2nd Congressional District (OH): Odds and Ends from the Recently Discovered Center of the Political Universe

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a local election generate so much heat on election day, and it’s not just the 95-plus-degree weather.

All of a sudden the world can’t get enough of Ohio’s Second Congressional District:

• Rush talked about the race today, apparently at length and has posted the first Hackett video on his site. I didn’t listen (I thought the local guy Bill Cunningham would talk about it on his afternoon program–basically, no for the 20% or so that I caught). I’m waiting for Rush’s roughly 6PM site update to read what he really said, as left blogs are leveling some pretty serious charges.
  UPDATE: BizzyBlog links, you decide (links will only work for 24 hours, titles abbreviated):
  - Libs Must Lie to Win
  - Team Hackett Readies Voter Fraud Charges
  UPDATE 2: Have been waiting for someone of Rush’s stature to say this:

  Here they’re looking at this as a bellwether election and their candidate will not even admit to being a Democrat, which means they’re still in the we’ve-gotta-deceive-people mode. If we tell them he’s a Democrat, well, it isn’t going to fly in this district. This district is not going to elect Democrats. Yet the media is looking at this as a bellwether election.
  ….. But I’m just going to tell you, folks, this is no bellwether whatsoever. When you’ve got a Democrat that won’t run as a Democrat, when you’ve got a Democrat who will not say everything Democrats are saying and then they try to say he won the race, don’t fall for this. This is more smoke and mirrors, and it’s a great example of how the left and the Democrats continue to lie to even themselves.

  Rush doesn’t post 100% of his show, so I can’t confirm or deny whether or how often he (or a caller or Rush staff person) said “staff puke,” as alleged by the left blogs. Assuming he did, add Rush to the list of people who have not had their finest hour during the past few days.

• Cable news guys (I’ve seen the names Ron Brownstein of the LA Times and MSNBC’s Shout-em-Down O’Donnell mentioned) are setting an expectation for Hackett of 45%, saying that much or more is a moral victory and an indication of Bush weakness (in…your…dreams). I think this is what is known as “lowering the bar.”
• Apparently the traffic has taken down the OH02 blog. I’m rooting for a revival there by 7:30 PM.