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In reply to the discussion: Jean Schmidt Loses House Seat In Major GOP Primary Upset [View all]rexcat
(3,622 posts)63. I was in the Ohio 2nd Congressional District until this past year...
and was gerrymandered into the 1st Congressional District. Because of the remapping of the districts in Ohio by the republicans, Brad Wenstrup will be the next congresscritter for the district. All they are doing is trading one asshole for bigger asshole.
Previously the Democrats who ran against Schmidt had a chance because even some republicans did not like her enough not to vote for her. This will change everything. No Democrat running for congresscritter will have a chance in a general election in this district from now on.
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That was in a very Democratic year after just being elected in a special election.
FBaggins
Mar 2012
#51
That was the breaking point year, though. Everybody was tired of the Republicans.
Selatius
Mar 2012
#65
Republicans in Ohio's second district were already in the clutches of the teabaggers.
Lasher
Mar 2012
#16
Not to be snide, but the joke used to be that within a thirty-mile radius of Cincinnati
Ikonoklast
Mar 2012
#57
Love it!: "No one is too right-wing to lose a primary to someone still further to the right."
pampango
Mar 2012
#24
I’m Brad Wenstrup, and I couldn't get a Super PAC to deliver this attack ad for me
Kolesar
Mar 2012
#27
Might one of them possibly be the asshole who denied the Holocaust recently, btw?
AverageJoe90
Mar 2012
#47