[Torie]

Actually Bush lost Columbus, and Franklin County by a hair. Columbus is plugging into cultural liberalism chic. The Pubbies need big wins in the rural Counties (particulary the Virginia miliary reserve counties that don't have square sections (SE Ohio), plus the Cinci suburbs and that odd little solid GOP belt running north to the west of Dayton, to pull it out. What has really kept the GOP in the game, is that the Dem margins in the Cleveland Metro area have been stagnant, and declining slightly, as has the share of its vote of the state as a whole

[wylenetheconservative]

Bush won metro Columbus in a big way. He lost the city of Columbus narrowly, but just massacred Gore in the Columbus suburbs. I agree though about Cleveland, it is losing population and clout.