DeWine, Whaley win governor primaries, AP calls

[OilemFirchen]

Source: dayton.com

Gov. Mike DeWine has won the Republican primary to remain governor of Ohio, and former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley will be the Democratic nominee, the Associated Press announced less than two hours after polls closed.
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Ohio Democratic Chair Elizabeth Walters lauded Whaley.

“Nan Whaley is the leader Ohio deserves with a proven track record of leading Ohio through its toughest times and helping our state come out stronger on the other side,” she said. “Tonight, she makes history as the first woman to secure the gubernatorial nomination of a major political party in Ohio, cementing a strong and diverse ticket of candidates ready to show Ohio voters we’re on their side ... Mayor Whaley is the candidate Ohio needs to create jobs, clean up corruption and put Ohio back on the right track,” said Walters.
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Whaley served two four-year terms as a Dayton city commissioner before being elected mayor in 2013 and reelected in 2017. She was president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors during her last year as Dayton’s mayor. She planned to run for governor in 2018 but dropped out and endorsed Richard Cordray, the eventual Democratic nominee.

Read more: https://www.dayton.com/local/whaley-dewine-lead-governor-primary-in-early-results/4U73ZDEPHZBK5K6GDK7GVFBLUY/

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FTR, Nan Whaley is 46 years old. Mike DeWine has been in office for 46 years.

[peppertree]

1. Kudos to Nan Whaley - although I doubt deWhine will resist the temptation to cheat

It was Ohio's Ken Black-box, after all, who showed Republicans what a bunch of Sequoia voting machines can do - and this has long since become the GOP's unofficial re-election strategy.

[OilemFirchen]

3. No doubt it'll be an uphill climb for Mayor Whaley, even without cheating.

I'm hoping she still has some of the shine she earned following the mass shooting in Dayton, when she was the nation's mayor for a day. The event certainly didn't help DeWine:

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4. Sad but true

To think Ohio lost the iconic Lordstown GM plant under Needy Amin's watch - and yet the GOP's numbers barely budged.

I was once told that small-town Ohioans (largely white) resent big city Ohioans (especially black ones) with a passion, and that the GOP's smart move was to channel that resentment back in the Gingrich era.

Since then, they vote Repug as an almost-Pavlovian reflex.

[OilemFirchen]

5. Quite a few urban white voters, as well.

The boom in automotive manufacturing jobs brought a ton of workers up from Appalachia - proud UAW and proud Democrats - and, when those jobs disappeared, the workers were left behind. Their resentment has been festering for decades.

Still, we voted for Obama and Sherrod Brown twice. Go figure.

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7. I hear you.

The thing is, polls usually have these big Ohio races as head-to-heads right up until the end (including exit polls) - and then, when results come in, Repugs always open up an 8-point or so advantage.

Those optical-scan and touch-screen machines certainly show the GOP plenty of love on election night (and not just in Ohio, of course).

[FarPoint]

8. Nan was our Dayton Mayor....

Known her since the late 90's.....got my vote.

[brooklynite]

9. I know the current and former ODP Chairs...they don't claim voting machines were rigged...

...but what do they know?

[elleng]

2. Happy to see her!

[OilemFirchen]

6. Me too!

[turbinetree]

10. Privacy lets ask Mike Dewine what he thinks of that ..........

Nan Whaley can win this race....


https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/politics/dewine-signs-abortion-bill-ohio/index.html

[Wuddles440]

11. She needs to pound DeWhiney...

with all the corruption and scandals that he's been associated with during his tenure - HB6 bailout and bribery scheme, PUC (Sam Randazzo's selection and bribes), ECOT fraud, and on and on. She also needs to highlight how Ohio, under GQP leadership, continues to have exceedingly high infant morality rates, a tax system that disproportionately benefits corporations and businesses while penalizing wage earners and retirees, median income that continues to fall below the national average, overall life expectancy that continues to decline and is one of the lowest in the nation, etc. She's facing a GQP machine that really has dominated the state for decades, but he's vulnerable to such attacks and can be defeated if she's able to craft effective messaging and deliver it.

[OilemFirchen]

12. She spoke to a lot of that during her acceptance speech.

The corruption is DeWine's Achilles Heel and fresh in voters' minds. I think she's going to go full-tilt boogie on that, as well as Ohio's decimation during his 46 years in office. And I have not doubt her running mate Cheryl Stephens will mince no words.

Gonna do everything I can to boost her chances.