after seeing this diary by RandySF this morning, i set out to figure out exactly where the 5th district was in ohio, so i went to wikipedia and typed in 'ohio 5th district'.
at the bottom of the page is a chart of vote totals in the district since the 1920 election. the most interesting thing is the last two lines, where weirauch and gillmor faced off in both of those elections. it was interesting that, even in the 2006 'wave' election, robin weirauch got almost exactly the same number of votes she did in 2004 (95,481 vs. 95,955) yet gillmor's vote total crashed from 194,559 to 126,898.
i'm sure some of that had to do with 2004 being a presidential election year, and 2006 being the off year. and some of it had to do with disaffected republicans staying home. but it seems like democrats maxed out their totals here.
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