I haven’t done a Blue Ohio Update for a few days. I have been busy posting over at Crooks and Liars, working and dealing with countless other problems. Well I feel bad for neglecting my Blue Ohio, so here we go. It looks like Joy Padgett can run to be the replacement for Bob Ney: […]
Today is the big day in Blue Ohio News, the day where we find out Bob Ney is out. The interesting part is that Ney is trying to pick his successor: In a heavily Republican district, Ney reported last month that his own internal polls had him clinging to a 4-percentage point lead; Space said […]
The spotlight on Ohio’s new voter registration laws is getting stronger and today made it’s way to the New York Times: For Tony Minor, the pastor of the Community of Faith Assembly in a run-down section of East Cleveland, Ohio’s new voter registration rules have meant spending two extra hours a day collecting half as […]
Blackwell’s attempts (some successful) at screwing with the elections in Ohio in 2004 are now costing him: Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell must pay nearly $65,000 in legal fees incurred by the Sandusky County Democratic Party when it successfully challenged one of the chief elections officer’s directives over provisional ballots in 2004. The Cincinnati-based […]
One issue that will weigh in on Ohio voter’s minds this election season is jobs. Ohio has lost an enormous amount of jobs to outsourcing and the two Senate candidates, Mike DeWine and Sherrod Brown have very differing views of free trade: Akron businessman John Johnston might have had enough. Six years ago, the registered […]
Gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell has now compared gays to arsonists: Ohio’s largest LGBT civil rights organization is demanding an apology from GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell after he compared gays to criminals in a newspaper interview. Asked by the Columbus Dispatch if homosexuality is a sin and if it can be cured Blackwell said: “I […]
As election time grows nearer, I am going to focus more on the races here in Ohio. We are a key state this year that can turn blue so I believe it is imperative to keep focus on these races. I will still work to bring news and views from around the country and world, so […]
Since I have been busy working that has left little time for my hobby of politics. Tonight I finally had some time to hit all my sites and I got to go to SurveyUSA and check out their latest50 state tracking poll. My state’s governor, Bob Taft, has repeatedly been the lowest approved governor on […]