From the monthly archives: September 2010
If you listen to the MSM coverage of politics, you’d get the impressive that voters despise Democrats and love Republicans. The only problem is that even likely voter models show that’s not the case.
Check out this graph from this post at Pollster.com:
While it’s true that the Democratic brand has a net negative favorability rating, the GOP brand is twice as worse off than it was in 2006, which is why they tried to rebrand their ideology under the Tea Party in the first place in the worst marketing failure since New Coke and Crystal [...]
Full Story... →Not the other way around. And I fully support Yvonne Cionwell for District 7.
Full Story... →Boy, John Kasich sure can talk about education well without saying anything substantively, can’t he? Noticed he didn’t really ever say what his plan for education was… (and for good reason!)
Here’s what John Kasich says on his campaign website about education:
John Kasich and Mary Taylor believe that we need to improve education in Ohio and that we must:
Set higher standards. Fund students, not just buildings. Reduce spending so we can start reducing taxes. Use more technology in the classroom to leverage students’ greater use of computers at home. Reward excellent teachers and hold all teachers [...]
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I am more than a little surprised that Kasich’s statement that “We didn’t lose jobs to China” in last week’s debate has not gotten more attention.
If for any other reason, it was the first time Kasich attempted to be a free trade apologist. Either that or his head is in the sand. Either way, such an event is worth noting.
Until that moment, John Kasich has been an unapologetic advocate for free trade. The difference between the two could not be clearer, nor can how Kasich’s free trade record in Congress has hurt Ohio now:
Ohio lost 49,886 [...]
Full Story... →My first internship in politics was with Dennis Kucinich’s primary challenge to Mary Rose Oakar in 1988, which Dennis lost 75-25. I’ll never forget what Dennis said at the start of his concession that night. “I’d rather lose by this kind of margin than by one point.” Wisdom never knew such brevity.
Thus, as I recover from my campaign, I’m looking for silver linings in the results. There were 6 precincts in Old Brooklyn that immediately jumped out as the highest turnout precincts, nearly double the average turnout across the entire 7th district. Largely because of the now overturned [...]
Full Story... →Jon Keeling is really starting to lose his mind. Today, he claimed, with no evidence, that the Strickland campaign just flat out “made up” an internal poll showing them behind by three points in order to have something to say about yesterday’s Quinnipiac. It’s, of course, totally untrue.
Jai Chabria, a Kasich campaign worker, and the “other man” in Kasich’s “two-man” Columbus Lehman Brothers office, also tweeted that the poll was a complete fiction.
The only problem with this theory is that Matt Naugle wrote about an internal Democratic poll showing [...]
Full Story... →Remember back in May when Republican candidate Steve Stivers attempted to walk back his response on a 9/12 Tea Party group’s questionnaire that asked if Steve Stivers would support repealing the 17th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that allows for the direct election of the Senate by the people? (If not, click on the link.)
Well, what about the rest of that questionnaire?
Full Story... →Apparently, Mikey no likely Cordray’s ad. I haven’t even SEEN the ad, or DeWine’s criticism of it before I got Cordray’s campaign spokesman’s response to DeWine:
“When it comes to negative ads, Mike DeWine is a pro. Mike DeWine ran commercials showing fake, computer-generated footage of the World Trade Center on fire in his failed 2006 re-election campaign, and has proceeded to attack and distort Attorney General Cordray’s strong record of accomplishments since day one of this election.
“It’s funny that Mike DeWine thinks our commercial is negative when the only reference to the former Senator is that he spent [...]
Full Story... →Meet Republican State Senator Bob Gibbs. He’s running against Congressman Zach Space because the last Republican Space crushed decided he really didn’t want to go through with a recount to win the nomination for “token GOPer to get beat by Space.”
So, Gibbs got the honor. Not a single pundit. Not one. Has listed this race as a race likely to flip. It hasn’t made it on the Top 50 of anyone’s radar screen.
So what does the NRCC do? They call Gibbs a “Young Gun.”
After the last reporting FEC reporting deadline, Gibbs was facing [...]
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