Wednesday, November 09, 2011

We killed the bill, now what?

By On November 9, 2011 ·
Here’s what the Issue 2 map looks like:
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[Update:] Final numbers from the Ohio Secretary of State’s office shows that 46% of registered voters cast a ballot last night. In comparison, 49% cast a vote in 2010 election. Last night was the highest turnout for an off-year election in at least 20 years in Ohio. Turnout was higher than expected, but so much for the idea that the polls oversampled Democrats.

The most southern “green county” is Shannon Jones’ Warren County. Warren-Butler-Clermont Counties is the belt of > 60% GOP performance counties that the GOP regularly uses to neutralize Cuyahoga County’s heavy Democratic performance. Last night, John Kasich’s Issue 2 did carry one of these, but with less than 52% of the vote. Issue 2 only won Warren County with roughly 2,200 votes. Once again, that’s Shannon Jones’ home county. Her husband was on the ballot in a township trustee race. He lost. The husband of the Senate Majority Whip lost an election in the deep red Warren County where Issue 2 barely passed.

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