OH-2 Special Election Coverage and Prediction thread...

[minionofmidas]

Well, of course he's doing that - I hope nobody's denying that?
Schmidt 52.1%

[minionofmidas]

Kudos to Casey. Nice prediction man

Thanks!

Ahem.

Schmidt 52.1%

[minionofmidas]

Although the final result is actually Schmidt 51.6%, so my prediction isn't as good as I first thought (taking the 52% I saw somewhere as 52.0%)...but it's still the best.

[minionofmidas]

Last night was the closest Hackett is ever going to get to being a US Congressman. He certainly won't so much as sniff the Senate.

He's a nobody. All the stars were aligned and the best he could do was lose by less than previous Democrats. Great. You know a party is in trouble when they venerate their 'best loser.'

I think Hackett did well. Granted he didn't win - but I think reducing the GOP majority from 44% to 4% and that is not bad going in what seems to be an overwhelmingly GOP district. In other words, he lost by one hell of a lot less, though you wouldn't think it from your tone. Schmidt ought to have won by a bigger margin than that

You can scorn as much as you want but I don't think Democrats have any reason to be downbeat, as much as you'd like them to be

Dave

3.2% actually.