From the monthly archives: July 2010
Apparently, John Kasich’s bible study group never discussed modesty when he was there. From the New Philadelphia Times Reporter (which covered Kasich apparently talking to two people):
“The more [the people of Ohio] get to know me…
the more they will like me…”
Kasich predicted.
Adding… “or else.”
KASICH ANGRY! KASICH SMASH!
And yes, John Kasich does refer to himself in the third person, even when he’s in Bruce Banner mode, right, Cleveland Plain Dealer?
“There is this perception in some quarters that Kasich is not available. You think I [...]
Full Story... →Funny you should ask.
Full Story... →According the the Cleveland Plain Dealer, only 83,000 private-sector jobs were created in the nation in June. Of those, nearly 11% were created in Ohio alone as Ohio created8,900 new private-sector jobs last month (for the reading impaired, that’s non-seasonal/non-census jobs).
Once you factor out census workers, Ohio saw its private sector job creation increase by a factor of thirty from May after a sharp drop after April’s national leading private-sector job growth. Ohio was one of only twenty states that saw statistically significant changes in their unemployment rate.
According to this tweet from the conservative [...]
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Gallup’s latest generic congressional ballot was released this morning. Just look at that graph. Support for the Democratic candidate has never been higher, while support for the Republicans has not been lower since Gallup started tracking in March.
The reason?
[I]ndependents are primarily responsible for Democrats’ improved positioning. Thirty-nine percent of independents favor the Democratic candidate in their district, up from 34% — although slightly more, 43%, still favor the Republican.
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According to a USA Today/Gallup poll in June, 55% of Americans were in favor of legislation expanding government regulation [...]
Full Story... →Pretty sure this isn’t a headline Ohio Republicans expected out of John Kasich’s first campaign ad.
Full Story... →John Kasich picked up a very unsurprising endorsement today from the NFIB – a very-Republican-leaning group of small-business lobbyists.
According to Forbes, Kasich made a pledge during the endorsement event saying “he will allow small business to appoint an adviser to his cabinet if he’s elected.”
I’m going to assume the wording of this statement is a mistake on the part of the author of the article who I can probably forgive for not understanding that cabinet appointments in Ohio are made by the Governor not by external lobbying groups seeking influence within the executive branch.
It’s a [...]
Full Story... →Seriously, how can a campaign say this to the Plain Dealer:
"A proven job creator, Mr. Ganley knows the ins and outs of balanced budgets and understands that more government spending isn’t the solution to our economic woes," Snyder said in an emailed statement.
After praising the success of his opponent’s “Cash for Clunkers” program that generated him nearly 1,000 auto sales?
I miss the owl.
Full Story... →I think Lee Fisher is getting his groove back.
Today, Lee Fisher challenged former Bush Trade Representative Rob Portman to seven debates throughout Ohio: Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Youngstown, somewhere in Appalachia, Cleveland, and Toledo.
Here’s a snippet from Fisher’s letter to Portman:
Just last week I met with workers in the Mahoning Valley. And it’s there you can see the choice voters have this November – the choice between going back to the failed trade policies that sent our jobs overseas and the investments we need to make in creating new jobs right here in Ohio.
At Delphi, thousands of [...]
Full Story... →So, I’m still pouring through the campaign finance reports for the legislative races, but I started with one of my local State House candidates, Bruce Carter.
Bruce ran for the 12th District Court of Appeals in 2008 where he won two of the eight counties getting 42% of a vote—which is above the average Democratic performance in this region of Ohio.
Two years ago, Bruce’s current opponent, State Rep. Courtney Combs had a Democratic opponent who raised less than $4,000 for the entire cycle and got 43% of the vote. There’s every reason to believe that even in [...]
Full Story... →If there was ever a Republican candidate for Governor that should appeal to former head of the now defunct (I believe) Ohio Taxpayers Association Scott Pullins, at least on paper, it would be John Kasich.
And yet, while Matt Naugle bites his tongue, Pullins goes there on Kasich’s first ad introducing himself to Cincinnati and Columbus voters:
So the brain surgeons that are running the Kasich campaign have finally figured out that millions of dollars of unanswered negative campaign commercials might be hurting John Kasich’s campaign for governor. Congratulation you handsome fellows and welcome to Politics [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
PPP poll puts political environment in perspective; this ain’t 1994.
There are many reasons to believe that this current environment isn’t a Republican version of 2008 or a repeat of 1994.
Lack of large-scale retirements. Despite defending exactly the same number of seats as they did in 1994, the Democrats are facing substantially less open seat races. While there have been a few surprise high-profile retirements (Obey, Bayh, etc.), it’s not nearly the scope we saw going into 1994. Republicans as an unknown quantity. In 1994, only folks who remember President Eisenhower could recall what it was like when the Republicans controlled Congress (when the party was vastly different, [...]
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