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Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject: Ohio Election: Both Parties Concerned Over Turnout |
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer, which has endorsed Jean Schmidt ...and the Cincinnati Post, which has endorsed Paul Hackett ...keep an eye on this one...Democrats are hopeful a victory here will presage a successful '06 season....
Quote: | Big guns roll out for vote Tuesday
Glenn, Bush try to rouse interest
By Howard Wilkinson
Enquirer staff writer
Sunday, July 31, 2005
If it takes a famous astronaut to knock on the door or the president of the United States to call on the phone to remind people to vote Tuesday, the stakes in that election must be high.
Or perhaps it just means supporters of both candidates in the 2nd Congressional District - Republican Jean Schmidt and Democrat Paul Hackett - are scared to death that people in the seven-county southern Ohio district might forget there is an election Tuesday.
Cincinnati Enquirer - cont'd |
Quote: | Candidates in final sprint
By Joshua Rinaldi
Post staff reporter
Publication date: 08-01-2005
With only hours remaining before the polls open for the special election to fill the vacant 2nd District congressional seat, the candidates - Republican Jean Schmidt and Democrat Paul Hackett - are scrambling to make sure the party faithful make it to the polls.
In a special election in August, with nothing else on the ballot, whoever does the best job getting core constituencies to the polls will emerge victorious because swing voters won't go to the polls, said Alfred Tuchfarber, a professor of American government and elections at the University of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Post - cont'd |
In a related note, there's an ugly smear campaign afoot against a Schmidt staffer that's getting traction and attention in the leftist blogworld (to include none other than KOS and "you-know-who"). If this allegation is unfounded (in fact the result of some "dirty trick" department), some folks, IMHO, are gonna find themselves on the wrong end of a libel suit. |
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