Ohio: "It's lucky (Bush's) not on the ballot this year."

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: In Ohio, The War Matters Most
By David S. Broder
Sunday, November 6, 2005; Page B07

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A year after the close Ohio vote gave President Bush his second term in the White House, I came back to the capital of this battleground state last week as part of a team of Post reporters interviewing voters in various areas of the country.

Before heading to my precincts, I stopped by the office of a prominent Republican I had known for many years and asked him what he thought I would hear about Bush that afternoon. His answer was succinct: "It's lucky he's not on the ballot this year."

Public and private polls confirm that, as usual, Ohio is an accurate barometer of the national political trends. Bush has slumped badly here, as he has across the country. Ohio adds its own twists to the national story. Some sectors of the economy have shown improvement in the past year. But a series of financial scandals has hit the dominant GOP, and embattled Republican Gov. Bob Taft is suffering from pathetically low approval ratings after admitting that he was slow in reporting free golf outings and other favors from lobbyists. Democrats, who have lost every statewide contest in recent years, sense an opportunity for a comeback in next year's races for governor and senator.

But the dominant factor in the changed political climate -- identified by my Republican friend and confirmed by the voter interviews -- is the war in Iraq. He reminded me that nine Marines from a Columbus-based unit had been ambushed and killed in a single attack in August and that five other Marines from the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park had met a similar fate earlier that same week.

Those deaths are much more personal -- and the wounds much deeper -- than the damage to the president's support that has been caused by any of the more recent controversies roiling the waters in Washington. The ups and downs of Bush's various Supreme Court choices, John Roberts, Harriet Miers and Samuel Alito, have prompted little curiosity among the voters I met....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110401673.html

[LisaL]

1. Oh gee. OH is just like a giraffe. Takes so long to get anything

to the head.

[KoKo]

2. So Broder concludes: Either bomb the hell out of them into submission or

get the troops out and all will be well in Bushland. The sun will shine and the flowers will burst forth in joy.

Never mind about the corruption and rot in Ohio or in DC and the idiot-in-chief's lack of morality, honest and clarity.

Ayyyyyyy David Broder....go away.

[ContraBass Black]

3. Or the number of dead Iraqis.

But what am I thinking? Brown people don't count!
:spank:

[Greeby]

4. Ohio should've thought of that

Before they sent the Wicked Witch of the East to the House :nopity: