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Tag: Ted Strickland

Kasich Seeks To Recharge Ohio

John Kasich has the ability to make Republicans believe again and to remember how to work together again as a coalition with like goals in mind.

Democrat Controlled Ohio House Just Keeps Digging

What is the #1 rule of holes? Stop Digging! These are difficult times.  Everyone is having to tighten their belt and make sacrifices.  Except for the federal government who under Barack Obama seems intent on spending itself into oblivion. Usually states can’t follow this route because their constitutions require a balanced budget.  But in hard [...]

Adventures in bad poll questions

I don’t have access to the actual polling questions, but get a load of this Dayton Daily News story: If given a choice between cutting services for the sick, hungry and abused or raising taxes on businesses and wealthy families, Ohioans are all for boosting taxes, according to a new survey released Wednesday March 25. [...]

Contra Obama; Strickland aims to destroy charter schools

When President Barack Obama wants to prove he is a centrist, and not afraid to tell his own supporters they are wrong, the one thin reed he has is some nice words on education policy.  True, he doesn’t have much of an actual record of bucking the education lobby on policy (see Freddoso for example) [...]

Obama and Strickland feel the heat

As voters get to see President Obama and Ohio Governor Strickland respond to the economic tough times their impressions of the two leaders change.  Both are seeing their poll numbers drop. The Dayton Daily News had the Strickland story yesterday.  And the truth of the matter is that Strickland’s handling of the economy was never [...]