Ohio Ground Report: New Primary Date & Straw Poll Results
Interesting news from my home state Saturday. The Franklin County GOP held its first-ever “Swing State Straw Poll” on Saturday, a day after Ohio governor John Kasich signed a bill moving Ohio’s presidential primary to June from March, because of congressional redistricting that’s mandated to happen next year.
This puts the Ohio presidential balloting behind that of 40 other states.
You can imagine how disappointing this is for us Buckeyes. A lot of us are afraid we’ll have very little impact on the presidential race–for the second presidential vote in a row.
In 2008, Barack Hussein “Not A Muslim” Obama stole the election in Ohio with the support of ACORN and Soros plant SOS Jennifer Brunner. The narcissist-in-chief’s margin of victory was roughly equal to the margin of voter fraud facilitated by Brunner.
So, my vote didn’t count in 2008. I was disenfranchised. And by the time of Ohio’s 2010 primary, the Democrat-controlled media had already shoved John McCain down our throats.
Unfortunately, due to redistricting, Ohio’s presidential primary could now become even more of a moot point–it won’t take place until sometime in June, 2012. We Buckeyes may have very little influence unless voters in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and Iowa–and 36 other states–stop drinking the Kool-aid catered by the Democrat-Controlled Media.
Ironically, this new primary date was set the day before the inaugural “Swing State Straw Poll,” organized by the Franklin County Republican Party. Franklin County is the home of Columbus, the state capitol, and a big university. (Let’s see how many Buckeyes are in the house…”O – H”…) The Straw Poll attracted Republican activists from throughout the state, each of whom paid $25 to participate. A total of 428 voters took part.
Here are the results:
Ron Paul – 53.50%
Herman Cain – 25.47%
Mitt Romney – 8.88%
Newt Gingrich – 5.37%
Rick Perry – 2.80%
Jon Huntsman – 2.10%
Rick Santorum – 0.93%
Michele Bachmann – 0.47%
So, now that Mittens Romneycare has started to finish a consistent third or worse in straw polls, and Rick “I Heart Illegals” Perry is now getting half as many votes as Newt Gingrich, can we please stop calling Mittens and Perry the “frontrunners?”
I’m not as connected to my former network of Ron Paul 2008 supporters as I once was, so I wasn’t sure if there was much of an organized effort to get out the vote for him. I saw a mention here and there on Facebook and that was about it. With the airwaves kind of quiet in the Ron Paul Ohio blogosphere, I wasn’t expecting much. So even I was shocked to discover that over HALF the voters who took part voted for Ron Paul. And from comments I’m reading online, they were from througout Ohio. And what really surprises me is that I don’t recognize any of them. In 2008, the ranks of Ron Paul supporters were so small that we all kind of knew each other or knew of each other. This time…I recognized one name.
It’s possible that the Cocktail Party GOP is going to have its clock cleaned in June of 2012 if its not careful, in the same way the Democrat party had its clock cleaned in the mid-term elections of 2010. It would appear that the most active of Ohio Republican activists are Ron Paul supporters.
This does not bode well for the likes of RINOs like Mittens Romneycare and Ricardo Perry.
Perhaps Ohio will make a difference after all.
© 2011, Kathleen Gee. All rights reserved.
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Why don’t we have primaries on the same day for all fifty states? We have one general election at once, so why not do the primaries at the same time, say, in June? Then there is unity in the parties rather than all this “we go first” crap between states and discord among the parties whose candidates try to out do each other. And less political punditing from idiots in the press and the insiders.
Amen. This manipulation has reached the point of being ridiculous and laughable. Excellent point, khemo.
It’s up to each individual State to determine how and when they select Electors to the Electoral College. Most Americans have no idea that they have no inherent constitutional right to vote for President. (And actually, we don’t have direct election for the office of President. The Electoral College vote is what counts.) This was clarified by the Supreme Court in the 2000 Bush v Gore decision, which states,
It’s a 10th Amendment issue. The Constitution doesn’t give the Federal government the power to run presidential elections, so it’s up to the individual States.
I agree that I would like to see Primary Day as one date across all states. I really don't trust Iowa and NH to pick my candidates for me and would prefer for my vote to carry as much weight. The other thing I'd like to see if what we have in our state – to vote in the primary, you have to register ahead of time and be a member of that party. Won't happen, but I'd like to see it.
What we need is a Constitutional amendment:
No individual may declare his candidacy nor solicit funds for any elected federal office one year and one day prior to the scheduled election of said office. No state or federal jurisdiction may schedule an election for the purposes of selecting or determining candidates for any elective federal office nine months (270 days) prior to the scheduled election of said office. Political parties or groups may not schedule caucuses or meetings for the purposes of selecting or determining candidates for any elective federal office nine months (270 days) prior to the scheduled election of said office.
Individuals would still be able to form groups like C4P, potential candidates could still form exploratory committees, news organizations could still conduct debates on the issues, polls could still be take on the country's attitudes, but at least the "gun" wouldn't go off until the 367th day before the election (remember Presidential elections are held on a Leap year). So we would still be wondering who was going to announce on November 4th and the Iowa caucuses or any primary would not be allowed to be held until February 8th. Maybe then the big states like Ohio would want their primaries in June and so they could be the king makers after allowing the candidates to be vetted in the early states in February and the following months. Makes so much sense, huh? It would spare us of this never ending campaigning. Oh, and the sitting President couldn't hold any fund raising events for his/her reelection prior to the 367th day before the election. Think of all the tax monies saved there.
I-O!!
Okay now lets get back to reading the rest of this story…