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‘Roots News: Voter turnout, OH-05 predictions


From Ohio Daily Blog, on the road:

On the road I called Dr. Mike Zickar, Wood County Democratic Party Chair, and asked him about turnout. He said that turnout was light at his particular precinct, near Perrysburg, and he saw no volunteer activity in the vicinity. The only sign near the polling place was for Buehrer.

The forecast is for the weather to get worse for the after work time frame, so all indications are for very low turnout in this special election. I’m tempted to say that the low turnout will skew the election toward hard-core partisans, which on the GOP side bodes well for Buehrer.

Also from Ohio Daily Blog, on the OH-05 primary:

I spoke on the phone this morning with investment advisor Ben Nienberg (D-Glandorf), who won 39.92% of the vote against State Sen. Steve Buehrer (R-Delta) in the 1st Ohio Senate District race in 2006. I asked him to comment on the GOP primary from his perspective in the western part of the 15th Congressional District.

Between Buehrer and State Rep. Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green), he said, it is a like a tragedy, or maybe a joke. It looks like Buehrer will be spending over half a million, or have that much spent on his behalf, and Latta has over $300,000, but “they’ve been calling each other liars and accusing each other of stealing money for the entire campaign.” It seems to all being done in TV commercials, he said, he hasn’t heard anything on the radio.

Yeah, just bloggers spewing opinion primary source work from their basements on the road in their pjs in their raingear.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:07 pm November 6th, 2007 in Blogging, Elections, Ohio, Politics 

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