Reply #18: sorry about that -- should have looked more closely.

[KaliTracy]

A couple of weird numbers in looking at the primary/general election -- but all numbers are weird to me -- I'm not saying there is anything to this -- the spread of districts the Dems won (if you add both Dem candidate numbers up in the primary) to the ones Blackwell won are pretty consistant -- a few went from a Democrat lean in the primary to Republican -- but the Republicans probably didn't vote in the primaries in the same numbers. Especially in Mahoning County

1998
Primary
Democrat Votes (added together)...... 48,653
Blackwell Votes........................8,667

General Election
Charleta Tavares......................49,689
Blackwell.............................31,151



I'll stop looking at spread sheets now.