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Did he win his district handily or was it close? Do we have a serious Dem candidate to take him on in 2014?
doc03
(35,363 posts)it is next to impossible to get rid of the teabaggers now. There was Issue 2 on the ballot that would have set up a bipartisan committee to set up Congressional districts but it failed. I think that was the biggest loss we took in the state of Ohio. Our Congressman (D) that got tea-bagged in 2010 wasn't able to regain his seat because of that and millions of dollars spent on the "War on Coal Fire Obama" funded by Bob Murray.
global1
(25,265 posts)granted that happened because his district was gerrymandered. Bottom line though he had a formidable opponent in Tammy Duckworth. I believe he lost by at least 10 percentage points.
So I think if we're able to identify the right candidate and early on in the process - that it isn't impossible to get rid of the teabaggers or for that matter the non-teabagging Repugs.
There are plenty of Iraq/Afghan veterans that are smart and credible and that would be one pool of potential Dem candidates that I would look into.
This election showed me that anything is possible if you put your mind to work for you and you are smart in your targeting and the ground game. We have a good ground game and smart infrastructure in place right now - lets not abandon it. Let's put it to good use immediately. I'm sure that there still is plenty of campaign money sitting around unspent that could potentially be used to mount a campaign to take back the House in 2014. We need to act now and take advantage of the momentum of this recent election.
We need to give PBO the mechanism to make him one of the greatest President's ever. We can do that by retaining and enhancing our position in the Senate and taking back the House. Let's make his last 2 years in office his best 2 years.
doc03
(35,363 posts)Ohio river for like 200 miles or more and takes in the coal industry and coal fired power plants.
Then we had Murray Energy and all the others dumping millions here with their War on Coal.
We did good in the statewide elections but congressional district wise not so good, I read that only 6% of the counties in Ohio voted for Obama.