How bad was Ed FitzGerald's Historically Bad Loss to John Kasich?
Who voted for Ed FitzGerald? I did see some yard signs in his hometown of Lakewood, Ohio, but it turns out that these people were in the minority. Here's a map from that article.
Ed FitzGerald with a capital G didn't win CuyaHoga and he didn't win LakeWood. Furthermore, the article points out something amazing to me: Ed FitzGerald didn't even win his own neighborhood in LakeWood!
FitzGerald's neighbors in Lakewood Precinct 1H favored Gov. John Kasich, 249-140 on Tuesday.
It's not that the western Lakewood precinct is Democrat territory; voters there favored the Republican Kasich, 259-205, over Ted Strickland in 2010.
But FitzGerald's failure to pick up even 35 percent of the vote in his own neighborhood illustrates the depth of his loss.
So check this out: Kasich won FitzGerald's neighborhood in Lakewood with 64% which is the same percentage as he received in the state! He only got 55% when he was running against Strickland in 2010.
Later in the article there is a chart of the cities in the Greater Cleveland Area where Fitz won highlighted in blue. As one would expect, they are the places where you don't want to live or can't afford to. IOW, Democrat strongholds. Here is another illustration of the depth of FitzGerald's loss (from the AP):
It's nice to see Ohio red again. Man, are the Democrats mad. Go over to Fitz's Facebook page to check out some hilarious meltdowns.
What's different about those two counties?
ReplyDeleteLooks like Ed Fitzgerald did even worse, by county, than Wendy Davis. And that's pretty bad.
Athens and Monroe counties. Athens in home to Ohio University. Monroe is pretty small -- 14,600 people.
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Monroe County
Wonder how many of those college students voted in Athens and also voted absentee in their home towns ...
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