Bush's Ohio Valley: Why has he stopped campaigning here?..MSN Slate 10/21

[Bushfire]

COLUMBUS, Ohio—White House press secretary Scott McClellan wandered into the press cabin on Air Force One this week to let the media know where President Bush would be campaigning. On Thursday, Pennsylvania. On Friday, Pennsylvania and Florida. On Saturday, Florida. Those are two of the presidential campaign's "Big Three" states, which nearly everyone assumes will decide the election. The glaring omission: Ohio.

"Why aren't we going to Ohio? The president hasn't been there in several weeks," a reporter asked McClellan after the plane landed. Oops, the president will head to Canton on Friday, McClellan said. "I think I forgot to mention Ohio."

McClellan's lapse is understandable. Bush seems to have forgotten about Ohio, too. "The Bush campaign is confident it can win the state; as if to prove its comfort level, today marks 14 days since the Republican president last set foot in Ohio," Cleveland's Plain Dealer wrote this past Saturday. By the time Bush arrives in Canton tomorrow, he'll have gone 19 days without campaigning in the Buckeye State. His last stop here was in Cuyahoga Falls on Oct. 2.

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http://slate.msn.com/id/2108513/

editorial not needed understandably...i think we all know why now

[Carolab]

1. This is a good background piece that supports a "fix being in"

You should send it to Cliff Arnebeck at [email protected]

Also send it to Keith Olbermann at [email protected]

[ClintCooper2003]

2. It just adds to the mountain of circumstantial evidence...

"You can write it down."

[mirandapriestly]

3. hmmm hmmmm

same reason he was so sure he would win. Being confident of a win is highly suspicious in such a close race. The ONLY way he could have TRULY believed he would win, is if the fix was in. and why bother going to Ohio any more than necessary?

[RaulVB]

4. Yeah, he was so convinced that...

When the exit polls started to give THE REAL NUMBERS, he had too appear on ABC to calm down the doubters.

Now I understand it completeley.

He was telling the "troops":

"Don't worry...you know we got this thing fixed!"

[NJCher]

5. yeah, just like that hotel room in FL in 2000

I remember the whole crime family sitting around, confident as could be when the networks called FL for Gore.

How I loathe these bastards.


Cher

[Horse with no Name]

6. I have to admit I was disturbed

On election day to see weedwhacker in Ohio--maybe he was just making sure that everyone was in place for "The Sting".

[Senator]

7. Reminds me of 2000

When the bushkid spent the last couple days in Arkansas and Tennessee.

Of course MSM parrotted Rove pablum about "creating aura of inevitability," but it still raised a few eyebrows.

Fact is that some promises/demands/threats (to local Reps) still must be made in person to be fully deniable.

And lo and behold, Asa Hutchinson gets plum DC job and Bill Frist becomes majority leader. Imagine that.

[ClintonTyree]

8. I posted about this that very day..................

that either they had given up in Ohio (fat chance there) or that they KNEW the fix was in and it wasn't necessary to continue to waste resources there. I guess I was correct. It's comical that some political dilettante like myself could decipher this instantaneously, but the DNC never saw it coming. Maybe I'm in the wrong profession.