From the monthly archives: July 2010
Jack Torry wrote a column in the Dayton Daily News this weekend asking why “nobody seems to want to give Fisher any money.” Look, Rob Portman is a Bush Republican. That means he knows how to raise special interest money better than any incumbent in Congress (actual fact about Portman’s campaign.) He also had no primary.
Lee had a competitive primary in which he spent a considerable amount of his money. Of course, the first quarterly report after the primary is going to show a big cash-on-hand gap.
But did you know that Fisher’s fundraising more [...]
Full Story... →“Stop talking about Lehman Brothers! Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry…”
“It…. was….. two-man office…. in Columbus! AAaaaarrgggghhhh!”
“KASICH ANGRY!!! KASICH SMASH!!!”
This is pretty much the reaction I witnessed from a room full of people had when they saw the ad this weekend while my wife and I were out on “date night.”
The ad is running in only Cincinnati and Columbus. Both should be Kasich’s base already. The campaign is begging its supporters to give it feedback.
This ad doesn’t seem to make Kasich likeable to those [...]
Full Story... →I think I said a couple of nice things about Green Party Candidate for Governor Dennis Spisak in my last post. I said a couple of nasty-but-true things too. But I made a effort to try to keep the post positive.
Dennis didn’t seem to take it that way.
He posted a mediocre and less-than-relevant response over at Progress Ohio (aka: his campaign blog) the next day that basically attacked Plunderbund for being a Democrat blog and then proceeded to follow up in the comments to attack Modern in a ridiculously childish way for having worked for Strickland…
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Full Story... →So, John Kasich’s first television ad is a pathetic attempt to downplay his role in Lehman Brothers. But this presents a weird double-standard for Kasich. On one hand, he likes to pretend he was barely above the janitor that cleaned out CEO Fuld’s shredded documents at night (even though Kasich was paid in half a million in bonuses alone), but then Kasich says Ohioans need him because he was a “successful business leader” who creates jobs?
Which is it? Was Kasich a major business figure who created jobs nationwide, or was he just some poor schlep who tried to avoid [...]
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For some reason, this ad has trouble loading from Kasich’s Youtube channel.
First, let me just say this ad is not good. Kasich looks angry, talks too fast, and it makes him sound defensive. I don’t understand why Kasich would be talking about Lehman Brothers unless his internal polling has shown what other independent polling (Quinnipiac and PPP) has shown that it’s substantially hurt his favorability ratings which will make it harder for him to move ahead in the polls.
Kasich’s campaign manager tries to put some amazing spin about this ad on the campaign’s blog:
John [...]
Full Story... →The Columbus Dispatch’s Daily Briefing Blog reports that John Kasich is starting to whittle down his warchest even faster with its first television ad buy. The story includes this “I can’t believe we’d be this possibly lucky” preview:
Among other things, the ad, according to a source, could offer a defense of Kasich’s time as a managing director of Lehman Brothers, the failed Wall Street investment firm.
I’m not really going on a limb here. We pretty much already know what Kasich’s response on everything Lehman Brothers is based on his press statements and stump speech on the issue.
Announcing [...]
Full Story... →As my co-bloggers have been reminding me lately, I’ve not been blogging much here at the ol’ PB, lately. Sorry! Being Candidate Man is beginning to take over my life almost entirely. Most of my blogging is now at the campaign site (thoughts on sharing a last name with Frank Russo here, on Harvey Pekar’s death here, and Plain Dealer stupidity here). We’ve got about a month and a half to go before the primary, I feel pretty confident, so the blogging will be even lighter. People have been asking me my thoughts on stuff, though, so [...]
Full Story... →The Carpetblogger is getting so desperate to spin that the environment really is so great for the Republicans, that he’s attacking Chris Redfern over something Redfern never even said.
So did Chris Redfern say he’d be happy to take only two statewide offices in November to the Youngstown Vindicator’s editorial board? No, in fact, he said quite the opposite:
Jon Keeling is just a shameless liar. Redfern goes on to say that:
“We have got so much work to do, but the resources are there” for Democrats to win in November.
A [...]
Full Story... →You know I couldn’t help but look at Keeling’s FEC post today and not think back to how he tried to spin John Kasich’s last campaign finance report (in which Strickland’s CoH advantage grew, Kasich raised less and spent more while Strickland was the only campaign running ads.)
Introducing, JON KEELING’S RULES FOR SPINNING CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTS.
Rule # 1: Cash-on-hand figures matters (if the Republican has the advantage.)
When Stivers has less than a $300k Cash-on-Hand advantage, it’s “Dollar Domination for the Win.” When report after report shows that Ted Strickland has a $2 [...]
Full Story... →The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reports that Ohio’s unemployment rate dropped .2% to 10.5% last month. Because of a number of temporary census jobs that started in May ended last month (jobs I ignored in May because of their temporary nature), Ohio technically shows a net job loss. However, if you factor out the temporary census jobs, you’ll see that private sector hiring accelerated from May.
Yesterday, John Kasich campaigned with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in Dayton. Kasich brashly said (with no plan of his own):
Kasich, a former Columbus-area [...]
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