With 66 delegates at stake, Ohio is not the largest target on Super Tuesday, which will see 10 contests held on March 6. But it is the most important. There are no demographic or regional arguments to explain away a loss for Mitt …
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In the National Spotlight, Santorum Doesn’t Shy Away from Social Issues
Rick Santorum’s victories on Feb. 7 kicked off a month-long trial period, which will be capped by Super Tuesday on March 6, to convince Republican voters that he is not only the best conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, but …
The Lessons of Issue 2’s Defeat in Ohio
The ad is short and scary: 29 seconds of wailing sirens, homes engulfed by flames and an authority figure warning of trouble. If you want to understand how Democrats and their labor-union allies won the heavyweight tussle over …
A Banner Night for Democrats as High-Profile Ballot Initiatives Go Blue
In a hard-won victory for Democrats and their labor-union allies, Ohioans decisively rejected the state’s collective-bargaining law on Tuesday night, repealing Republican Governor John Kasich’s signature legislation in a …
High Stakes in Ohio, Mississippi and Virginia as Voters Head to the Polls
The narrative arc you’re likely to hear on this Tuesday in early November is that today begins the yearlong countdown to the 2012 presidential contest. But Tuesday’s slate of off-year elections and ballot measures is laden with …
Romney Rebooted Makes a Rare Calculating Error
Mitt Romney has put a lot of work into reversing the perception, prevalent during his 2008 campaign, that his ideological compass only follows the magnetic field of whichever electorate he happens to be trying to win over. The …
Senate Republicans Like Their Democrats Barechested
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There is a back story to this NRSC ad. Lee Fisher, who is running for Senate, was filmed in a 2008 documentary by his son, working shirtless late at night.
The lesson here is either not to work shirtless if you ever want to be a Senator, or not to let your son film …
A Micro Snap Shot of Obama’s Union GOTV in Ohio
I spent a good part of the last week looking at Obama’s sudden popularity with unions. Here’s my story, but there was some color that got cut out that I thought I’d share. If it is a true microcosm of what’s going on in Ohio, it’s really interesting.
The Obama campaign and its union partners are aiming to knock on a million
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Westerville: Part Two
Following up on Karen’s post.
The program at Westerville Central High began an hour late, due, in part to Obama’s tardiness from this morning and to the time it took for him to greet inside and outside overflow supporters here. Yesterday, the campaign ran out of the 1,700 tickets they allotted for this “smaller” town hall …
Obama Claims the (Thorny) Crown
His blowout victories yesterday in the Potomac Primaries have prompted Barack Obama’s campaign to finally embrace his frontrunner status. After weeks of downplaying expectations, even before contests where he led in the polls by 20+ percentage points, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe today said: “We believe that it’s next to …