Five reasons why Ohio's 12th Congressional District race hasn't caught fire nationally

cleveland.com ^ | July 18, 2018 | Jeremy Pelter

[napscoordinator]

COLUMBUS, Ohio--This summer, the eyes of the political world were supposed to be focused on the special-election battle for the 12th Congressional District in Central Ohio.

The election is scheduled for Aug. 7, a time when little else is on the national political calendar. And how Democrat Danny O'Connor does in the Republican-leaning district was supposed to give an indication of how his party will fare in the November midterms.

[xzins]

It’s a pretty strong repub district that wiki says is historically R+7

The republican is winning, so the dems’ best bet is to downplay and hope for a low turnout surprise victory

[LS]

I didn’t see this when I posted my thread on GOP fundraising, where I showed that there are now 5 house seats that were considered “gettable” all trending R. This would make six.

[napscoordinator]

That is awesome!!! Blue wave turns into a desert.

[mabarker1]

That’s because no commierat has poured gasoline on it, YET.

[BRL]

I live in this District. It should be Republican + 25 District but it is loaded with well-to-do soccer moms who have their head up their butts

[discostu]

Because when push comes to shove it’s a LOCAL election and by and large Americans can barely give a crap about their own local elections forget anybody else’s. Yeah sure sometimes the “news” networks get obsessed but Americans mostly don’t care.

[Stanwood_Dave]

"... but it is loaded with well-to-do soccer moms who have their head up their butts."

You should try getting a letter past the local fish-wrapper editors, and talk / write about the benefits of a "glass-ectomy."

Something along the lines:

Yes, it's obvious, even to the most casual observer, you (the women with their heads up their collective butts) are infected with Cranium Rectal Disorder, and in need of a Glass-ectomy.

A glass-ectomy is when you cut your bellybutton out and put a piece of glass in there so when you have your head up your a$$, you can see where you’re going.

Just a thought or two.

[BRL]

I was thinking more along the lines of getting them to connect the dots regarding their relative prosperity. Then it comes from a society that honors the very things that they are voting against

[Right Wing Assault]

it is loaded with well-to-do soccer moms who have their head up their butts

While their heads are up their butts, I hope the see the illegal alien crap invading every state. They need to be reminded.

[SunkenCiv]

There's a high rate of Demwit absentee ballot requests, it sez elsewhere -- which is interesting, I didn't know one had to request absentee ballots by party. Thanks napscoordinator.

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[BRL]

These special elections are much more favorable to the democrats. Most people do not even know about them, but the democrat machine is totally plugged into them. I wish we had a amendment to our state constitution that no levies can be voted on outside of the two year election cycle.

[xzins]

What exactly is the point of a special election 3 months before a general election? Does the new rep run again in 3 mos? If so that’s a serious waste of money