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Anastasia thinks so.
He’s got baggage. He’s coated with toxins left over from this year’s Democratic Senate primary, and he should not be pooh-poohing this as unimportant. It killed Ted Strickland’s political career and it could kill his.
Unfortunately, right before the May 2 primary election, Brown released a statement smearing Jennifer Brunner by telling a lie about her: that she had run a negative primary campaign.
This was especially outraging to many grassroots activists because Lee Fisher HAD been running a negative campaign. In the several weeks prior to Sherrod’s statement….
I’m not sure this will stick that [...]
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... →Looks like ya’ll are gonna lose more than Lee’s state business, don’t it.
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... →We’re entering Rob Burch futility here. It’s worth transcribing, with asides in parentheses, to show just how polar opposite this ad is to Lee’s entire rationale for being our nominee for US Senate instead of Jennifer Brunner.
I’m Lee Fisher. Pay very close attention to this ad, cuz you’re not gonna see it too many times. (This is your first ad in the entire general election, Lee. I’m paying real close attention.)
My campaign just doesn’t have millions of dollars to run lots of ads (Why not? You said you would. It was your entire primary campaign.), no scary [...]
Full Story... →If any of us really thought Lee Fisher would just go quietly into that good night after pulling a TaftQuack level catastrophic statewide loss, here’s your answer. I’m not sure what’s more pitiful, Lee’s campaign now, or the next one he’s trying to buy instead, four years from now.
We’ll have plenty more on this next week. Plenty.
Full Story... →Or something. Are there enough hours?
Full Story... →It’s starting to be said among the glitterati of our party that Lee Fisher’s presence on this statewide ticket, as was predicted ad nauseum for a solid year, is bringing down the ticket as a whole. That was going to be a problem if Lee was Mr. Money Bags, whose only argument for nomination was his fundraising prowess. But when your US Senate candidate is out of money, unable to air TV spots, while his opponent is running spots non-stop statewide – bigger deal. Kind of a multiplier effect against the rest of the ticket, which in Lee’s case, multiplies [...]
Full Story... →Begins…..right……now. Two weeks to go!
Full Story... →Budget Watch
