Thank God

Get a moderate democrat in there to represent the vast, vast majority of moderate democrats in OHIO instead of such a left wingnut who has just gone over the cliff...

Kucinich is an embarressement to the democratic party and apparently is more interested in representing himself than the democrats in his district.

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by: bonncaruso @ Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 07:16:48 AM UTC

Semi agree

It is not a moderate Democrat that is needed to replace Kucinich, just a sane one.

Dennis does appear to have lost his connection with his district in an attempt to try and rally around his own special causes. That's just not the kind of good governance we stand for.

26, Male, Democrat, TX-26

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by: trowaman @ Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:18:54 PM UTC

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Dennis

I would never say that anyone is two peanut butter sandwiches shy of a full picnic.

Nope just couldn't say that.

Nope.

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by: ohio_anon @ Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 13:22:16 PM UTC

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Blame the Ohio GOP in the Legislature

By quarantining as many Democratic leaning voters as possible into as few Districts as possible, the result has been "congresscritters for life" with Districts that they couldn't lose if they tried (and believe, one might think that they have at times.)

There have been votes from members of the Ohio delegation against stem cell research, for the "Patriot Act" and campaigning for a flag burning amendment. The influence that could and should have come from seniority has been squandered. Go figure.

In 2010, we're gonna lose one US house seat for sure, two probably.

In the past, ODP has wimped out and allowed the GOP to [insert scatological reference here] our state.

In 2012 we should do one of two things:

1. Stick it to them as deeply as possible. No more rolling over. If the citizens of our state want political gerrymandering, let's do it to the max.

OR

2. REALLY devise fair and competitive Districts and create a reformed process to guarantee them for the future.

What we should NOT do is another WIMPY compromise where ODP says "OK, Ohio is losing two seats, so we lose one and you lose one." That's "compromise" that serves no one.

In 2006, more Ohioans voted for Democratic US House candidates than GOPers and yet they controlled 11 out of 18 seats. That's nuts.

I say "Fish or cut bait."

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by: ohio_anon @ Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:37:39 PM UTC

He must be resigning

There's no way all these people would jump into the race unless they thought he was quitting. These are reasonably plugged in, well known folks. They wouldn't do this just for the hell of losing.

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by: ColoDem @ Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 17:53:36 PM UTC

Not necessarily

One or more of them could be Kucinich allies who are watering down the field and making the path to plurality easier for Kucinich.  It's been done before, both in primaries and general elections.

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by: Lucas O'Connor @ Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 18:11:56 PM UTC

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Right, like in IL-03

I'm not sure that's the case here, though -- at least for Cimperman.  Kucinich's office blasted him in a statement, I believe.  (I think Lipinski has been hands-off with his "allies")

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by: James L. @ Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 19:07:47 PM UTC

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I agree

That none of these seem to be obvious Kucinich proxies.  But on the other hand, noce you get past a certain point, they clearly aren't in it to win.  Either they're just trying to make a point or they've got something cooking behind the scenes.

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by: Lucas O'Connor @ Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 19:55:04 PM UTC

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