[pepsionice]

The problem with all ten states listed is that they simply aren’t creating jobs, period. You’d think they’d be enticing international companies to come in and give them great deals to create jobs out of thin air (like both Tennessee and Alabama do)....but they can’t. My prediction over the rest of this decade is that most of these lose population and by 2020....they lose more representative power. In essence, they are creating a negative electoral college situation over the next ten years for themselves.

[SusaninOhio]

Au contraire - Ohio at #6 - we elected a Republican governor and kicked out Obama’s buddy Strickland who couldn’t even get a space shuttle for our Air Force Museum, an exceptionally good, FREE museum -

We have hope that Governor Kasich will continue to buck the unions (not ‘bust’, altho that would be fine with me) and work to reverse the awful jobless trend here in Ohio.

Problems had begun prior to Obama, with automotive factories leaving, but for the most part Ohio has been a Red state. It was sickening when it went for Obama.

Large companies like NCR, who started in Dayton, were allowed to be stolen by Atlanta after 120 years - with Strickland complaining that NCR management wouldn’t even talk to him. Complaining seems to be all that libs are ever able to do, complain and point fingers.

Now the MSM is working hard to convince us that the ‘GOP’ leadership, whatever that is supposed to mean, wants Ohio to support Romney.

I don’t think that is going to fly. We remember the GOP Leadership telling us to support McCain and look how that turned out. Palin was the only thing that came close to redeeming his dreadful campaign, and for that reason he introduced her here in the Dayton, Ohio area. Too bad that in order to get her, we had to take him.

[bgill]

My prediction over the rest of this decade is that most of these lose population

There was a thread on FR earlier about NY losing population.

[Cementjungle]

You’d think they’d be enticing international companies to come in and give them great deals to create jobs out of thin air

Well, that's the problem. They believe that all corporations are "evil", so they are to be shunned at all costs. The only answer for them is more government to "take care" of the citizens (and illegals of course too).

[Alberta's Child]

I've done some work in Ohio in the last couple of years, and I'm very impressed with some of the things the state government has done there -- under both Democrat and Republican administrations.

The problem is that jobs are being lost in traditional industries faster than the growth of the newer industries.