This has no bearing on anything in particular, but I noticed it some time ago and it’s been driving me insane…
A win for Stivers would give the Ohio delegation four — yes, FOUR — members named Steve.
It started out with just Chabot and LaTourette. Lo and behold, Chabot came to be challenged (ultimately successfully) by none other than a fellow Steve (Driehaus). Still, this was to be no more than a preservation of the nomenclatural status quo, switching out a bad Steve for a good one.
Yet then Steve Austria won the Republican primary in OH-07. Holding out little hope for Democrats winning this seat, my attention fell to OH-15, where I assumed (probably along with many others) that Mary Jo, having been campaigning for four years, would handily beat Steve Stivers.
Election Night: the race was called for Stivers. My heart was broken on many levels — a good, hard-working Democrat had come up short, a premier pick-up opportunity had been missed, and Ohio’s Steve contingent had been **shudder** doubled.
But soon came word that the race was in fact too close to call!
Fearing the catastrophic glut of Steves I’d seen on the horizon, I began refreshing the Ohio Secretary of State’s page every few hours to monitor the results out of the 15th District. As of this moment, Superfluous Steve #4 is leading by 146 votes.
Such has been my life for the past five days.
Can Mary Jo still staunch the oncoming Tstevenami?
UPDATED: I’m proud/dumbstruck to announce that this very diary was featured on tonight’s Rachel Maddow Show.
Q: “But, what about Steve Driehaus?”
A: “We’re allowed to have ONE Steve.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Transcript here: http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/M…
what about Larry Craig, Larry Grant, and Larry LaRocco in Idaho?
And Larry Craig and Craig Thomas between Idaho and Wyoming?
This was one of the most entertaining rants I’ve read in a long time… not since a blahblabhalbhahlbahblhabmuslimblahblahblahblahidiotsblahbalbhalbhablhabhalbhablah has somethign made mesmile so much.
No other state elected more than one Steve. The seven elected Steves outside Ohio include four Democrats (Israel of NY-2, Rothman of NJ-9, Kagen of WI-8, and Cohen of TN-9) and three Republicans (Buyer of IN-4, King of IA-5, and Scalise of LA-1). Stephen Lynch of MA-9 is the only Stephen or Steven.
Steve seems to have little or no electoral popularity in the west. Steve Pearce lost his House seat while running for Senator.
South Dakota, of course, boasts Stephanie Herseth Sandlin who would never be confusd for a Steve.