Ohio special election polling closes - will Dems win tonight 1st time in 38 years?
 

Trump won the 12th district in Ohio by 11 points in 2016, will the blue wave take over Ohio tonight?

So far:

Democrat O'Connor @ 53% vote

Republican Balderson @ 34% vote

Love watching returns - finally, real information

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So far:

Democrat O'Connor @ 63% vote

Republican Balderson @ 38% vote

Yes that's the early mail in vote, all counted now.

From this point forward we're looking at today's election day votes which will tighten the results dramatically

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Democrat O'Connor @ 52% vote

Republican Balderson @ 47% vote

37% reporting

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Democrat O'Connor @ 53% vote

Republican Balderson @ 46% vote

46% reporting

When will you liberals learn.. Republicans work for a living.. Meaning Republican surge later in evening... Republican turnout is on par for 2016 election.. The blue wave get's handed an upset tonight...

Fuck off foreigner stop pretending to be American :321GFY

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Troy Balderson Republican 68,763 50.3%
Danny O’Connor Democrat 66,925 49.0
Joe Manchik Green 904 0.7

↑↑↑ I was right again :disgust

It has no impulse control it's part of its disability.

Ride the wave, it's so 2016..

http://i68.tinypic.com/s5d34l.jpg

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Danny O’Connor 82,911 50.1%
Troy Balderson 81,573 49.3
Joe Manchik 1,006 0.6

Trump won this district by 11 points in 2016

Trump campaigned here yesterday

My how times have changed for Trump :1orglaugh

Even a 3 point loss here by Dems is a win :thumbsup

This will be close. I think if the difference is .5% or less there will be a recount.

Danny O’Connor Democrat 85,678 49.7%
Troy Balderson Republican 85,523 49.7
Joe Manchik Green 1,037 0.6

All but 1 county pretty much 100%.. (Delaware) at 52%

It will be close but Balderson slips by.

Looks like a nail biter.

Whoever wins gets to do this again in November so this election really doesn't mean much more than acting as a sign of what is to come in a few months.

Delaware now 66%
Troy Balderson Republican 89,666 50.0%
Danny O’Connor Democrat 88,635 49.4
Joe Manchik Green 1,056 0.6

Facts are Trump has lost his 11 point lead there even after campaigning there yesterday.

Trump has pissed away all his political capital in just 18 months. Unheard of.

This district should be more than 11 points ahead for Balderson. This is a huge GOP referendum against Trump.

It is bad for Trump no matter what happens. The polls showed this a dead heat before he came here to campaign and obviously he didn't move the needle.

It's a win for Balderson

Franklin County is now at 99% and that just gives O'Conner this result

Danny O’Connor Democrat 91,053 49.8%
Troy Balderson Republican 90,852 49.7
Joe Manchik Green 1,078 0.6

With Delaware still at 66%

Yep.

Trump's campaigning there had zero impact on percentages so far.

Trump is officially a lame duck if the GOP doesn't win by a solid 1 point tonight.

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Danny O’Connor 91,053 49.8%
Troy Balderson 90,852 49.7%
Joe Manchik 1,078 0.6

91% reporting

Franklin county is Republican and only 66% votes counted in from that precinct so far so likely Balderson will squeak by.

Trump got 55% in Franklin county in 2016

Voter turnout percentages are par with 2016 and this is a special election which many don't participate in..

Delaware now at 82%

Troy Balderson Republican 95,677 49.9%
Danny O’Connor Democrat 94,936 49.5
Joe Manchik Green 1,102 0.6

The precincts in Franklin county are those tiny blue smudges of northern Columbus metro area. Which would be left leaning as are most metro areas.

Wow! 3,730 provisional ballots yet to be counted outside Delaware county and expected to go 2/3 Democrat

Provisional ballots for Franklin & Delaware not yet estimated but could be around 8k.

Trump has pissed away all of his political capital in 18 months.

The last Republican candidate to run in this precinct won by 37 points! Balderson is maybe 1 point holy fuck!

This presinct has not gone Democrat in 38 years and only 1 democratic elected there since 1938.

An additional 2,750 early votes yet to be counted.

No more Trump train, his momentum is completely gone, he can't even give a big win to a long time big blue presinct by campaigning in the area for a measly representatives seat. Wow

Republicans hold Ohio ...

... and all of socialist star Ocasio-Cortez's endorsed candidates lost Tuesday primaries.

I can't see how this result is anything but bad for the republicans. Even barely making it even costs 5M$ and a presidential visit. Something has gone wrong, whether it is dislike of Trump, or dislike of congressional republicans.

Which is good news for centrists democrats and independents. Most of us are not socialists. The people that are turning red districts are centrists. Bill Clinton, not Hillary.

Bladewire starts crying in 3... 2... 1...

Why?

I do not even know what happened, but it seems to me like this was a huge win for Democrats - even if they lost. This was a district the Democrats haven't won in thirty-five years. Just the fact that the Democrats came so close is a wake up call for Republicans.

Also, take a look at the money they invested. From what little I saw on TV tonight (which wasn't very much) the Republicans spent $5 million while the Democrats spent $1 million.

It's a special election.. Only die hard voters turn out... Democrats went all in no doubt... Dead people voting and all


Lot's of funny shit went down in GA

670 Ballots Cast in Georgia Precinct with 276 Voters
https://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ct-276-voters/

Those wins are the yugest.

Well of course the Dems will win. Why are you even asking?

Its obvious to all voters that Trump and the Republicans have destroyed every single facet of society and the economy. They've ruined everything.

EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!

Both of them will have to do it all over again as the term lasts until November

But it roughly mirrors results from every other special election in the last 18 months.

Yep!

Shocking that Trump has lost his grip on Republican voters in just 18 months.

Imagine how many voters Trump will lose after the first time Manafort is found guilty.

Imagine how many more voters after that Trump will lose when Mueller indicts Trump's son.

Imagine how many more voters on top of that Trump will lose when he fires Mueler.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Imagine how many voters will never claim to be Democrat ever again once they see the party has been deceiving them all along.

Dems had 87% turnout last night in a special election... They threw everything at it.. And lost...

You've won 1 out of 9 special elections.....

You speak of money spent.. Because they are broke... Last I saw they were still millions in the hole from 2016

Well, as with any election that doesn't go the way I want, allow me to suggest the only possible explanation for this otherwise perplexing mystery: it was clearly the Russians.

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