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Looks like Chris Redfern has been working the phones with a lot of people other than me.
The theory further went that as titular head of the party, Brown, who faces re-election in two years, would replace Redfern with trusted politico and former union boss John Ryan, who works for Brown.
In the insular ODP world that allows the AFL-CIO to give us Rob Burch, Lee Fisher, Marc Dann, etc., I suppose making John Ryan the new ODP chair makes all the sense in the world. In a world where Democrats actually win elections, it makes no sense [...]
Full Story... →I’m starting to understand why the ODP’s field operation, by all accounts (including mine) a pretty good one, failed to deliver the Democratic turnout required in Tuesday’s close election to secure victory for Ted Strickland.
When I first heard the story of ODP paid canvassers bouncing checks, my first thought was….checks? Who the hell pays street money in checks? Most folks who are available to do this work, late in a campaign, do not have bank accounts. They are unemployed, a street money campaign gig is often the most money they will make that month, maybe all year. And [...]
Full Story... →In the last few years, I’ve really warmed to Ted Strickland, like everyone does. I’m really saddened by his defeat, and I wish him and Frances nothing but the best. However, Ted has to be handed some serious responsibility for his loss, and consequently, the loss of every statewide office in the state. So what’s that responsibility?
Ted ran a great campaign, no doubt, in an impossible environment. You can quibble with a few decisions here and there, but overall, it was beyond professional – any statewide candidate, anywhere, would kill to have that operation. The problem, as has always [...]
Full Story... →I’ve gotten some pretty substantial blow back over my phone call yesterday with ODP Chairman Chris Redfern. I mean, guys, gimme a break, I just reported the call!
It is news that Chris Redfern’s only call to an Ohio blogger yesterday was me. Well, the phone call yesterday was spin. It wasn’t a scoop. I just reported the spin, which suggests Redfern is terrified of losing his job. He should be, given the result.
The ODP operation in 2010 was probably the best mid-term grassroots effort I’ve ever seen in Ohio. It failed. Is it fair to blame Redfern [...]
Full Story... →First of all….nice touch, Mr. Chairman. This is how it’s done. Everyone gets kicked in the teeth, is feeling low, and the day after the election, the state chair is making calls to give folks a pep talk. Bravo. Someone tell Lee Fisher that.
Redfern basically echoed this post, to say this result was not as bad as it’s made out to be. (a post which I serendipitously published minutes before he called). To quote, “you know what the day after election day is? Wednesday.” Redfern said that the problem in 1994 was “institutional”, referring to how close ODP [...]
Full Story... →First things first. I’m terrible at predicting election results, not gonna deny it. “If Jennifer Brunner files, she wins,” is a line I must have written a dozen times leading up to the US Senate primary. I was wrong. I was banking on Jennifer catching fire online, and she didn’t. One good week of online fundraising might have won her the primary.
Failing to do so is the Brunner campaign’s biggest self-inflicted wound – they left a lot of money on the table, and let a lot of us down. I still have no good answer for this [...]
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... →Looked up to see the tail end of this. Glad someone got it on YouTube:
I love that Ohio dems are picking this up and running with it by using it against them. I earlier commented that I thought it was a good ad for the online base to get them all fired up but it wouldn’t play well with the public at large. Someone was listening.
It seems Ohio Democrats are willing to put it in the larger public’s consciousness in order for it to backfire on them. Good stuff!
Full Story... →What I’ve been suspecting for some time is coming to pass, as Modern notes – Republicans have peaked.? They peaked right about the time of Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts.? My theory is that the new media cycle has hyper accelerated the over-hyped 1994 dynamic within the electorate (which didn’t peak in 1994 until about October.)? And that the passage of health care reform after that peak in 2010 brought the wave to a halt at the last stroke of Barack Obama’s pen on the bill.
For Democrats in Ohio, this means the biggest remaining risk for our ticket [...]
Full Story... →Multiple sources are confirming that within the first hour of Brunner’s email to her supporters, ODP Executive Committee members’ email inboxes are being hammered with not dozens, but hundreds of emails asking them to stay out of the US Senate primary in Ohio.? By the time this thing finishes rolling out, I would not be surprised if some email accounts literally get shut down.
Ted Strickland needs to step in right now and bring this endorsement process to a halt.
Ted’s about to lose half of his political party right before a tough re-election battle.? That’s the short term.? Medium [...]
Full Story... →ODP invited us bloggers to join Chris Redfern on a conference call this afternoon, which is awesome. ?I feel a detente of sorts beginning to thaw across the ODP-blogger landscape, largely because of how this primary season is shaping up. ?That’s great news for the fall.
I’m not sure why there isn’t more of this type of outreach, other than an old, tired, and now cliche insistence on continuing an arms length relationship between bloggers and ODP. ?Primaries tend to exacerbate that arms length relationship. ?Which brings me to my question for Chris Redfern on today’s call.
Will ODP, Redfern, [...]
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