Breaking OH-2: Wulsin Raises More Cash Than Any Other Ohio Dem Challenger
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 07/15/2007 - 8:55pm.
Stop the presses!!!
You know how we mentioned yesterday that Steve Black had raised $208,514 bucks in the DCCC's favorite race to ignore, OH-2?
Well Victoria Wulsin outraised that!!!!
Yeah, you heard that right.
Vic raised $213,582 this cycle to take on Mean Jean (who is broke broke broke...with $300k in debt and $85k in the bank. Mean Jean didn't even raise $100k this cycle. That's poo).
Only $1,000 of Vic's stash is PAC money too.
People are ready for change in the 2nd district; they've shown overwhelmingly this quarter by giving Democrats over $400,000 in one of Ohio's historically most Republican leaning districts.
I'd say Jeanie's days are numbered.
Black Equals Vic's Fundraising in OH-02
Submitted by cleanhouse on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 11:44am.
It really is going to be interesting. What's really impressive is that Steve Black, a newcomer to OH-02 politics, with no name recognition, managed to raise virtually the same amount of money as Vic Wulsin, the perennial, twice-defeated Democrat candidate for the OH-02 House seat. That bodes very well for Black's chances in the primary.
Black writes himself a check, still raises less money
Submitted by modernesquire on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 7:26pm.
Funny math you're using "cleanhouse." Because the FEC makes it pretty clear that Wulsin raised more money than Black, albeit not substantially more.
However, Black's $208k in fundraising is less impressive once you factor in the $58,320 donation made by the candidate. His biggest political supporters seem to be his family and fellow attorneys at Greydon, Head & Ritchie. The next significant slice comes from out-of-state supporters from the East Coast.
So I'd say once you consider that over a quarter of Black's fundraising came solely from a check the candidate wrote on the last day of the reporting period to inflate his FEC report numbers, Black's fundraising "prowess" compared to Victoria Wulsin's look noticeably weaker.
Anyone else's thoughts?
Get serious
Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 2:47pm.
Both Vic and Black had incredible fundraising numbers against an incumbent who's more than a couple g's in debt. Nothing more, nothing less.
Portman returns
Submitted by modernesquire on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 6:32pm.
Let's say it all together now. Jean's fundraising numbers are pathetic. They're the kind of numbers from a multi-term incumbent that scream out, "I'm not running again!" Such as the case in Ralph Regula.
This was never Jean Schmidt's seat, she's just been keeping it in Republican hands since Rob Portman left.
Portman can run in 2008 and now be in the public eye for two years before deciding whether to run in 2010 for the U.S. Senate or Governor.
Or if the American people elected the Republican frontrunner "None of the Above" or any of the remaining darkhorses, then Portman could suddenly find himself returning to Washington, family be damned.
I wouldn't be surprised if Rob Portman is taking his old seat back. You shouldn't either.
I wouldn't be surprised
Submitted by Administrator on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 6:44pm.
But remember. Jeanie has got all the money in the world at her disposal. $200k in debt of her own money ain't a thing to Ms. Mean. You've got an interesting theory, and I could see it happening - but she's got the cash to do whatever the heck she pleases.
Portman v. Schmidt: Portman wins
Submitted by modernesquire on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 7:08pm.
Portman can outraise Schmidt's checkwriting, period. Outside of Clermont County, Schmidt has no genuine base. Her Republican base is by default. In a primary fight, Schmidt stands virtually alone. Schmidt loses the money and activist fights in a bruising primary battle.
I guarantee you Republican voters would genuinely rather have Portman than Schmidt. I guarantee you Wulsin and Black would rather have Schmidt, too.
Schmidt is a team player. She carried water for Bob Taft's tax increases for god's sakes. If she got the message that Rob Portman wanted his seat back and the party thought in the long-term it was in their interest for him to have it until he runs for higher office, she'd step aside.
I'm surprised given her lack of fundraising more people aren't thinking about it. After all, what else is Portman going to be able to do to keep his name fresh in the news until 2010 now?
Wow