On this happy day for so many of us, I'm sitting in the Victoria Wulsin campaign office in Cincinnati, where the question of whether to ask for a recount is being considered. The votes currently in give Jean Schmidt a 2,856-vote lead and a 50.63% to 49.37% margin of victory. We're trying to get a handle on how many thousand provisional ballots remain here in Ohio's most conservative district, many of them the products of last-ditch and last-minute voting restrictions thrown up by Republicans. It was one heck of a campaign -- we surpassed Paul Hackett's 2005 numbers, and I'm kind of in awe of some of the things that our low-level field staffers and fundraising people pulled off. Lisa Sherman, our Deputy Campaign Manager on loan to us from Susan Davis and Emily's List, is amazingly good, and you'll probably hear more insights of hers in this space over the next few months. But barring something unexpected, it looks like we lost.
Without further ado, I'd like to present you with the final results for the candidates funded by our readers in the 2006 elections. It's one hell of a table to look at, and it awaits you below the fold.
