Jean Schmidt's opponent McEwen wins GOP straw poll

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http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060219/NEWS01/602190374/-1/CINCI

McEwen wins GOP straw poll
Blackwell fares well, Schmidt not so well

BY HOWARD WILKINSON | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Over pancakes and bacon Saturday morning, more than 200 Republicans from Hamilton County's northeast communities heard from the two candidates battling for the 2nd Congressional District GOP nomination, and a slight majority ended up choosing Bob McEwen over the incumbent, Jean Schmidt.

And, in the same straw poll, the northeast Hamilton County Republicans chose the hometown candidate for governor, J. Kenneth Blackwell, over Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro by a ratio of 2-to-1.

Nearly 220 Republicans battled snow-covered roads to get to the Sharonville Convention Center for the Northeast Republican Club's pancake breakfast and straw poll held each year around the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president.

Only members of the club, though, cast ballots, and 53 percent of them went for former congressman McEwen over Schmidt, who won the seat in a special congressional election last summer...

[wakeme2008]

1. This Dems will laff his ass off

if McEwen beats the witch from hell Schmidt. :)

[PDittie]

2. Too bad Paul Hackett isn't going to be the one

to knock that crazy woman out (figuratively speaking only, of course).

Hey, I almost typed 'off' ...

[Mz Pip]

3. I would love to see her lose

the primary. That would be sweet. Then she'd have to get it that even Repbulicans think she's a mistake.

Mz Pip
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