[txrangerette]

We have FReepers on the ground in OH who have provided their perspectives, and they are well- informed and well-reasoned.

I’ll just say, if OH doesn’t come our way in the end, I will be shocked, dumbfounded.

We have a ground game there to end all ground games. People are working like there is no tomorrow to bring the results home when all the votes are counted. That matters.

In addition, look at it this way...don’t simply think of OH as a state that ought to mirror America’s choice at large. Think of OH as also being famous for BEING WITH THE WINNER ON ELECTION DAY. If it looks like Romney is going to win, OHIOANS who are open to voting either way (I know...who could possibly think of voting Obama again???) will WANT to vote with the winner, not the loser!

That factor is often overlooked. I for one refuse to believe that enough Ohioans are so GLUED TO OBAMA that they would vote for him against a portended Romney victory. I WON’T believe that until it is proven to me.

[katana]

It would defy logic for Obama to win a State where the Governor, SOS, Auditor, and AG (along with a majority of both Houses) are Republican. And you're correct about the R ground game. Just from simple observation the ratio of lawn signage in Romney's and all the Republican local office candidate's favor seems to be at least 2 to 1. And that is in what is probably the second or third most heavily Democrat county in the State (Summit).

If I were a Democrat I'd be deeply depressed and more actively concerned about the possibility of Sherrod Brown finally getting a well deserved boot up his a** from that nice Jewish kid with two Iraq tours, Josh Mandel. Except for the polls (which I'm convinced are a grasping at straws manipulation exercise) Obama looks like a goner in Ohio. If election day proves me wrong our State will owe an apology to the nation.