Anyone hear anything on the provisional count re: Vic Wulsin

[truth2power]

v. Mean Jean? :shrug:

[cmd]

1. Apparently they are still counting

Strange to find a story about it in the Kansas City news, but here it is. It looks like the votes won't be final until next week.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/elections/16061794.htm

[BillORightsMan]

2. I t was on NPR - WCPN

I just heard on WCPN 90.3 fm top-of-the-hour news that Mean Jean held on to the 3000+ lead after the provisionals and absentee ballots were counted :puke:

No word yet on the Kilroy-Pryce contest...

:patriot:

[MeDeMax]

3. the unofficial results are in, meanjean leads by 3,200 ...

From WDTN - Dayton Local TV

Schmidt Wins Seat After Two Week Vote Count
Dated: 11/21/2006 5:33:07 PM


Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt, known for calling a Democratic lawmaker a coward,
clinched re-election Tuesday when additional ballot counts were released two
weeks after the election.

Results from heavily Republican Warren County in southwest Ohio's 2nd District
added to Schmidt's lead, giving her an insurmountable edge of about 3,200 votes
over Democratic challenger Victoria Wulsin.

Schmidt had 51 percent of the vote compared with 49 percent for Wulsin,
according to unofficial results.
...

http://www.wdtn.com/dsp_story.cfm?storyid=65831&RequestTimeout=500

[BillORightsMan]

4. Warren County? Again?

Paul Hackett came within a hair of winning OH-2 in 2005, not to mention the false-flag terror lockdown of the Warren County BoE in 2004. Not surprising then that Warren County provided Schimdt's winning margin. Or maybe not. Those DU'rs in OH-2, there is a kind of hope:

from Rolling Stone:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: OHIO BURNING
In one of the country's staunchest Republican districts, conservative voters are beginning to question their own party's disastrous policies

by MATT TAIBBI

There's a faint whiff of trouble in this remade Republican paradise, a kind of weird tension percolating below the surface. A former farmer complains that his once-quaint town now looks like Disneyland in the new sections. A plumber nursing a beer at a sports bar at lunchtime goes off about "all those soccer Mom bitches." A churchgoer confesses displeasure at his congregation's demand that an American flag be posted behind the pulpit ("That's a big no-no to me -- those things should be separate"). And when talking about politics, local conservatives complain about the rancor, the divisiveness, the partisan bitching, the negative campaigning, the shallowness of politics today.

This is why the geography of towns like Mason suggests a possible future fissure within the Republican Party. What began as grumbling between residents of different parts of town has become a tangible ballot phenomenon, as a growing number of traditional fiscal conservatives are breaking politically with the hard-core, extreme social conservatism of the new Bush-era evangelical Republicans across town.

~snip~
Now the party itself is being perceived as a troublemaking, cynical carpetbagger by some of its own voters. And it's not only moderates like Davis and Saxbe who feel that way. In the case of Ohio's 2nd, even some hard right-wingers have begun to perceive the implied insult of their situation: You have to really not give the slightest fuck about what people think to offer Jean Schmidt as a candidate.

"She's a puppet for the national party," says Nate Noy, who is running against Schmidt as a right-leaning write-in candidate. "The Constitution says you're supposed to represent your district, not your party. But she represents the party all the way, and she's forgotten about the district."

much more at link...

I hope Vic Wulsin runs again. OH-2 is right on the edge and it will take only a few inane, outrageous speeches in the Democratic-controlled by attack-dog Schmidt to tip the balance. Schmidt won the GOP primary by only 5% over Bob McEwen, so look for a GOP Challenge again in 2008.

:patriot: