GOTV for Paul Hackett Before Tuesday!
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Who: Armando from Dailykos & others
When: by August 2,2005
What: Get Out the Vote for OH-2 candidate Paul Hackett
Armando tells us what can we do to help Hackett before the 8/2/05 special election on OH-2:
Volunteer if you live close enough
Follow and spread the Hackett news
Spread the word that Jean Schmidt is clueless
Results: Paul within 3.4% of Jean Schmidt
A result so close in a district where democrats historically lose by 70 percentage points is fantastic!
OH-02: What a ride
Political observer Charlie Cook wrote:
If Schmidt's victory margin is in double digits, this tells us that there is not much of an anti-GOP wind in Ohio right now. If the margin is say six to nine points for Schmidt, then there is a wind, but certainly no hurricane. A Schmidt win of less than five points should be a very serious warning sign for Ohio Republicans that something is very, very wrong, while a Hackett victory would be a devastating blow to the Ohio GOP.
From the looks of it, the margin was under 4 percent, or per Cook's analysis, a "very serious warning sign" for the state GOP. Indeed, this is probably the only district in Ohio in which Paul would've lost.
So the state GOP avoids a "devastating blow", but only by the hair on their chinny chin chin. OH-02 saw the resurgance of the Democratic Party, the GOP had to spend $500K they hadn't otherwise planned on spending, and a Democratic star is born (next stop for Hackett -- statewide elected office). So much for "burying" Hackett...
The post-mortems will come in the coming days, but for now, I'm happy with what everyone accomplished in Ohio. It's a new day for the Democratic Party, one in which no Republican district is safe.
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