{"id":7348,"date":"2012-03-08T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T08:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2012-03-08T00:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T08:01:48","slug":"dennis-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/dennis-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a story that largely fell below the radar on Tuesday night, Dennis Kucinich lost the primary election for the Democratic nomination in the new Ninth Congressional District, created when Republicans gerrymandered him and Marcy Kaptur into the same district.  It was not close.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"8kucinich-and-kaptur\"In a primary faceoff between two veteran Democratic incumbents, voters in Ohio delivered a victory to Representative Marcy Kaptur, a progressive from Toledo<\/strong>, over Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, leaving him without a seat in Congress for the first time in 16 years<\/p>\n

Mr. Kucinich conceded just past midnight Wednesday. With nearly 85 percent of the vote counted, Ms. Kaptur led Mr. Kucinich, her colleague and frequent ally<\/strong> in the House, by about 24 points in the race to represent Ohio\u2019s recently redrawn Ninth Congressional District.  <\/p>\n

The outcome was largely expected. Mr. Kucinich, an antiwar populist from Cleveland who has run for president twice, lost his district when state lawmakers redrew the electoral map after Ohio, whose population has been dwindling, lost two Congressional seats last year. The new district \u2014 a skinny strip of land that covers parts of five counties from Cleveland to Toledo<\/strong> \u2014 contained more of Ms. Kaptur\u2019s old territory than Mr. Kucinich\u2019s, and Mr. Kucinich had been struggling to win over voters in areas beyond his traditional stronghold of Cleveland. <\/p>\n

It is not clear whether Mr. Kucinich will try to run for public office somewhere else. After his district was eliminated last year, he visited Washington State to explore his options<\/strong>, though his spokesman, Andy Juniewicz, said that Mr. Kucinich had said he \u201cnever had any intention of leaving Cleveland.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>] <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Dennis\u2019 defeat is a terrible loss.  Marcy\u2019s defeat would have been a terrible loss as well.  We need them both.  When Dennis went to Washington State, I had hope he would try to establish himself there.  I understand that the new district was set up to take Dennis out, at the specific request of John Boehner.  Perhaps Dennis will move to his district and take on Agent Orange in two years.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a story that largely fell below the radar on Tuesday night, Dennis Kucinich lost the primary election for the Democratic nomination in the new Ninth Congressional District, created when Republicans gerrymandered him and Marcy Kaptur into the same district.  It was not close. In a primary faceoff between two veteran Democratic incumbents, voters in […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}