Posted on 08/02/2005 6:53:19 AM PDT by watsonfellow
HAckett shouldnt be winning rural areas
Hey she'll go from being a Bob Taft rubberstamp to a Tom Delay rubberstamp...that's a hugh step up.
In the second place, Hillary hates the military and everyone knows it, so she can't play Iraq veteran.
In the third place, she's got a lot of baggage (in more ways than one ;), so she'll have a HUGE negative voter turnout.
We get a strong candidate, and she doesn't have a prayer...........even though she needs to.
This is really close. Hackett is up in Hamilton County and may actually win in the county. Adams Brown and Scioto don't count. Schmidt will win Warren and Clermont. Wow! Who would have guessed.
hopefully..
i am worried about the OH senate seat and Gov in 2006
We have protest voting going on as people are angered by RINO's raising taxes.
Let's not forget that joker Taft, and the scandals by the RINO establishment there.
He's getting the Iraq veteran credit in the rural counties. These people don't get anything but the ads they see on TV
Protest voting by voting DEM or wroting in other GOPers?
Brinkman sounds pretty good but I didnt like his BOYCOTT the election appeal
Some statistics from 2004 House races:
Sky-high incumbency rates. Only five incumbents lost to challengers in 2004 -- the second lowest in our nation’s history. Nearly nine in ten incumbents were re-elected by “landslide” margins of at least 20 percent.
Landslides. In 14 states, every race was won by a landslide margin of at least 20 percent in 2004. Only four states (all with less than three seats) recorded no landslide wins.
High victory margins. The average victory margin was a whopping 40 percent. Seven of every eight (83%) U.S. House races were won by landslide margins of at least 20 percent in 2004. Only 23 races (5%) were won by competitive margins of less than 10 percent.
The 'Rats do a pretty good job of getting big name candidates in these special elections. We did indeed lose a special house election in Kentucky prior to the 2004 general election. The 'Rats recruited a former statewide office holder with high name recognition. He ran as a conservative and won the previously Republican seat. Likewise, in South Dakota the 'Rats nominated Stephanie Herseth, the daughter of a former governor and a well known personality, to run for a vacated GOP seat. She won, and like in Kentucky she ran as a conservative.
These things happen. Everyone at the time was predicting those special election losses in KY and SD were harbingers of GOP doom in 2004. They weren't.
In tonight's race, it sounds as if the 'Rats have recruited an Iraq war veteran who sounds conservative and claims to be pro-Bush. Maybe that'll enable him to cheat his way to victory. Maybe it won't. Either way, it's not as big a deal as some would make it out to be.
The nervous nellie's need to take a chill pill! :-)
Blackwell is going to win the governorship in Ohio in 2006 so stop worrying.
I support Blackwell
I don't know much about Schmidt but she looks like a really bad candidate. I keep hearing she was implicated in an ethics scandal. Plus she looks kind of ugly in the photos i've seen of her. Major mistake by Ohio Republicans. Everyone knows that running a woman against a military vet is troublesome. Why not just run some guy?
He wouldn't buy a losing network unless he can get it at a great discount.
He would start a new one of his own.
CABLE EIB
I would rather my candidates be more than a rubber stamp for anybody and have principles of their own to guide them when they represent me.
Schmidt doesn't...
Not that I have seen anyway.
She'll win..never, NEVER underestimate someone who has run 25 marathons...and equally important..DeWine didn't win..
I agree with your points. I just wanted to add another example to buttress the idea that the special elections could predict the congressional elections to come, which, in 2004, they did not.
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