabato who predicted Clinton would win with 322 ECvs, makes this a toss up which he will, it means nothing. In November the Republican in that race, lets hope it’s not the lackluster Balderson. If the Democrats think they are getting 87% of their voters out based on hatred of Trump they are dumber than they look.
Overall, turnout was well below expectations: many were expecting 227,000 instead of 200,000.
not good.
What percent of that 87 percent are dead guys?
GOTV people!!!
We won’t get another chance.
I put the problem on the RNC. Poor, poor, effort to GOTV. I put this square on Ronna Romney, who raises money but her ground game effort stink. It will come back to bite us. We need a more talented chair.
A stunning turnout difference: our little Republican voters are just too uninformed to bring consistent victory.
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“It’s really kind of shocking, because this should be just a slam dunk, and it’s not,”
Ohio Gov. John Kasich told ABC’s This Week on Sunday.
Balderson leads Democrat Danny O’Connor by 1,754 votes. That’s a lead of 0.9 percentage
points. There are, however, some 8,500 provisional and absentee ballots still to be counted.
If the gap were to shrink to within 0.5 percentage points, that would trigger an automatic
recount. O’Connor would need about 55 percent of the outstanding provisional and absentee
ballots to get within that margin. He would need a little over 60 percent to take the lead.
The state has 10 days before those remaining ballots can be counted, according to the Ohio
secretary of state’s office.
No one ever mentions independents who make up about a quarter to a third of the electorate.
It doesn’t concern party leaders, because party leaders wanted to lose yesterday.
Period.
That they didn’t lose was all Trump.
Damn, Treehouse... you screwed the pooch. The headline is about turnout; the details are about vote choice. We don’t need any analysis to see that O’Connor did better than Tiberi’s underfunded sacrificial-lamb of an opponent. From the headline, I thought the news was about the Democrats turning out their voters better. Nothing of the sort. From the data presented, we have no idea whether the result was from turnout or vote flipping.
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Damn... I meant Pundit. OK, I screwed the pooch, too. Treehouse may be incredibly opinionated, but they do research well, and say what they mean. This is an embarrassment to Pundit.