Buckeye Blowout

Recent polls in Ohio show Republican U.S. Senator Mike DeWeeb - er, DeWine - as much as twelve percentage points behind Democratic challenger Sherrod Brown in his bid for re-election. Democrat Ted Strickland is far ahead of Republican Kenneth Blackwell (the Uncle Tom Negro who delivered the state to Bush in 2004 as Ohio Secretary of State), and Republican voter confidence is very low. It should be, given Representative Robert Ney's fall from grace due to the Abramoff scandal and outgoing governor Robert Taft II's ability to soil with scandal a family name it took generations (generations that included a U.S. attorney general, a U.S. President and Supreme Court Chief Justice, and a distinguished U.S. senator) to build up. Republicans have even been diverting money from Ohio to try and minimize losses elsewhere. This is bad news, considering the Buckeye State's importance to the G.O.P. ; no Republican presidential candidate has ever won the White House without carrying it.

As Ohio goes. . . . :-D