Mean Jean Schmit was losing GOP primary in Ohio

[gasperc]

Whoops, things changing fast, thought 100% was reporting
It looks like OH-02 will remain safe for the GOP if she loses, Schmidt was losing 43% to 47% at 10:50pm, with Hamilton coming in the results have turned in her favor 47%/43%

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/results/DistrictDetail.aspx?race=CO&party=R

[MercutioATC]

1. Doesn't that page show her WINNING 47/43???

[David in Canada]

14. Clermont County

Her home base of Clermont County chimed in with a landslide win there.

Only Hamilton County is in play now and it looks like she's a slight favourite there. I'd say she wins..

[Awsi Dooger]

19. Check out this info regarding Clermont County

Schmidt partisans in charge of the vote count:

http://blog.oh02.com/2006/05/02/clermont-election-problems-make-the-enquirer/#comments

[zulchzulu]

2. Whoops...

It looks like she won...

[dsc]

3. Two things

One the results don't appear to be final and they appear to say the exact opposite of what you are saying they say.

[gasperc]

5. just caught that

[AX10]

4. According to the site, she won:

District 2
Schmidt, Jean 19,267 47.27%
McEwen, Bob 17,469 42.86%
Kraus, Deborah A. 2,545 6.24%
Constable, James E. 1,476 3.62%
Total Votes 40,757

[saltpoint]

6. Are the local stations projecting a winner in OH-06?

It looks too close to call ... ?

[liberal43110]

7. It's a Repub Primary

Yeesh. Gimme a break--your post was 0% right on anything.

[Drum]

9. lol!

[gasperc]

8. Hamilton is only 50% in and changing the results

when I looked at the results 10minutes ago she was losing. She needs a strong showing to win. However, she might not even get a majority of the republican vote, quite stunning. Will likely kill her fundraising ability

[Zen Democrat]

10. Won't there be a run-off?

[Gman]

11. Looks like she's in a runoff

[NI4NI]

15. Looks like she's been run over

and then backed up on and run over again. What kind of person votes for her?

[IndianaGreen]

18. Who would vote for her? Nazis and deranged people

and people that haven't gotten laid in decades.

[saltpoint]

20. You've nailed her constituency exactly! LOL!

[cboy4]

32. I'll get you NI4NI, my little pretty!

[Bill McBlueState]

12. yes, we want her to win

Bob McEwen can at least act like a moderate when he has to, which would make him a tougher opponent in the general.

Who's her opponent going to be?

[recoveringdittohed]

16. Victoria Wulsin leading in Democratic Primary

Wulsin 1,900 votes ahead with part of Clermont & Hamilton County not in yet per SOS website.

[Awsi Dooger]

21. Here's that link

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/results/DistrictDetail.aspx?race=CO&party=D

[IndianaGreen]

13. Raw totals have her at 46% v. McEwen at 43%

Schmidt, Jean 23,855 46.91%
McEwen, Bob 22,023 43.30%

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/results/DistrictDetail.aspx?race=CO&party=R

[Awsi Dooger]

17. Paul Hackett showed up to watch the proceedings

I saw that on an Ohio 2nd district blog a couple of hours ago.

Scroll to bottom: http://blog.oh02.com/

[woldnewton]

28. We *NEED* Hackett!

We've got to convince him to run a write-in bid and ask Victoria to step aside. Hackett is the only one that can win this.

[Awsi Dooger]

29. You're probably right

Regarding the bottom line.

But Hackett isn't exactly in a position to do that, after being forced out of the senate run and then doing similar to Wulsin.

[woldnewton]

30. I must not be in the loop about the last thing you said...

What did Hackett 'do', exactly, to Wulsin?

[Awsi Dooger]

31. Hackett was basically asked to abandon the senate race in favor of Brown

There was uproar on DU and elsewhere when that happened. Sherrod Brown initially said he wouldn't run for senate so Hackett was going to be our nominee. Then Brown changed his mind and the party insiders forced Hackett out.

In this case, you want Hackett to forge a write-in campaign and bump out Wulsin. That would more or less be the same scenario in reverse, since Hackett decided not to run for this House seat initially but would be changing his mind and bullying someone else who played the game correctly from the outset.

Still, I agree Hackett would be a near-certain winner while Wulsin is most likely going to lose.

[Freedom_Aflaim]

22. No Schmit? Thats awesome.

I must say that I crack myself up :)

[saltpoint]

23. McEwen ran a very strong race but Schmidt has defeated him.

Link:

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

[Freedom_Aflaim]

24. sigh

Thanks for update.

[saltpoint]

25. There's silver lining. Schmidt will be much easier to defeat in November.

If there is a strong national blue tide, Schmidt goes down.

[Freedom_Aflaim]

26. This is true. She is a much better target

A national target noless.

Truth be told, I really know nothing of her opponent in this primary. She is just the devil that I know.

[Awsi Dooger]

27. Wulsin is much more liberal than Hackett

So we'll need a high tide. Her politics don't fit the district nearly as well as Hackett's. I just looked it up and Hackett defeated Wulsin more than 2/1 in last year's primary -- 57% to 27%.

Of course, Schmidt is much weaker than she was at the time of the special election last year.