Precincts reporting: 53.24%
% Votes
Latta (R) 55.79 23,369
Weirauch (D) 44.00 18,431
Not looking good thus far...
Update: Given this is a open seat in a solidly red district, the district seems to be performing as it should --except that -- at 43.2% reporting -- a six percent improvement over Democratic performance in 2004, not to mention that Republicans dumped money they didn't have to pull this one out of the fire -- at least 2-1 (we'll know more in a couple of days). They won't have that luxury in many districts in 2008.
Update II: Okay, I'm done here. My kids are begging for a little attention before they go down for the night. Republicans beat us in the expectations game, got enough of their people out, and basically kept things even from 2006. They spent a shitload of money for an "expectations" game victory in what might have otherwise been a routine and uneventful hold. So well played to them.
But the bottom line is that they held an R+10 seat. Funny that this is the sort of thing they're left "celebrating" these days.