OH-02: Breaking News: "A Guy With a Name Like That Can't Win"

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Thursday April 29, 2010 · 4:34 AM PDT

2010/04/29 · 04:34

Just two days ago, I published a diary about Republican-Democratic collusion in Ohio's second district, collusion not only in this years race, but in the 2008 race, and going back all the way to Robert Taft's bipartisan "coalition" of the 1930s: http://www.dailykos.com/...

In a rather stunning vindication of my point, an April 26 letter from incumbent Republican Jean Schmidt has been released, in which Schmidt appears to make an endorsement in the DEMOCRATIC primary race, choosing the candidate she knows she can beat, Surya Yalamanchili, over the candidate she knows she cannot beat, David Krikorian.

Even more stunning, the chairmen of the Hamilton County, Clermont County, and Ohio Democratic Party organizations have, without validation or hearing, embraced charges against Krikorian made by the Republican opponent, and issued their own endorsements of Yalamanchili.

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Tuesday April 27, 2010 · 4:53 AM PDT

2010/04/27 · 04:53

In a continuing series titled Lies, Lies, Anastasia Pantsios at OhioDailyBlog.com wrote last Friday:

I really hate politicians who deliberately lie about their opposition, turning their strengths into weaknesses through total fabrication, a.k.a. "swiftboating." But since most of these people are Republicans, I kind of expect it.

But I REALLY hate when Democrats lie to smear other Democrats. I don’t even know why they do it. It drains the life out of our party and kills activism. It’s unethical, and in the long run, not effective.

Anastasia is referring to Lee Fisher's scurrilous attack-campaign against Jennifer Brunner in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate nominee. But the statement equally could apply to the second-most-controversial primary race in Ohio now, a race where a succession of dirty-tactic "Establishment" party designees have attempted to take out insurgent frontrunner and populist David Krikorian in the OH-02 congressional race.

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Thursday April 22, 2010 · 5:38 AM PDT

2010/04/22 · 05:38

David Krikorian, frontrunner in the race to unseat Republican Jean Hittite Microwave Schmidt, has scored a rare primary endorsement from Veterans' Vision. VV is a national non-profit advocating for homeless veterans since 1993 and promulgator of the Veterans' Bill of Rights.

Veterans' Vision has endorsed fifty "champions of the U.S. Congress" from both parties (mostly Democrats). John Kerry and Tom Harkin are among the endorsees. Krikorian is the only one not a sitting member of Congress, and one of only two who are competing in primaries considered competitive. The other is Congressman Joe Sestak, now challenging Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary for US Senator from Pennsylvania.

The veterans community is especially important in OH-02, which has a historically high military participation rate (home to U.S. Grant).

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If she loses the GOP primary, Jean Schmidt will:

24 votes Vote Now!

If she loses the GOP primary, Jean Schmidt will:

Cut and run, like Sarah Palin

4 votes

Don her Captain America suit and chain herself to the House speaker's podium

2 votes

Seek political asylum in OH-08 (Boehner's district)

5 votes

Claim for a third time that people are trying to kill her

6 votes

Start a Fox network version of The View starring herself, Sarah P., Michelle Bachmann, and Ann Coulter

7 votes

OH-02: Congressmen Give Primary Endorsements to Krikorian, with Breaking NEWS

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Tuesday April 13, 2010 · 4:28 PM PDT

2010/04/13 · 16:28

Two powerful sitting Democrats in the U.S. Congress have taken the highly unusual step of giving a primary endorsement to David Krikorian, now far in the lead for the Democratic nomination in Ohio's second district. Krikorian will likely face incumbent coprolite Jean Schmidt in November. (No need to look it up; a coprolite is a fossilized turd.)

Ohio's primary election is exactly three weeks from today on May 4. Early voting now enters its third week. Since all ten Democratic members of the Ohio congressional delegation are seeking reelection, and seven of the eight seats held by Republicans are considered unwinnable by Democrats, OH-02 is the only Ohio district that is flippable and that has competitive primaries in both major parties.

As Krikorian outpaces his two primary opponents, and as Schmidt's three primary opponents increasingly savage her, the chances of the seat flipping now increase dramatically.

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Thursday April 08, 2010 · 11:41 AM PDT

2010/04/08 · 11:41

The 2010 race in Ohio's 2nd district has been set as a match between incumbent Republican Jean Schmidt and Democrat David Krikorian, with the latter holding advantage. Schmidt has known that, which is why she pursued spurious anti-Free Speech charges against Krikorian before the Ohio Elections Commission, hoping to knock him out of contention.

Anyone who saw the televised 2008 debate has known that, because unfunded outsider Krikorian--then running as an Independent, a populist when populism wasn't cool--vastly outperformed both Schmidt and the Democratic nominee. Democrats were left wishing that Krikorian had been our man, and we now have our wish. Krikorian pulled 18% of the ultimate vote, the most of any Independent congressional candidate in the nation that year.

But this hasn't set well with "the Establishment," which views Krikorian as a loose cannon and a potential threat.

And so, some carnival-barkers of the Ohio Political Class are trying to bruise Krikorian if not knock him out of the ring. Unlike Krikorian, who was a lifelong Democrat before 2008, the stunt man anointed to challenge him has never before voted in a Democratic primary, and has never been registered as a Democrat.

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How will Jean Schmidt get health care after we boot her from Congress?

12 votes Vote Now!

How will Jean Schmidt get health care after we boot her from Congress?

Cut and run to a country with socialized medicine

0 votes

Go to work as an insurance industry lobbyist

4 votes

Ignore all ailments until Obamacare kicks in

2 votes

Vote for a Medicare extension during the lame-duck session

3 votes

Just use the emergency room for primary care

3 votes

OH-02: Jean Schmidt Fakes Being Targeted for Assassination -- AGAIN!

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Monday March 29, 2010 · 7:25 AM PDT

2010/03/29 · 07:25

Some Republicans still think their Schmidt don't stink. Indeed, Mean Jean ranks as one of the deep thinkers of the GOP, the creme de la creeps, one of the illiterati who couch their opposition to health care reform in philosophical terms.

Schmidt and Limbaugh decry the "Culture of Victimhood" that they see infecting liberal America, the unreal America where freeloaders trump up stories of how they have been victimized in order to claim rights and privileges unbefitting their station or race.

In a frenzy over HCR passage, Ms. Deep Schmidt, facing a severe reelection challenge, decided that she can't cut and run. Rather, she must get in on the act.

On March 24, Schmidt's Chief of Staff told media that the congressentity from Ohio had received a voicemail message threatening her life. The incident played off another during the runup to the 2008 election, when Schmidt outright claimed that a man tried to kill her by running her down (in a car).

Schmidt is bucking for a two-fer: two sympathy-vote election victories on the basis of one concocted "victimhood" allegation. Neither incident involved any real "threat" on her life.

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Wednesday March 24, 2010 · 1:35 PM PDT

2010/03/24 · 13:35

Following up on analysis of polls in the Ohio Governor's race yesterday (see blogroll), today is packed with news about the US Senate race in Ohio, and the news is all good for Jennifer Brunner.

First, PPP is out with head-to-head polls of the race against certain GOP nominee Rob the Poor Portman. Secretary of State Brunner and Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher had been running about equally well against the Cincinnati Day School troglodyte. But now Brunner has a distinct competitive edge. Portman beats Fisher by five points, 41-36, but matches Brunner in a statistical tie, 38-37.

Ohioans may remain undecided about this race, but more and more are deciding they don't want Lee Fisher.

The even bigger news is that Michael Pryce MD, a Tea Party spoiler from NE Ohio, is entering the race as an Indy focused on repealing the HCR bill (good luck with that!). Did they teach you to share well at day school, Rob?

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Tuesday March 23, 2010 · 5:02 PM PDT

2010/03/23 · 17:02

D-leaning PPP is out with a new poll of the Ohio governor's race today that shows incumbent Democratic governor Ted Strickland trailing Republican John Kasich 42-37%. http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/...

It's not the margin, it's the motion, as they say. Strickland was 20 points ahead one year ago, and his approval rating was then Olympian. 37% for an incumbent is abyssal, regardless of where the opponent stands. PPP has Strickland's approval rating now at just 33% among all voters, and just 53% among Democrats, the latter being worse than he was rated by all voters just one year ago. Strickland's Ohio approval rating is now lower than Obama's, the "black man" whom Strickland once said could not win the presidential contest in this state.

Imagine that. PPP -- and remember they are Democrats -- now labels Strickland

"an unusually unpopular incumbent."

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Friday March 19, 2010 · 10:27 AM PDT

2010/03/19 · 10:27

David Krikorian, the leading Democratic candidate in the race to unseat Jean Schmidt in OH-02, today issued a brief statement and longer Op-Ed piece urging passage of the Health Care Reform Bill. The Op-Ed is posted to his website at: http://www.ilikedave.org/...

Krikorian's forthright support of the legislation is notable because Ohio has the largest bloc of "undecided" or wavering Democratic members of Congress. Neighboring Democrat Zack Space in OH-18 is officially undecided, and Steve Driehaus in OH-01 has expressed his intent to vote NO. Other neighboring congressmen include John Boehner and Steve Austria. The Tea Party movement is also based in Cincinnati, which is split between OH-01 and OH-02.

Krikorian's position was clinched by the CBO report on the bill, proving the measure to be beneficial for the budget deficit.

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Friday March 05, 2010 · 12:58 PM PST

2010/03/05 · 12:58

According to an article in Pink News http://www.pinknews.co.uk/... , the right-wing American Family Association wants the orca Tillikum, involved in the death of Sea World trainer Dawn Brancheau, stoned to death under biblical law. Tillikum pulled Brancheau into the water by her pony tail.

Bryan Fischer, of AFP is quoted as invoking the prescribed final solution for murderous animals from the Book of Exodus:

The Scripture soberly warns, if one of your animals kills a second time because you didn’t kill it after it claimed its first human victim, this time you die right along with your animal.

Now since Tillikum actually had killed one or two individuals on prior occasions, a correct interpretation of the Law of Moses would be that Tillikum's owners -- the board of directors of Sea World -- should be also stoned to death. Come now, Mr. Fischer, where is your faith?

But leaving that trivial inconvenience aside, I have the perfect Solomonic solution to this whale of a legal dilemma.

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Tuesday February 16, 2010 · 5:01 AM PST

2010/02/16 · 05:01

It could be the plot of a dystopian novel from the pen of a Sarah Palin ghostwriter. But no, it's the serious suggestion of Ohio's Democratic governor, Ted Unelectable Strickland:

Take $400 million in federal "strimulus" funds, add a dollop of non-existent state revenue, and throw that money toward a notoriously corrupt group of industrialists to build a new transit system that is so slow, expensive, and inconvenient that it's guaranteed to attract few riders, displace no automotive traffic, save no energy, and yield no technological innovations. And it will be run by Democrats, up and down the line.

Leading Ohio Democrats including congresswoman Marcy Kaptur have broken with the governor and attacked the project as a doggle -- that's a boondoggle with no boon.

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Why has Ted Strickland advocated the Turtle Train?

38 votes Vote Now!

Why has Ted Strickland advocated the Turtle Train?

tired of claiming the Cook-the-Books slot machine scam as his "biggest mistake"

2 votes

knows the Amish don't vote

4 votes

wants to be able to read the entire HCR bill on one train trip to Cleveland

7 votes

preparation for his near-term retirement plan of taking a slow boat to China

2 votes

wishes to sabotage the Obama Administration like his friend Evan Bayh

23 votes

Lies, Damned Lies, and Ohio Statistics

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Sunday February 07, 2010 · 7:35 AM PST

2010/02/07 · 07:35

Let's begin with a guided meditation. After reading the next few paragraphs, close your eyes, and envision yourself in the situation of a swing voter in the center of southern Ohio, Appalachian Ohio, where I live.

You hear Democrats in the media celebrate a drop of the national unemployment rate into single digits, and say that the Democratic Party will be resurgent if the rate falls to 8%. But the official unemploymkent rate in your county (my county) hit 16.7% in December, and continues to rise. That official rate masks an actual rate many times higher, but "workers" in rural Appalachia have been "discouraged" for generations. The population in the county has been in long-term absolute decline, as young people leave and never return.

The actual unemployment rate in the county has not been in single digits since 1954, when a large federal construction project ended.

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