Ohio 2012 Congressional Races

[jimrtex]

Kucinich up 12225-11909 right now. Almost all of Kucinich's votes are from Cuyahoga County and almost all of Kaptur's are from everywhere else. If this keeps up, Kucinich will lose since less than half the district is in Cuyahoga County.

Turnout might be different.

Lucas:

Kaptur 94.2%
Kucinich 3.7%
Veysey 2.1%

Ottawa:

Kaptur 81.6%
Veysey 10.5%
Kucinich 7.9%

Huron:

Kaptur 73.3%
Kucinich 18.4%
Veysey 8.3%

Lorain:

Kaptur 49.6%
Kucinich 45.6%
Veysey 4.9%

Cuyahoga County:

Kucinich 72.5%
Kaptur 24.3%
Veysey 3.2%

[jimrtex]

In her close GE races, of course, it was the rural parts that split tickets to a dangerous degree and these very voters that saved her. I guess that may be a name rec issue of Wenstrup's.

Yes, it is ironic, but the voters in question are more partisan (rural voters most places are more swingy), so while they don't like Schmidt, they would like a Dem replacement less.

There is a SuperPac going after incumbents in primaries.  They went 1 for 2 in Ohio, defeating Schmidt, but not Kaptur.

[jimrtex]

In her close GE races, of course, it was the rural parts that split tickets to a dangerous degree and these very voters that saved her. I guess that may be a name rec issue of Wenstrup's.

Yes, it is ironic, but the voters in question are more partisan (rural voters most places are more swingy), so while they don't like Schmidt, they would like a Dem replacement less.

There is a SuperPac going after incumbents in primaries.  They went 1 for 2 in Ohio, defeating Schmidt, but not Kaptur.

Unless they were supporting one of the also-rans in that primary (I think there were two)...

Supposedly they were supporting Kucinich.  8-termer over the 15-termer.