Polls Are Open For Special Election (OH)

[sabra]

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http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/08/02/race.html

Polls Are Open For Special Election

Republican Jean Schmidt was first in line when the polls opened Tuesday and expressed confidence in her battle with Democrat Paul Hackett over a southwest Ohio congressional seat.

Schmidt voted at a school in her Clermont County precinct. "We're going to be in first place at 7:30 this evening," she predicted. Schmidt was joined at the poll by a dozen supporters. Hackett planned to vote later Tuesday morning in the Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill.

Schmidt and Hackett are seeking to replace Rep. Rob Portman, whose 2nd District seat opened when President Bush appointed him U.S. trade representative.

Schmidt campaigned overnight, hitting all-night Waffle House restaurants, while Hackett planned to work area Starbucks locations this morning.

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[BrightKnight]

1. The story favors the rubber stamp -- n/t

[meganmonkey]

2. That's pretty funny - she goes to Waffle House and he goes

to Starbucks.

I don't know why, that made me giggle.

[sabra]

3. same here :-)

maybe because my dad would always call it the awful house...

[TahitiNut]

4. She's going after the avoirdupois wing ...

... while he's soliciting the alert.

[wakeme2008]

5. Glad Apple's Tiger come with a dictionary :)

Dictionary
avoirdupois |ˌävərdəˈpoiz| noun a system of weights based on a pound of 16 ounces or 7,000 grains, widely used in English-speaking countries : avoirdupois weights | < postpositive > a pound avoirdupois. Compare with troy . • humorous weight; heaviness : she was putting on the avoirdupois like nobody's business.

ORIGIN Middle English (denoting merchandise sold by weight): from Old French aveir de peis ‘goods of weight,’ from aveir ‘to have’ (infinitive used as a noun, from Latin habere) + peis ‘weight’ (see poise 1 ).

[TahitiNut]

10. Yep. I'm an advocate of the "lean and hungry" look.

We'd be one helluva lot better off if the steps of the Senate were stained by the blood of an American C-czar every once in a while.


On edit: My excess avoirdupois might seem to belie my stance - but you can't judge a book by its cover or a person by his fleshy accoutrements.

[kypper]

7. I'm so sick and tired

...of the ignorant deciding for the rest of the country.
If you don't care to be informed, don't vote and let the rest of us decide for you. Politicians shouldn't have to pander to the lowest common denominator to get elected.

Chasing the waffle-houses will do a ton for her - they haven't payed a lick of attention. His Starbucks wing are already voting and know who they're voting for.

[K8-EEE]

6. Starbucks Are Big Dem Contributors!

My husband hates them cuz they make it hard for indie coffee houses but I say: they have their good points (supporting fair trade/shade grown coffee, for one!)

It's the most sought after job for college students, since they have health ins. for part time workers. So many college kids don't have ins. from their parents and fall through the cracks after they're 18.

[TahitiNut]

8. Well, they really don't "make it hard for indie coffee houses"

Quite the opposite. All over the Pacific Northwest (the home of Starbucks AND Seattle's Best) you'll find indie coffeehouses and drive-throughs - to an extent unknown before Starbucks nurtured the market. Living there for 5 years, I never went through a small town where I couldn't find an indie "designer coffee" drive-through and at least one sit-down caffeine pusher.

[K8-EEE]

11. Well He Feels That Way Cuz His Fave Place

Eagles coffee in No Hollywood did bang-up biz until the Starbucks opened up across the street -- it closed them within a year.

The big advantage Starbucks had (Eagles had better coffe IMO) was swanky plush furnishings and a big staff. You had to wait twice as long at Eagles because it was only the owner and one employee most of the time.

[AndyTiedye]

12. Starbucks Demands a No-Competition Clause of the Landlord

When Starbucks came in across the street from our office, they got
the landlord to terminate the lease for the existing coffee house in
the same shopping center, and to prevent any new ones from leasing there.
The space where the old coffee house was has been empty ever since.

[CAcyclist]

17. Not True

Starbucks waits until the indie coffeehouses are established and *then* comes in to saturate the area with their chain stores. I've seen it happen over and over in California and I've lived in a lot of different places in CA.

They might have a different, less predatory modus operandi in more rural places like Ohio - but they definitely drive our local coffeeshops out of business - in Fresno, Davis, and San Mateo.

[tomg]

9. Wow. So that is what American politics

comes down to. Waffle House vs. Starbucks. The image of it is too hilarious. Maybe we should just have flat out corporate sponsorship:
"This Congressman Brought to you by the Good People at Home Depot."
With that said, I hope Hackett kicks.

[deadparrot]

13. Keeping my fingers crossed for you, Mr. Hackett...

and for all you DU residents of the OH-2.

[Bumblebee]

14. Schmidt campaigned overnight, hitting all-night

Best indication that I have seen so far that she is really nervous. Waffle House versus Starbucks is obviously the stereotype the media loves to hype. Dean's supporters were often described that way too. Replaced Birkenstocks.

[goodboy]

15. If he wins, it'll send shudders through the GOP. Maybe it's a sign of

things to come? Say, in 2006?

God, I hope so.

[Sean Reynolds]

16. Any poll numbers?