I saw a news piece on a major network---don't remember which---about three weeks ago from Southeast OH. Don't recall if the guy was in Portsmouth, or where, but he glumly noted that he was spending most of his time still explaining that Obama wasn't a "muslim." Now, that says it all. If they are still having to do that in Sept./Oct., no way Obama wins SE OH.
I saw a similar story. They said the only county in south eastern Ohio that might go for Obama was Athens county.. Ohio U gives that one to Obama. The problem in those South Eastern Ohio counties is the local democrat officials are not going to lift a finger to get out the vote for Obama.
I grew up in the Democratic party. I remember how much effort it took every election to get the rank and file democrats to the polls and voting. It was a huge effort. It blew my mind when I got involved in a Republican campaign, and found some locals thought it was not nice to organize drivers and phone operators to organize getting older people and other voters to the polls.
I read in the La Times that in Virginia, West Virginia, South western PA and Southern Ohio they were having trouble getting Democratic precinct workers to canvas for obama. So they tried using unions only to find the same problem with union workers. In many cases the anti obama people extended up to county chairmen.
I am thinking that Hillary won Scioto County by something like 10 to 1 or 2. And Lawrence county was even worse for Obama. Hillary won Kentucky by something like 2 to 1 and every county that bordered KY went for Hillary just like the county across the river except Hamilton.
The media thinks those Hillary votes were pro Hillary votes. Some were but many were not. They were for Hillary but the reason was anti Obama.