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STATEWIDE RACES
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Ohio Auditor candidate Seth Morgan and his wife, Debra, talk as they wait for election returns. Morgan, a state representative from Huber Heights, lost his statewide run.
Tea Party’s influence ‘overrated’ in Husted, Morgan primary races
Morgan, endorsed by Tea Party, loses auditor bid; GOP’s Husted wins secretary of state nod.
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By William Hershey,
Columbus Bureau
Updated 4:08 AM Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Landslide Republican primary victories by state Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, and Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost on Tuesday, May 4, indicated that expectations about the Tea Party’s influence were overrated, political scientist John Green said Tuesday, May 4.
“Activism doesn’t necessarily turn into votes,” said Green, director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron.
Husted was crushing former Ashtabula County Auditor Sandra O’Brien, 68 percent to 32 percent, to win the GOP’s secretary of state nomination, while Yost was thumping state Rep. Seth Morgan, R-Huber Heights, 64 percent to 36 percent, to win the auditor’s nomination with 84 percent of precincts reporting.
The state GOP endorsed both Husted, a former Ohio House speaker, and Yost, a former Delaware County auditor.
Morgan was the only statewide candidate endorsed by the Ohio Tea Party political action committee, while O’Brien also claimed strong Tea Party support.
Husted will face Democrat Maryellen O’Shaughnessy, the Franklin County clerk of courts, in the general election, while Yost will take on Democrat David Pepper, a Hamilton County commissioner.
Both races have significance beyond the duties of each office.
The secretary of state is Ohio’s chief elections officer, while the auditor audits all public offices.
The winners in each race will join the governor on the five-member Apportionment Board that will draw new state legislative districts based on the results of the 2010 census. The board also includes a legislator from each party.
The party that controls two of the three statewide offices on the board will control how the 99 House districts and 33 Senate districts are drawn.
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