2006 United States Senate election in Ohio and Talk:Shen Kuo: Difference between pages

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The '''Ohio Senate election of 2006''' will be held on [[November 7]], [[2006]]. Whoever is elected will serve between [[January 3]], [[2007]] and [[January 3]], [[2013]]. The incumbent [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Senator, [[Mike DeWine|R. Michael DeWine]] has low approval ratings[http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2006/100USSenatorApproval060126State.htm] and the current [[Coingate]] scandal involving the [[Ohio Republican Party]] could hurt his re-election chances. Democratic hopes have also been raised by the the unpopularity of Republican Governor [[Bob Taft]]. The senator's son, [[Pat DeWine|R. Patrick DeWine]], finished a distant fourth place in the contest for the Republican nomination for the [[United States House of Representatives, Ohio District 2|Second Congressional District]], suggesting that DeWine's influence may be waning. DeWine will face a tough primary challenge from more conservative Republicans, such as [[William G. Pierce]], who are unhappy with his liberal stances including his role as one of the [[Gang of 14]] who intervened to stop a showdown over judicial nominees.

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[[Paul Hackett]], an Iraq War veteran who has been critical of President Bush's foreign policy, announced on February 13, 2006 that he would withdraw from the race.

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===Democrats===

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*[[Sherrod Brown]] - US Congressman from [[United States House of Representatives, Ohio District 13|Ohio's 13th district]], former [[Ohio Secretary of State]]

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==GA Nomination==

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===Suggestions===

Not running

*[[Paul Hackett]] - Iraq war veteran and unsuccessful candidate for U.S. representative in 2005

*[[Jerry Springer]] - talk show host and former mayor of Cincinnati

The complaints I am voicing here are pretty much the same as in the last two articles (Su Song and Zhang Heng), with an addtional issue with images.

===Republicans===

*You need to indicate the name of the volumes in addition to the number for the Needham references.

*[[Mike DeWine]] - Incumbent senator

*You should add at least two more images if possible.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Smith#David_R._Smith David R. Smith] - Previous candidate in 2005 in Ohio (2nd Congressional District), 2004 in Tennessee, and 2000 in Utah. Loser in all previous campaigns.

There are several problems with the prose in a few sections.

*[[William G. Pierce]] - Engineer, conservative known for detail-oriented solutions

*Unlike the other two, this article only has a lot of parantheses in the quotations. Nevertheless, I still think many of these should be removed. I don't think that their removal will affact the integrity of the quotations.

*You are mixing Wade-Giles and Pinyin romanization. The majority of the article is in Pinyin, but you must convert the Wade-Giles into Pinyin before the article is passed. If you need assistance in this regard please let me know, as I can help convert the stuff.

*I also feel that this article is too dependant on large block quotes. I think that the quotes should either be shortened so that they do not comprise the vast majority of The Scientific Writing and Theory sections and Philosophy section, or that these sections could be expanded to reduce their dependance on the quotations. Having the large quotes in the writing section, is in my opinion not an issue, that the topic addresses the writing itself.[[User:Zeus1234|Zeus1234]] 04:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

::Ok, I have indicated the names of the Needham volumes, added two more images, fixed many of the parentheses, and along with getting rid of some of the block quotes, provided more extensive prose to explain the ones I decided to keep. I also got rid of any random Wade-giles spelling, although the ones I have decided to keep are from direct quotations of Needham's books, and should not be reworded for sake of faithfulness to the actual quotations.[[User:PericlesofAthens|PericlesofAthens]] 03:50, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

:::The improvements are good. The article now meritcs GA status. Congratulations![[User:Zeus1234|Zeus1234]] 05:40, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

==Failed FAC==

''Not running:''

Ok, this is a great article, but the reason it has failed to be promoted for FA status is because one had problem with quotes of Shen's writing being in the article (saying that it added nothing to the article). I completely disagree. However, it just dawned on me, this entire time I could have easily placed all of the quotes in the [[Dream Pool Essays]] article that I created. That would have been a reasonable compromise. I will do that now.--[[User:PericlesofAthens|PericlesofAthens]] 23:33, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

* John Mitchel - Retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel, systems analyst, and frequent candidate. On March 10, 2006, Mitchel announced that he was dropping out of the race. [http://www.reformcongress.com/]

==Opinion Polls==

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| [http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/State%20Polls/February%202006/Ohio%20Senate%20February.htm Rasmussen]

| February 18, 2006

| Sherrod Brown - 37%

| '''Mike DeWine - 46%'''

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| [http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/State%20Polls/January%202006/Ohio%20Senator%20January%204.htm Rasmussen]

| January 7, 2006

| Sherrod Brown - 40%

| '''Mike DeWine - 45%'''

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| [http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2005/Ohio%20Senate%20December%202.htm Rasmussen]

| December 2, 2005

| Sherrod Brown - 41%

| '''Mike DeWine - 43%'''

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|[http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-flash05a.html?project=elections06-ft&h=495&w=778&hasAd=1&mod=blogs Zogby]

| October 31, 2005

| '''Sherrod Brown - 40.0%'''

| Mike DeWine - 36.7%

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== See also ==

*[[Ohio gubernatorial election, 2006]]

==External links==

*[http://www.mikedewine.com/ Mike DeWine for Senate]

*[http://www.pierceforsenate.com/ William Pierce for Senate]

*[http://davidrsmith.us/ David R Smith for Senate]

*[http://www.sherrodbrown.com/ Sherrod Brown for Senate]

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| next= [[Ohio U.S. Senate election, 2010|2010]]

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:It's really stupid that one person can entirely derail a nomination. I personally think that while some of the quotes could be moved over, some of them should stay in the article. [[User:Zeus1234|Zeus1234]] 00:02, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

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::I think a good compromise would be to pare them down a lot, and keep them directly relevant to the subject at hand. (Where's the failed FAC tag? It provides a handy link to the nomination..) --[[User:Fang Aili|Fang Aili]] ^{[[User talk:Fang Aili|<font color="green">talk</font>]]} 03:13, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

:::Regardless, all of the quotes have been moved into the [[Dream Pool Essays]] article, and any valuable information from the quotes have been converted into prose explanations.--[[User:PericlesofAthens|PericlesofAthens]] 04:03, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

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