As expected.
Great news that the compromised lunatic a-hole Kucinich has been kicked back to the trash heap where he belongs. Maybe Trump will hire him as his court jester.
No chance he might launch a third party attempt? Not that I want one, but could he?
Thank goodness Richard Cordray won. My supply of patience for political inanity is drained empty.
Who knows — with GOP/pro-Russia backing, the colossal dickhead Kucinich might indeed try to torpedo the Dems. I sincerely hope not, but nothing would surprise me from this a-holle fauxgressive.
Not exactly gracious in victory are we. How childish.
Gracious? To a Trump supporter and Obama basher like Kucinich? People like Kucinich are why we even have Trump. He can go fuck himself.
I am delighted that Kucinich lost and while we’re at it that Bernie lost.
Cordray is a stand up guy. Really thoughtful and honorable. And a jeopardy champ! I think he might have cross-over appeal.
I’m no fan of Sanders, but he had the sense to not endorse Kucinich. I guess to some on the white left, Elizabeth Warren endorsing Cordray makes her a sell-out, though.
Kucinich is enough of an asshole so it couldn’t be more deserved.
Gracious to whom and to what? A Fox News contributor who has spent the last two years fellating Assad, apologizing for PP, and denying any possible Russian collusion? Wasn’t aware we needed to be gracious to traitors.
Prrrrrrrrreach!
At the moment it is most enjoyable to see the current margin of Cordray burying Kucinich, 62% - 23%, although only 24% reporting, but still pretty satisfying. A couple weeks ago some Kucinich apologist posted here at TPM claiming Kucinic was a “shoe-in.” Uh-huh.
“However, putting a damper on hopes for a so-called “blue wave” this November in a state that backed Trump in 2016, many more Republican voters participated in the gubernatorial primary than Democratic voters. With about half of voting precincts counted as of 9:30 p.m., nearly 150,000 more GOP voters had cast a ballot.”
What to make of this?
Congratulations to Our Revolution for losing another race tonight. At least Nina Turner is used to it.
I wonder the same. Hopefully, a commenter from Ohio can let us know what lies behind the number.
I was impressed by this:
An anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative on the Ohio primary ballot also coasted to easy passage early Tuesday evening, with more than 75 percent of voters in favor as of 8:30 p.m.
That is a crazy large majority vote for something that will reduce or even eliminate a strong GOP advantage. According to the linked article, both the Republican and Democratic parties supported the measure.
Why did the GOP support it? One guess would be that the GOP feared that they could easily lose their legislative majority and end up on the wrong end of a nasty gerrymander. I don’t think that is the reason. The linked article provides a clue to what I think is the reason the GOP went along with the measure:
Ohioans voted in 2015 to change the way lines were drawn for state lawmakers, but legislative leaders back then punted on tackling the way congressional districts were divided. They pointed to an undecided U.S. Supreme Court decision as one reason to delay, but they also had pressure from then-U.S. Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester, to leave the process alone.
The delays frustrated voters and good government groups…
It looks like Ohio voters were strongly in favor of redistricting reform, and the parties had to stay out of the way. The measure on the ballot tonight preserved a strong role for the legislature in redistricting si the parties may have figured that it was the best they could get.
The redistributing reform approach looks pretty terrible to me, actually. It tries to force a 60% supermajority including at least half of the minority members in the state House to enact a set of districts. How do you get that? An old-fashioned incumbent-protection set of districts. So maybe the disproportionate representation will go down, but I doubt legislators will draw lots of competitive districts. Ohio will just have a large number of safely R districts and more safely D districts than they do now.
This is how gerrymandering operated until parties started using it much more for partisanship in the last decade or so.
The Ohio turnout numbers tell the whole story. Democrats will win nothing in November.
Here is what a commenter on another site wrote about the Ohio governor primary results:
“In 2010, Cordray and DeWine were matched against each other in the AG race. DeWine won by less than 2 points in a year which was highly favorable to Republicans nationwide. 2018 political climate favors Democrats. So, Cordray should have a slight upper hand in Nov. That said DeWine has won so many statewide elections in OH, he will be a formidable contender.”