well, it would be nice if the OH GOP cleaned up its act .. this looks like an IL redux.
The OHIO 2 race should be a warning to everyone.If we keep standing for "pale pastels" with no bold agenda we will lose in 06.Conservatism is the ONLY redeeming quality of this party.We need to remember this.
Holding a clean election in the metropolitan areas would end this speculation.
If Kerry had ignored the lobbyists and run hard against free trade, outsourcing, Enron, etc he could have carried Ohio.
Hillary will not repeat that mistake.
Interesting the Republican candidate won 52% to 48%. My experience in special elections tells me that this a large margin to win by, yet the press keeps referring to it as a close election. I guess they keep dreaming, however, we cannot become complacent.
"Rare coin investment fund"?????
Hit it Crystal Gayle:
"Don't it make my Buckeyes blue"
The democrat lied to the voters. They thought they were voting for a pro-American.
I'll bet they're glad he lost now that the truth had surfaced. That lie will help Republicans next time. Voters don't like being lied to. Ask Bill Clinton!
I don't see Secretary of State and future Governor Blackwell on there. Good, I hope he didn't get any money from this crook.
Is Ohio turning blue? Possibly. It definitely has become a battleground state, where it was almost a given for the "red" column before. Illinois should have been a salient warning as to what could happen. Not merely a surrender to RINOs, but to RINOs who did not believe in the integrity of the Republican party, RINOs that would jump ship and become Democrats in an eyeblink. All to punish something, I know not what.
Maybe some people would sooner not be reminded of their own conscience.
If that's the case then why did the Democrats run ads connecting their candidate so closely to Bush - even using clips of speeches?
"Is Ohio Turning Blue?"
It will, if it holds its breath long enough.
I'm not buying it. The dems ran a "Republican Light" candidate, spent a ton of resources and, and. . . . .LOST!!! It is just amazing to me that the dems have to try and characterize a loss as a victory to make themselves feel good. From what I have read 52-48% in a special election is a wide margin given the low turnout associated with such elections. Honestly, this strikes me as pure and simple MSM wishful thinking. I will put forth this proposition, if the margin was 60-40% the MSM STILL would have characterized it as being "closer" than it should have been.
The story to the MSM is that 2006 will be like 1994. The MSM just can't get over the fact that the stories they are reporting just aren't matching reality.
As for Ohio turning from dem to Republican on a local level, perhaps that is what is needed for the Ohio GOP to wake up and kick out the RINO's. But, that doesn't mean Ohio is going Red in National Politics.
No!
Is Ohio Turning Blue?
Human Events Online Gizzi, John
THIS is why they shouldn't make these guys write too often or in the summer of odd years.
Not if Blackwell becomes Governor.
If they keep putting up these RINO Republicans and expect to get elected, they will find out the hard way they miscalculated.
Maybe yanking their power from them is what they need at this point.
yes that is true, but I reject this idiotic notion of a red and blue state as though the way states vote is something permanent.
OH voted DEM in 1976, 1992 and 1996.
Just because they might elect a DEM gov next year doesnt mean squat. CA, IL, PA, WI, MI, OH, NY, NJ, MA all had GOP govs in 1996 and Dole didnt carry a single one of those states.
RED/BLUE is just a way for the media to be lazy and not do any real political reporting