Good Morning, Y’all! It is simply amazing that the Dems can spin an election loss somehow into a win. Jean Schmidt (R) beat Paul Hacket (Very D) in a special election in Ohio’s 2nd District yesterday by 52% to 48%. Vote tallies were 57,974 to 54,401. But somehow, this is a win for the Dems. LOL. First, Hackett throws a slur at Southern Ohio (what else can a Dem do but make slurs? Hackett’s whole campaign was mud)
"For the first time in almost 40 years democracy has succeeded in southern Ohio," Hackett told his supporters. "We as Democrats demonstrated what we can do when we put our heads together and roll up our sleeves."
Isn’t that sweet. Asshat. Will he next claim that there was Republican fraud? Here comes the "we won part."
"Democracy won. We won. The voters won in the Second District won because we gave them a choice. Whenever Americans have a choice, democracy is a benefactor," Hackett said, "and we gave that to them."
And from another Dem:
"There’s no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide," said U.S. Rep. Rahm Emmanuel of Illinois, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Ummm, sure. There’s spin, then there’s spin. See the Koolaid kids at Kosbat for me seething.
Let me put it this way. 112,375 people voted Tuesday. 308,941 voted on 11/2/04. Only 36% of the number of people who voted on 11/2 voted yesterday. Who knows what the voting patterns were. Maybe the Dems did a better job of getting out the vote. Nationally, the Dems were the only ones who cared. And Republicans tend to take vacations in the summer, instead of protesting and filling out petitions like Dems.
The Dems think that this is some test case. Delusional. I reckon I could go on, but, to what point? This was one District in Ohio, and, guess what Dems? The GOP won. Again.
Update: Michelle Malkin links to TPM Cafe, where the conspiracy theories have started.
I guess Hacket need to take a tour with Hanoi John. They can start at the White House and see who lives there, and then go over and visit the house of rep’s, I doubt that Hacket will find his name on a desk, or a door. I’ve been saying for years that a fact to a liberal is some unknown language.