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| 2008-09-09 |
| Jim Geraghty, "Campaign Spot" @ National Review Interesting wrinkle in this story: Despite what appears to be a shrinking lead, Obama aides argued that they maintain a strong position in the race. What's missing from that list? Ohio. Interrresting. In 2004, Ohio was the decisive state, and it's an article of faith in the moonbat fever swamps that the Bush team "stole" the Ohio election. By 2006, the "Coingate" scandal and various other miscues and mess-ups by Governor Bob Taft so trashed the Republican brand name that the Donks swept the statewide offices, giving us Governor Ted Strickland and Attorney General Marc Dann. Strickland, who is an absolutely vile partisan masquerading as a Methodist minister, supported Hillary, and was widely credited with getting her the win in the primary. He's got a good approval rating, mostly because he's managed not to do anything obviously stupid or corrupt so far. Marc Dann was an early Obama supporter. He managed to do a whole lot of obviously stupid and corrupt things, and is no longer in office. At the beginning of the year, the Donks could probably quite reasonably have looked to play off the taft scandals and carry Ohio. After Marc Dann, their own brand equity is looking a little wobbly, so maybe not so much. Obama's state campaign chair, Eric Kearney, is an old classmate of mine. (His wife is a classmate of the Obamas.) We got along very well in school and I consider him a good friend, albiet one I haven't kept in regular contact with. He was getting a lot of statewide press not too long ago, but that seems to have faded a bit. Wonder if that's a leading indicator that the Obama camp is throttling back, or just the ebb and flow of news cycles. Gov. Strickland is supposedly Obama's co-chair in Ohio, and did some conference calls with Eric during the summer. Strickland also rather famously said he did not want to be Obama's running mate. Wonder if his heart's really in it for Obama. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #5 Even the lawyers were disgusted. Me, three dead guys and a Mr. M. Mouse all vote for that as Snark o' the Day. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-09-09 21:46 |
| #4 Gort - very understandable - I've got a bit of history in Ohio, and most of the reports struck me as outsider ignorance, if not outright fantasy. For perspective, I'm now in Chicagoland, and it's noteworthy that the city regularly "loses" between 100,000 and 300,000 ballots in the biennial elections. You don't hear much about that at all. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Asymmetrical Reply Division 2008-09-09 20:57 |
| #3 One of the guys at Bros. Judd said ACORN distributed 300K absentee ballots. Don't count our chickens yet............ |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2008-09-09 11:41 |
| #2 . . and it's an article of faith in the moonbat fever swamps that the Bush team "stole" the Ohio election. A bit OT but interesting - It was my unhappy duty to fly out of Columbus to Dulles after the 2004 election with a planeload of 'news' correspondents and hired-gun election law lawyers at the end of the review of the election results and tabulation. I honestly think I was the only civilian on the aircraft and these guys/gals were speaking candidly amongst themselves. The lawyers - to a person - were convinced there were no irregularities in the voting tabulation. The results were well within the 'normal' and expected amount of fraud, double counting, lost ballots, and ghost voters. The news staffers, expecially the CNN folks, were livid that they were unsuccessful in their attempts to gin up a fraud story. After they settled down, they did what they do best - making plans to get l**d and hitting on anything in a skirt. Even the lawyers were disgusted. And that is saying something. |
| Posted by: GORT 2008-09-09 11:26 |
| #1 Obama will be lucky to get the second district in the very blue state of Maine. Maine allocates electors district by district, and the 2nd is rural, white, and overwhelmingly independent. It's only 1 elector, but still. |
| Posted by: Minister of funny walks 2008-09-09 11:12 |