OH-15: Kilroy Wins



Kilroy is here.

Badaboom!

Now it’s official: Mary Jo Kilroy will be going to Washington as the first Democrat to represent any part of Franklin County in Congress in a generation.

Final vote tallies released this evening by the Franklin County Board of Elections show that Kilroy defeated Republican state Sen. Steve Stivers by 2,311 votes, outside of the 0.5 percent margin to trigger a recount.

Kilroy, a Franklin County commissioner, picked up a lopsided majority of provisional ballots counted by the Franklin County Board of Elections over the weekend after a court ruling Friday afternoon.

Big props to people-powered prophet DavidNYC — he pretty much nailed the final result of this one a couple of weeks ago. Kilroy’s win over Republican Steve “Steve” Stivers is a nice way to cap off the weekend — it sure helps wash the taste of LA-04 outta my mouth!

70 thoughts on “OH-15: Kilroy Wins”

  1. Now she has to work a lot harder campaigning. We should have won this seat on election night, it shouldn’t have been this close.

    Anyway great job and a welcome addition to the Democratic Team.

  2. Now that that’s settled…

    Anyone know what went wrong to make the race so darn close in the first place?  I thought this was a near-guaranteed pickup!

  3. and

    they also gained 2 state house seats!

    Good job Ohio.  With Brunner and the Dems in charge of redistricting, we’ll probably be seeing quite a different Ohio with probably still close elections at the Presidential level.

    Kilroy and Dreihaus will be given favorable districts and you can probably make Austria really safe while screwing up Tiberi as Franklin county can still be divided up a bit to make two congressional seats, and there can be another Dem seat based around Dayton and Latourette could be booted as well.

    And they lose a seat which will definitely be a Republican one, anyone know which part of the state is losing population the most?  Cleveland?  Combine all the area of 2,3,4,5,7,8 and minus out a district?

    If that all that goes to plan, the map could be 12-5 Dem.  HA!  But that’s not very realistic.  I could see us not really not touching Tiberi and LaTourette, I’m not sure if they could really be threatened.  Maybe just put Kilroy in a D+5 district and see what we can do after that.

    Redistricting is so fun to speculate about…  Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan are going to be completely different looking.

  4. And hey, it feels good that we’re ending the House elections on a high note. I guess this makes up for the bad news from Louisiana yesterday. And yay, Ohio now has a majority Dem House Delegation! 🙂

  5. In 2006, Indiana and Iowa flipped and Mninnesota and Wisconsin went from ties to D majorities.  In 2008, Michigan and Ohio flipped.

    At this point, Idaho (at 1-1) is the nation’s only tied delegation.

  6. Now that Rich Cordray has won (comfortably) for AG,  I expect us to control the state redistricting process. And so, with the Governor and the Ohio House, what if some GOP state Senator gets combative about reapportionment? Threaten to eliminate his District.

    Which will be realistic because right now, the state Senate map is ridiculous. Even a “compromise” map is gonna wipe out a ton of cushy GOP seats. If Sheriff Ted calls their bluff (and I am counting on him to do just that!) the GOP will whimper like kittens.

    Just remember what the GOP did to Ted’s old District… I hope he will.

    With Strickland, Cordray and Brunner running Ohio, if I were a GOP operative, I’d be working on my resume, polishing my Guccis to a high shine and thinking about relocation. (Hmmn, I hear Kansas is nice..)

    On the other hand, just how hopeless IS the Ohio Democratic Senate caucus? Well, let’s visit their website and see…

    Ah, now the final question(s) for Ohioans this time around, who will replace Cordray as Treasurer? (Or Boccieri, Driehaus and Kilroy?)

  7. Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo…domo

    Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo…domo

    Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, domo…domo

    Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto

    For doing the jobs that nobody wants to

    And thank you very much, Mr. Roboto

    For helping me escape just when I needed to

    Thank you-thank you, thank you

    I want to thank you, please, thank you

    The problem’s plain to see: too much technology

    Machines to save our lives. Machines dehumanize.

    The time has come at last

    To throw away this mask

    So everyone can see

    My true identity…

    I’m Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy! Kilroy!

  8. Three Seats Flipping:

    Virginia

    Ohio

    New York

    Florida (2D, 1R)

    Two Seats Flipping:

    New Mexico

    Michigan

    Louisiana (2R)

    One Seat Flipping:

    Idaho

    Nevada

    Arizona

    Colorado

    Kansas (R)

    Texas (R)

    Illinois

    Alabama

    North Carolina

    Maryland

    Pennsylvania

    New Jersey

    Connecticut

  9. Democrats control the House delegations in a huge block sweeping from Maine south to North Carolina and west tothe Dakotas.  The one exception in this 23 state empire is Delaware, 1-0 Republican.  If you want, the block could extend into Tennessee but that literally encircles Kentucky.  Too weird.

    The sixteen states controlled by the Republicansinclude four with just one representative: DE,MT,WY, and AK.  The others are SC (4-2),GA (7-6),FL(15-10),AL (4-3),KY(4-2),LA(6-1),TX(20-12),MO(5-4),OK(4-1),KS(3-1),NE(3-0) and UT(2-1).  Flip one seat and we gain the edge in 8 of the 16 and tie 3 others.

  10. I had her pegged to win by 1,500. Good job! I hope local voters remember how the Republicans fought tooth and nail to put off the inevitable. Given the margin they lost by, they have egg all over their faces.

  11. Do we go after them in 2010, try to eliminate their districts in 2012, or rewire them as leans dem districts in 2012?

    Pretty much, I’m asking if we have maxed out in Ohio or can we squeeze two more out of the state (or is there any hope against Turner and Austria?).

  12. There used to be a paint company (Sherwin Williams?) that had an advertisement showing a bucket of paint spreading from the North Pole all done over the globe to cover the northern and coastal parts of the United States.

    This election reminded me of that as a sea of blue seems to be covering more and more of the map.

    Yeah!!!

    Happy, happy Democrat.

  13. Kilroy’s win is important in and of itself to Democrats everywhere and to all persons interested in progressive public policy.  

    And in terms of both broader geopolitical symbolism and realpolitik hegemony, Kilroy’s win completes a remarkably swift, region-wide reversal of fortune in the Great Lakes states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.  

    For Democrats have now attained majority status in all eight of the Great Lakes states’ Congressional delegations.  

    Five years ago Democrats ruled only the New York delegation.

    Democratic hegemony in the Great Lakes states is a linchpin of the marginalization of Republican politics as little more than the voice of Dixie extremism.  

    Of course, successes in the Mountain West are also indispensible.  

    As are successes in established Democratic strongholds.  

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