Johnson was a much better candidate, and I anticipate will be a stronger Congressman.
If the two are paired in one district (not sure if that is likely) Gibbs could win a primary, but I'd back Johnson for sure.
It's only somewhat likely, as the two districts are contiguous and neither is growing. Johnson's biggest problem is geographic he's at the most northern point of those districts.
I figure they'll take the 3 Cleveland are districts (Kucinich, Fudge, and Sutton) and consolidate them down to two in which case Sutton would be the odd woman out. As to the other consolidation in redistricting.
Johnson is the kind of citizen legislator the Tea Party crowd and independents support. Ditto with Cravaack. People are sick of the slick packaged-talking out of both sides of their mouths political hacks and they just want people who are real and who tell it like it is.
We got a lot of those type of people this time around. Hopefully they won’t be corrupted by the D.C. water and will stay real.
The Democrat faithful still haven’t caught on to this. They’re still voting for the lifetime career hacks who sell out their principles (if they ever had any to begin with) when they get inside the beltway.