John Kasich and Senate bill 5 seriously undermined Mitt Romney in Ohio. When we saw the way Ohio voters rebuked Kasich and his legislative agenda in 2011, the writing was on the wall.
Never once head that mentioned by any of the pundits over the last several months. Self delusion on our part
I call baloney on that. Romney was ahead in Ohio in some polls, its not like it was an inevitable loss. The margin btw is super tight 1%. As noted Libertarian vote was > margin of victory.
Auto bailout politics as used as well as ‘war on women’.
Folks like Akin were used by Democrats as a distraction from the economy, and then when economy came up, they’d blame Bush.
Romney needed more than just the economy to win Ohio.