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National Review’s Mytheos Holt attempts to “fact check” Strickland’s new ad attacking Kasich’s JobsOhio plan.
It would have been better if they hadn’t bothered.
Holt (who writes regularly about this site and its coverage of the campaign) claims that Kasich’s statements are taken out of context. The only problem is that in the two months Kasich made those statements, he’s never made such a claim despite being asked repeatedly about these very issues.
I. On bonuses
Holt’s first point is that the ad neglects to mention that the bonuses will only be paid based on performance… Except that [...]
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John Kasich is his own worst enemy. His JobsOhio plan is a recipe for cronyism and scandal. There is precious little evidence that it would actually do a better job in creating jobs in Ohio.
I would have rather they had used the examples of the corruption in Florida, Michigan and elsewhere to attack this plan rather than tie it back into the Wall $treet attack line. A little variety in their angle of attacks wouldn’t kill them.
Then again, they’re ads so far has taken a race that had Kasich showing double-digit aggregate leads to within the margins [...]
Full Story... →Back in May, News Corp. Chairman/CEO Rupert Murdoch and his wife donated $10,000 each to John Kasich’s campaign. Shortly after that, News Corp. gave $1 million to the Republican Governors’ Association.
In yesterday’s Politico, Murdoch admitted that he had his company’s PAC make the donation solely to help out John Kasich. When asked if he ever considered how such an one-sided partisan donation could affect Fox News’ credibility, he said:
“It doesn’t reflect on Fox News,” he said. “It had nothing to do with Fox News. The RGA [gift] was actually [a result of] my friendship with John [...]
Full Story... →Wow. With 13 percent still undecided. I hate writing about polls, but here’s what today’s bevy of great polling for Ted proves.
Right before early vote, people started to pay attention, and they are remembering why they like Ted. The positive ads are doing that job. Historical trends are starting to take hold, namely, that Ohio does not throw out incumbent governors. Last one was John Gilligan. Ain’t likely to happen this year, either.
It also means that voters flirted with Kasich over the economy, and are now moving either to Ted, or to undecided. To move that back [...]
Full Story... →Dead. Heat.
In the race for Ohio governor, incumbent Ted Strickland has pulled into a virtual dead heat with Republican challenger John Kasich. Kasich leads by 47 percent to 46 percent after holding a 9-point edge in August.
Spin those dervishes, Keeling.
Full Story... →45-43. 10% undecided. Conducted September 25.
Previous Fox polls had Ted down by 5-7 points. Also jives with Ted’s internal polling, and the Ohio Poll which has it a 4 point race.
Cue Jon Keeling spin of whirling dervish proportions.
Full Story... →Former John Kasich staffer, Homeland Security consultant, and lifelong suckling of the government teat, Jon Keeling, has proven every single day of his John Kasich inspired blowhard blogging career that he is, in fact, a clueless shill. Modern does a fine job pointing that out. When Kasich loses, Keeling will probably never blog again, and retire to begging his government funded employers for ever more taxpayer money to fund the very personal hypocritical hour by hour contradiction that is his “career”. But I digress.
Yesterday, Keeling pretended to know Cuyahoga County, which is what he does on all matters [...]
Full Story... →John Kasich and Rob Portman aren’t just running a campaign on jobs and the economy. But very specificially, they’re claiming that Ohio’s economic woes are because despite 16 years of all Republican rule in the State of Ohio before Governor Strickland took office, Ohio is such a horrible taxing and regulatory environment that businesses just cannot succeed here and have been engaged in a mass migration out of the State.
Remember this Rob Portman ad?
OMG! Look at those fleeing arrows out of Ohio! We’ve lost nearly 400,000 while setting a record of mass business migration out [...]
Full Story... →Looks like that endorsement by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce of Kasich and other Republicans isn’t going to be as “precious” as he thought.
AEP’s President has announced that he has resigned his position on the Board of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce over their endorsements.
According to the Associated Press:
AEP spokeswoman Melissa McHenry said Friday the endorsement prompted AEP Ohio President Joe Hamrock to leave the chamber’s board. McHenry says the utility does not believe it was appropriate for the business group to endorse a candidate.
"It creates division in the chamber membership and it pits businesses [...]
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... →There seems to be a real divergence in polling. On one end, Quinnipiac, Fox News, and CNN/Time has the Governor’s race at a 5-7 lead for Kasich. On the other end, you have SurveyUSA, the Columbus Dispatch’s mail-in poll, and today’s Quinnipiac poll that claims that Kasich has a 12-17 point lead.
Earlier this week, Stu Rothenberg, a highly respected political forecaster dismissed the results of recent SurveyUSA polls and the Dispatch poll, saying:
That survey, which showed Republican John Kasich with a 12-point lead over incumbent Gov. Ted Strickland (D), had an inexplicable sample that was [...]
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