Sunday, December 26, 2010

Final vote totals: Darke County delivered 12th highest percentage for Kasich

Here are some final numbers for the political junkies. Out of Ohio's 88 counties, 22 of them gave John Kasich at least 60% of the vote. Darke County delivered the 12th highest percentage with 63.14%. Kasich's strongholds were west central Ohio, the Cincinnati area, and north of Columbus (where Kasich resides).

Only 6 counties delivered more than 60% of the vote for incumbent Ted Strickland: Lucas, Cuyahoga, Trumbull, Mahoning, Athens, and Scioto. Strickland won Franklin and Montgomery Counties by modest margins, but voter turnout in Montgomery County was relatively low.

For those of you who are interested, click on the thumbnail to the right to see the Columbus Dispatch breakdown of the entire state, county-by-county.

21 comments:

  1. Let's hold that thought for later this year when his promised spending cuts and consolidations become realities. Kasich's upcoming actions, good or bad, have been blessed by over 63% of Darke County voters, and that is fact.

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  2. I want to see how he is going to cover a 10 billion dollar deficit and "eliminate state income taxes" at the same time.
    Let me be the first to say the income tax isn't going away.
    I wonder what his excuse will be?

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  3. I'm excited about school district consolidation. Versailles and Greenville need to merge. Average out the good with the bad and everyone wins.

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  4. Average the good with the bad and everyone wins?!?!? LOL (i'm sure the GOOD DO NOT agree)

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  5. As long as Greenville doesn't want to "merge" with my school, great! I would home school before I would raise my kid by CURRENT "gville standards".

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  6. I am totally amazed that this guy was part of the Wall Street financial crisis and we elected him Governor of our state. Everyone should read the book To Big To Fail by Andrew Sorkin. If you read this book you would not have given this man you vote.

    If he makes the same decisions with our state as he made on Wall Street we are truly in for a rude awakening.

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  7. I am totally amazed that we elected this man for our Governor given the mess that he helped create on Wall Street. You would have voted differently had you read the book To Big To Fail by Andrew Sorkin.

    Hopefully he will do a better job for our state than he did on Wall Street

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  8. Given the job he did on Wall Street I am truly concerned. I can't believe we voted him in for Governor.

    Everyone should read To Big To Fail by Andrew Sorkin I think you would have thought twice about voting for him

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  9. I won't be reading any books by Andrew Sorkin, no matter how many comments you leave.

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  10. You non-tea baggers are going to have to learn that cuts need to be made. If Greenville and Versailles merge, so be it. You can't have it all. We already pay too many taxes. These government entitlements need to stop. I can barely survive off my disability.

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  11. Let me know when our next governor puts us in a ten billion dollar hole like Strickland did. Then he tried to "hide" it. Yeah thats responsible govt huh? Kasich helped balance the federal budget, what has Strickland done?

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  12. Everyone is for cuts in government spending-but not in those programs and services that they benefit from. Everyone is for cutting the wages of public employees-but not those employees that are their friends, relatives and neighbors. Finally, everyone knows and demands that taxes should be reduced and they would be willing to give up any service that they do not benefit from. It is all very simple.

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  13. Why would Versailles, or any other school for that matter, want to merge with Greenville? To guarantee never passing another levy? To take on crumbling schools while giving up their new one?

    I can understand many poor, small schools possibly having to merge at some point, but the new governor would be one-term if he truly pushed for decent rural schools to be merged with crummy metro schools.

    Get real! Versailles merge with Greenville? No thanks. Keep your downward spiral to yourselves. We'll keep investing in our kids education while you do whatever it is you do.

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  14. Anonymous at 9:21pm who did you vote for?

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  15. The point is that no one will want to merge with districts like Greenville. With the attitude of the Greenville taxpayers, and the fact that if merged with a smaller district they (Greenville voters) would be the majority, why would anyone want to merge with them and be set up for failure. Greenville has a lot more problems than just their schools. Sounds like bussing back in the 60's. That didn't work either, it only messed up the good schools. That's why charter schools are becoming more popular (and I am not for more charter schools).

    Sorry folks, but like a lot of other political sound bites, merging rural schools with city schools won't happen unless a lot of politicians decide they don't want to be reelected.

    Figure out a solution to the problem schools but don't mess up the good ones trying.

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  16. "I'm excited about school district consolidation. Versailles and Greenville need to merge. Average out the good with the bad and everyone wins."

    But it never happens quite like that, the bad end up dragging the good down with them, then you end up with one big mediocre district at best instead of one excellent and one poor.
    That is another example of failed liberal policies.

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  17. Guest#1 is a teacher at gcs and thinks Greenville will bring down Versailles.

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  18. Doesn't matter what Guest #1 does for a living. He/She is right. Merging Greenville with any county school would bring that county school down. Between discipline problems and negative taxpayers, Greenville would be the ruin of any other county school district it would merge with.

    Greenville needs to fix it's own problems. We've invested in our schools and our students. You won't face your own problems so you want to make everyone else lower the bar too. You need to fix your own problems and face the fact that it won't get better in Greenville until you step up to the plate and invest in your future. That means with your wallets and with good parenting. One without the other is futile.

    Greenville brings nothing to the table.

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  19. No, I am not a teacher or affiliated with any school district.
    In any case is that your rebuttal? associate me with the schools?
    What I wrote was the truth, sorry if that stings.

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  20. You people need to worry more about the kids rather than yourselves. Remember George Bush no child left behind? Integrating kids with disabilities with the rest of the kids. Some say that hurts all of the kids. I say integrating Greenville and Versailles is the economic equivalent. When this happens remember who you voted for.

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  21. School Kitty - Why not Greenville/Arcanum?, Greenville/Ansonia?, Greenville/Mississiniwa?

    Greenville/Versailles? This will never happen. Keep dreaming. Face the facts. You need to clean up Greenville and support your own instead of trying to bring others down with you. Your energy would be better served trying to improve Greenville rather than bringing down Versailles and other county districts.

    And yes, I am worried about the kids. That's why I am so against combining with Greenville. No benefit to the Versailles kids. What would the Versailles kids get? Lower test scores? Dilapidated facilities? SO's?

    No thank you! Fix your own problems!

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