OH-Sen 2022: So you’re telling me there’s a chance

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https://twitter.com/JamesArkin/status/1379503137552281600

So Tim Ryan is pretty much going to be unopposed in the primary now,  maybe that raises his chances in the general from 10% to 11%.

So you're saying there's a chance?
lol Ohio

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https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1405980032816713728

Yikes....

Turning a race that should be likely/Safe R into a competitive race... but then again it's Ohio lmao

It weird how ten years ago this is the type of tweet we'd expect from a 12 year old edgy meme lord, now we get it from a (leading?) Senate candidate and it doesn't cause any response from me other than "lol".

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Sure Racism this open has gotta hurt him.
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People are correct, open racism probably only helps him in a Ohio Republican primary. At least he got ratioed and lol: https://twitter.com/CleverTitleTK/status/1433838194215297127?s=20

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Bruh:

https://twitter.com/JoshforGeorgia/status/1516093390378741763?s=20&t=alCAp0I...

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And now JD Vance is essentially arguing that women should stay in "violent" marriages instead of getting divorced because children are better off in an abusive household than they are in a non-abusive household where one of the parents divorced the other to escape domestic violence.  Vance also said that he was "skeptical" about whether victims of domestic violence were better off divorcing their abuser to escape said domestic violence than they would be if they were unable divorce to their abuser.  

https://politicalwire.com/2022/07/25/j-d-vance-says-people-should-stay-in-violent-marriages/

Here is the full quote:

“This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that like, ‘well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term.'  And maybe it worked out for the moms and dads, though I’m skeptical. But it really didn’t work out for the kids of those marriages."

I don't know if it matters in today's hyper-partisan political environment, but this sort of thing is probably about as close as you can get to a Todd Akin "legitimate rape" or a Richard Mourdock-level gaffe these days.  

What is the precedent for Tim Ryan winning? Would it be Heidi Heitkamp in 2012? Open seat, but demographics and Presidential votes are fatal to Dems? ND at least had a stronger track record of Democratic senators than Ohio, although Ohio has one which is better than zero.

2012 was clearly a better Dem year than 2022 can ever hope to be but ND then was redder than Ohio now.

Maybe Donnelly beating Mourdock in 2012?  2012 was obviously a less Republican year than 2022, but (IIRC) Indiana was also a significantly more Republican than than Ohio is today.

Top voted comment on politicalwire.com: "Pro tip: staying in a violent marriage does not work for the kids, either."