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After a bunch of calls, no one will go on the record, and few people will talk…so given that, here’s what we think happened.
Full Story... →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... →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... →A rumor circulated in the ballroom that Ted would concede around 11pm. About 10 minutes later, the Strickland campaign sent out this statement, and Chris Redfern read it from the podium.
“Given where voting stands right now and the significant number of uncounted votes that still remain across the state, we are watching the results of this election very closely. We will continue to monitor the situation.”
No one can figure out how there are a “significant number of uncounted votes” large enough to close the gap as of right now, except if there are over 100,000 outstanding provisional ballots. [...]
Full Story... →I don’t normally post press releases in full, but this one seems like a good candidate.
Memorandum Re: OH Gov Race
To: Interested Parties
Fr: Aaron Pickrell, Strickland for Governor
RE: State of the Race
Date: October 29, 2010
Heading into the final weekend of the Ohio gubernatorial campaign, Ted Strickland is STRONGLY positioned to be re-elected. Our internal polling has held steady for the last few weeks and at the end of this week, Ted holds a 4 point lead (46-42) over Congressman Kasich in a 2-way race and a 5 point lead (43-38) over Congressman [...]
Full Story... →One of the cool things about living in Cleveland during an election cycle is that you get to see every ad for statewide candidates that anyone ever runs. People poo-poo on Cuyahoga centric thinking among Ohio Dems, which is fair, but just turn on the TV in prime time and that’ll tell you how important this nook of Ohio is to candidates. Kasich and Ted are throwing haymakers on the air. Likely the most competitive gubernatorial ad war since 1998 (we all know who lost that one, don’t we).
I don’t see a problem with any of the ads except [...]
Full Story... →48-47. I’m not the polling blogger here at PB, but I have been noticing something very weird about this cycle’s measurement of the so-called “enthusiasm gap”.
As Modern has pointed out, many of the polls showing Kasich ahead by a wide margin sample Republican voters at nearly a majority of the entire electorate.
There is no evidence, none, that the smallest population of the registered voter population in Ohio (registered Republicans) will be the biggest population of the general election population in November to such an extent that they will be a majority of the general election vote [...]
Full Story... →Today, Joe Hallet wrote a column for the Columbus Dispatch guised as a “fact check” of Ted Strickland’s new ad attacking Kasich’s JobsOhio plan. In it, Hallett made a whopper of a claim about the “secret bonus” issue:
At the Tarrier Steel press conference, Kasich clearly was joking when he talked about the bonuses; he and reporters around him laughed when he said, "You all are familiar with bonuses … we will not require them to disclose their bonus."
Hallett is suggesting that Kasich only made the “secret bonus” crack when he joked about “you all are familiar [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
