Shockers of the election?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Something I noticed is that the Republicans were, generally, better at holding affluent suburban districts (or mixed districts with an affluent suburban presence) than other sorts of seat.

The suburbs always ruin everything.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Wulsin nearly took down Schmidt, but just missed out.

The Cincinnati suburbs are ruled by a bunch of right-wing thugs. They wouldn't know an honest election if it bit them in the face.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I guess that the Dems only won 1 seat in Ohio. Central and Western Ohio must be ridiculously gerrymandered. For me the biggest disappointment of the election was that jean schmidt didn't lose her seat.

But just think: We get to be entertained by her crazy behavior for another 2 years.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

All of Gutknecht's fighting to stay on the ballot after he refused to follow the proper procedures didn't help him any, did it?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

It could hardly have happened to a more deserving congressperson.

I think I still have the screencap from 2002 that shows CNN calling the election for Bonilla despite the fact that he was losing in the vote totals.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Presumably the heavily Democratic areas had already reported and few if any of the heavily Republican ones had. It might seem illogical at a glance but it happens, and I've seen Dems declared winners who are behind in the votes that have been reported so far as well (if say the heavily urban areas haven't reported yet).

I've never ever ever seen this happen with a Democrat ever. However, in the 1988 presidential election, Illinois was called for Dukakis, only to be taken back later when DuPage County "found" a whole bunch of votes for Pa Bush.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I think some of the other suburban counties contributed to that though.