If Ohio is lost, that can be laid directly at the feet of Ohio president of the Ohio Senate, Tom Niehaus. It was Niehaus who marshaled together Senate Bill 5 that so over-reached, and then hung that monstrosity around the neck of newley elected Governor John Kasich.
It was terrible politics, and it was terrible for the reasons spelled out by Scott Walker of Wisconsin who said that teachers and police weren’t the problem, but were merely symptoms of a problem.
Niehaus’ stupid bill went so far into the weeds as to spell out criteria for evaluating teachers, clearly a local issue for school districts.
Kasich, with jobs rebounding, should be strongly approved in Ohio, but political liar and incompetent, Tom Niehaus, ruined any honeymoon Kasich might have had with the voters.
If Ohio decides the election, and Ohio goes to Obama, then the national election can be laid at the feet of southern Ohio’s own ignoramus, Thomas Niehaus.
Correct and Ohio’s SB5 was such a grand error that it seems almost impossible to have happened. You usually don’t get to be Pres. of the Senate as a political neophyte.