Posted on 01/22/2009 11:42:58 AM PST by theruleshavechanged
With the retirement of Sen. George Voinovich (R.), the next election may be the test of just how competitive Republicans can be in the age of Obama.
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Honestly, we came to the same conclusion about Adams v Brown county.
If you are familiar with the White Oak Valley (White Oak Valley Road) you know why we are happy where we are here.
Try SE Ohio. Just below my county (which is very rural, only 40,000 in the entire county), there’s Noble county which we call Nobletucky (with a population of only 14,000). Land is very inexpensive, still.
Thanks but I need to be within an hour’s commuting distance of Cincinnati. :)
I do love Adams county though!
Alas for Ohio. Taft, Dewine, Voinovich.
We should change the nickname from “Ohio, the heart of it all” to “Ohio, the nanny state.”
Cleveland, Youngstown, Cincy, Toledo, Lorain, Dayton, all under the socialist spell.
No reply to my email in post 9 from Mr Freddoso.
Thanks buddy.
Of course I signed it with my title, and company website and 800 number, as opposed to what I did here in the forum.
Drop by some time, TonyRo76. Its about 90 minutes or so from where I’m sitting to Columbus.
I can’t begin to describe how much I love living here.
Very good analysis! My husband and I are very seriously thinking about making a move out of this state (after living here all of our lives) precisely because of these situations.
My wife and I have been considering the same since my father in law passed away three years ago.
What I can say is when we opened up a new business, it wasn’t in Ohio specifically because of the tax codes.
Curious, where bouts in southern Ohio?
There is no way a conservative or a liberal can win with out also winning slightly more than half the Moderates.
Liberals in Ohio, tend to run as centrists. They talk the moderate language and when the do, they win.
I posted in 2006 that all the Conservatives gained by trashing TAFT was the election of TED STRICKLAND as Governor. When moderates hear Republicans trashing Republicans they reason it is time to throw the bums out. So they elected a lot of Democrats.
Had the Conervatives ignored TAFT and just promoted Blackwell they might have one. As it was only conservatives voted for Blackwell and Strickland won an easy race. But it is doubltful that Blackwell could have won the race. He presented himself as a real conservative, and that cost him tons of moderate voters.
Conservatives are pretty stupid. Look what they did when conservatives in Penn tried to take Senator Spector down. They answered people who said a conservative like Tooney could not win, by saying that Senator Rick Santorum was a conservative and he had won. At that time I posted that conservatives had just destroyed Santorum. Letting the voters know that Santorum was a real conservative would not defeat Spector, it would defeat Santorum.. and it did.
In swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania Rinos have a much better chance of getting elected than either a conservative or liberal.
At anyone time there are about 35 Conservative Senators and 35 Liberal Senators. The remaining 30 are moderates... they are some combination of RINOS and DINOS. If the Republicans elect a majority of RINOS in the swing states they control the senate. If in those same swing states the Democrats get a majority of DINOS elected,then they control the Senate.
Those on the right that can't figure out that swing states sometimes fo for Republicans and sometimes go for Democrats can't understand why Conservative candidates rarely if ever win. Moderates control who gets elected.
Swing voters vote on just two issues. Which candidate do they like, and if elected what will he do for them. Preaching ideology is just stupid. It never convinces the voters needed to win.
If the Republican party tries to go right wing in OHIO... it will end up never get more than 35 percent of the votes. It takes a RINO to win Ohio.
Their is chaos in Ohio because the Right Wing turned on the RINOS. And the party is split and the must have moderate voters have turned to a united Democratic Party
DeWine is a loser. We have got to keep DeWine off that ticket if Republicans want to win anything in OHio. DeWine is sooooo unpopular - almost as unpopular as Taft. I knew that when DeWine was stumping for McCain in Ohio that meant that McCain would lose the state.
DeWine will roll over and play dead for any Democrat. He has no backbone. He also has a son who is a rabid environmentalist. Once the kid got the enviromental degree DeWine got really soft on the Green issues. It was like he was letting his kid call the shots. I would not vote for DeWine for dog catcher.
DeWine will pull the ticket down like a millstone.
Your lack of understanding what took place in the Ohio GOP is simply staggering.
You and I see this the same way. Mikey Dewine is radioactive in Ohio with Conservatives, and the general public, for a wide variety of reasons.
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