Ohio Supreme Court Justice French Could Lose for the Wrong Reason

One would think she would lose because of this statement: “‘I am a Republican and you should vote for me. You’re going to hear from your elected officials, and I see a lot of them in the crowd. Let me tell you something: The Ohio Supreme Court is the backstop for all those other votes you are going to cast. Whatever the governor does, whatever your state representative, your state senator does, whatever they do, we are the ones that will decide whether it is constitutional; we decide whether it’s lawful. We decide what it means, and we decide how to implement it in a given case. So, forget all those other votes if you don’t keep the Ohio Supreme Court conservative,’

But she may lose for a different reason: “Republicans are scared that [Democrat John P.] O’Donnell could pull an upset because of a tendency for voters to cast ballots for candidates with familiar names. An O’Donnell already sits on the court — Republican Terrence O’Donnell. The men are not related.

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