Live-Blogging the Genocide Denial Trial: Schmidt v. Krikorian as it Happens...
I'm at the Ohio Elections Commission in Columbus for Day 2, the continuation of the hearing of Schmidt v. Krikorian, aka the Genocidal Denial Trial. If you're just joining, the OH-02 congresswoman,...
View ArticleOH-02: "Dirty Money" Goes and Comes Around in Ohio Congressional Contest --...
Jean Schmidt just can't win. First, Independent-Democratic opponent David Krikorian accuses her of taking "dirty money" from the Turkish-American lobby. Now, GOP primary-challenger C. Michael...
View ArticleOhio Machine Crumbles: Dems Cede Strickland Home Turf Without a Fight
At a time when control of the Ohio statehouse hangs by a thread and has national ramifications, Democrats are ceding two key statehouse races without a battle. In the 93rd Ohio House district, no...
View ArticleThe "Opt-Out" Plan that Will Work
News reports tonight suggest that Harry Reid is favoring a health plan that includes a public option, but that will also allow states to "opt out" of that option. Reports also suggest that the House...
View ArticleAnnals of the Ohio Machine: Ballot Issue Scams for Factory Farm Interests
A growing international movement seeks to combat the depradations of factory farms. These atrocities foul waterways, bays, and oceans; they contribute mightily to global warming; they incubate...
View ArticleOhio Poll Reveals Strickland Dead Meat in 2010 Governor's Race
The well-respected University of Cincinnati/Ohio Newspaper Poll -- known as the Ohio Poll -- released a new poll of the Ohio Governor's race over the weekend. http://media.cleveland.com/... The...
View ArticlePoll: What's the #1 Takeaway Message of the 2009 Elections?
It's a tough choice I know. But to chalk this up to "learning experience," we have to settle on the main lesson -- no "all of the above" option will do. Have at it. On a related note, Issue 2...
View ArticleOH-02: Schmidt "Invites" Wingnut House Invasion while Challenger Launches...
Notorious Congresswingnut Jean Schmidt yesterday invited thousands of teabaggers assembling on the DC Mall to enter the House of Representatives, "look at the wall,""find your member" and "let them...
View ArticleOH-02: Like We Needed Excitement, New Entry Stirs the Schmidt (Race)
Once again, Ohio's second district earns its motto: Ya can't make this stuff up. It wasn't enough that Jean Schmidt dresses in a Captain America suit while sponsoring an amendment to make flag...
View ArticleOH-Gov: Quinn Poll Confirms Strickland a Goner
Incumbent Democratic Governor Ted Strickland grew up along a backwoods road called Duck Run. They say there was so much shootin' in the neighborhood, the most common expression heard was: "Duck!...
View ArticleOH-02 SCOOP: Schmidt Opponents Unify as Unions Rescind Book Endorsement
Cross-posted at http://www.progressohio.org/...Prior to another recent Thanksgiving in OH-02, the big news in the district was that my neighbor Terry’s two full-grown African lions escaped and were...
View ArticleOH-02 BREAKING: Machine Candidate Book Withdraws from Race; Krikorian will...
Cross-posted at ProgressiveOhio.orgLast Friday, I broke the story that the major unions in his home county of Scioto had rescinded their endorsement of State Rep. Todd Book for the OH-02 congressional...
View ArticleOH-02 Republican Field Crowds with Schmidt-kickers
In the annals of wingnuttery, there's no more fertile breeding ground than south Ohio. The region produced William Tecumseh Sherman, who said "I intend to make Georgia howl." And George Armstrong...
View ArticleFrom Hope to Hold Your Nose: An Appalachian Manifesto on Health Care Reform
We have heard from every side on the Internet. We have not heard from the side of those not on the Internet, those who need health care most, the poor. I am tired of hearing about how competing...
View ArticleThe Elephant in the Room is a Democrat: The Troubles in Ohio
If you're not wondering what's going on within the Democratic Party of Ohio, you're not following the news. A spectacular series of corruption scandals in the most heavily Democratic counties --...
View ArticleDear Santa: All I want for Xmas is World Peace and a Gun
Portsmouth, Ohio, celebrates "A Dickens of a Christmas" because, and this is true, Charles Dickens once haunted the city. Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, and when his writing career...
View ArticleHoly Christmas! Wingnut Schmidt Initiates US Nuclear Industry Shutdown to Aid...
MAY HALT HER OWN PROJECTS & MAKE HERSELF AN OUTLAWCross-posted at ProgressOhio.org No snark. Pleistocene Ungreen Mean Jean Schmidt, R-OH, has called a potential halt to virtually all U.S....
View ArticleToday, 01022010, is a Palindrone
Oops, that's palindrome, unless you are entering the new decade ass backwards, in which case YOU are the Palindrone.Oddly enough, coinage of the term palindrome, meaning a phrase that reads the same...
View ArticleScott Brown Nudie-Pix Limerick Contest
By now, the fact that Massachusetts GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown was once the nude centerfold in Cosmo is more well known than the name of the president of France. It's mentioned on Brown's...
View ArticleScott Brown Nudie-Pix Limerick Contest -- Lightning Rod Round
Yesterday, I announced the Scott Brown Nudie-Pix Limerick Contest http://www.dailykos.com/... This followed widespread exposure of Scott Here's-the-Beef Brown, candidate for U.S. Senator from...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Brunner Polls Better Against Portman than That Other Guy
Two polls released today by Rasmussen show Kossack Jennifer Brunner doing marginally better than her nondescript primary opponent against Republican Rob-the-Poor Portman. The new polls reverse...
View ArticleThe Cure for Cluelessness
Once upon a time, I sat near a very beautiful woman in a busy bar, feeling too timid to approach her. I listened in as at least half a dozen guys tried lines on her, each one shot down. After one...
View ArticleThe Blue Denial
A self-proclaimed "progressive" blogger in my state chose yesterday, of all days, to say that the Ohio governor's race, in which the last poll has Republican John Kasich up by 7, "is looking pretty...
View ArticleWhat Massachusetts Means for Ohio
Many important races will be decided next November, but as our old state slogan goes, "Ohio is the Heart of it All." (It's a triple play on the shape of the state, it's central location, and Ohio's...
View ArticleOH-Gov: Battle of the Titanics -- Kasich hits 51% in new Ohio Poll
A new poll by University of Cincinnati/Ohio Newspaper Poll, known as the Ohio Poll, has Republican challenger John Kasich beating Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland by six points, 51-45%:...
View ArticleOH-02: Republican Schmidt Down with Incumbentitis According to New Poll --...
Who says that voters only blame incumbent Democrats? One week ago, I wrote that of Ohio's eight incumbent GOP US representatives, one, Jean Schmidt of OH-02, is especially vulnerable to losing this...
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies, and Ohio Statistics
Let's begin with a guided meditation. After reading the next few paragraphs, close your eyes, and envision yourself in the situation of a swing voter in the center of southern Ohio, Appalachian...
View ArticleScamtrak: Amish Buggies Would Outpace Ohio Governor's Half-Billion-$ Snail...
It could be the plot of a dystopian novel from the pen of a Sarah Palin ghostwriter. But no, it's the serious suggestion of Ohio's Democratic governor, Ted Unelectable Strickland: Take $400 million...
View ArticleShould the Sea World Killer Whale be Stoned to Death? A Solomonic Solution
According to an article in Pink News http://www.pinknews.co.uk/... , the right-wing American Family Association wants the orca Tillikum, involved in the death of Sea World trainer Dawn Brancheau,...
View ArticleOH-02: Krikorian Steps to Plate in Support of the HCR Bill
David Krikorian, the leading Democratic candidate in the race to unseat Jean Schmidt in OH-02, today issued a brief statement and longer Op-Ed piece urging passage of the Health Care Reform Bill....
View ArticleOH-Gov: Battle of the Titanics -- Strickland Tanks in New PPP Poll
D-leaning PPP is out with a new poll of the Ohio governor's race today that shows incumbent Democratic governor Ted Strickland trailing Republican John Kasich 42-37%....
View ArticleOH-Sen: Brunner Trumps Fisher in PPP Poll, while Portman Draws a Teabag Splitter
Following up on analysis of polls in the Ohio Governor's race yesterday (see blogroll), today is packed with news about the US Senate race in Ohio, and the news is all good for Jennifer Brunner....
View ArticleOH-02: Jean Schmidt Fakes Being Targeted for Assassination -- AGAIN!
Some Republicans still think their Schmidt don't stink. Indeed, Mean Jean ranks as one of the deep thinkers of the GOP, the creme de la creeps, one of the illiterati who couch their opposition to...
View ArticleOH-02: Chili con Carny...or...the Anti-Krikorian Swindle, with NEWS
The 2010 race in Ohio's 2nd district has been set as a match between incumbent Republican Jean Schmidt and Democrat David Krikorian, with the latter holding advantage. Schmidt has known that,...
View ArticleOH-02: Congressmen Give Primary Endorsements to Krikorian, with Breaking NEWS
Two powerful sitting Democrats in the U.S. Congress have taken the highly unusual step of giving a primary endorsement to David Krikorian, now far in the lead for the Democratic nomination in...
View ArticleOH-02: Krikorian Gets Big Veterans Endorsement
David Krikorian, frontrunner in the race to unseat Republican Jean Hittite Microwave Schmidt, has scored a rare primary endorsement from Veterans' Vision. VV is a national non-profit advocating for...
View ArticleOH-02: Yalamanschmilli Push Polls...or... "Hey, this Chili was made in New...
In a continuing series titled Lies, Lies, Anastasia Pantsios at OhioDailyBlog.com wrote last Friday:I really hate politicians who deliberately lie about their opposition, turning their strengths...
View ArticleOH-02: Breaking News: "A Guy With a Name Like That Can't Win"
Just two days ago, I published a diary about Republican-Democratic collusion in Ohio's second district, collusion not only in this years race, but in the 2008 race, and going back all the way to...
View ArticleOH-02: The Swiftboating of David Krikorian -- Olbermann Joins Jean Schmidt...
Note: Based on comments, I have changed the title of this diary. Because SW Ohio really is threatened by a wave of muck and slime, most evident from the current swiftboating tactics, I had tried to...
View ArticleOH-02: Beating Jean Schmidt
Ohio's primary election is tomorrow. Two editorial commentaries on the OH-02 congressional race have been published in the past few days, one honest, the other not. The honest commentary comes...
View ArticleOhio Primary Day: Wake Up and Smell the Chili!
I LOVE DEMOCRATS! Over the past 24 hours, rank-and-file Democrats have been calling or dropping in to Krikorian headquarters, offering encouragement and volunteer help. They are responding to the...
View ArticleOhio Primary: Dems Take a Dive, and a Dive, and a Dive, and....
Yes, there's bad news from the Ohio primary, and bad news, or, as they say, "worse, worser, and worst" for Democrats. Turnout for Democrats was abysmally, shockingly low. Even though there are...
View ArticleThe Oil Age Hemorrhage
Some days ago, a front-page diary on DailyKOS held a contest to name the oil gusher in the Gulf. I didn't care for any of the choices, but I wasn't quick enough to come up with this obvious entry:...
View ArticleObama's Ohio Stimulus Message 180 Degrees Wrong: Stop Building Frickin' Roads!
Kicking the national addiction to oil and building more roads are diametrically opposed as policy positions. But President Obama appeared giddily unaware of the contradiction when he christened the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Serious Ethics Complaint Filed Against GOP Congress-Entity Jean...
Efforts by Jean Primordialooze Schmidt to qualify for a congressional pension may yet hit a snag. Schmidt, who represents Ohio's second district (where I live), and whose reelection this November...
View ArticleOH-Gov: Clash of the Titanics: New Poll Says Ohioans Want "None of the Above"
Ted-Heads, led by blogger Brian Hester (a former Strickland staff aide) are already celebrating a new poll by Rasmussen, of all things, that shows the gubernatorial race tightening slightly, with...
View ArticleOH-Gov: Clash of the Titanics: Strickland Stricken, 9 Points Down -- It's...
Not since the 1900 Presidential election, when voters had to choose between war-monger McKinley and Darwin-denier William Jennings Bryan, have the two major parties presented American voters with...
View ArticleCongress Hinges on Ohio and Ohio is Coming Unhinged
If control of the House and/or Senate flips to Republicans narrowly, it will be because of lost seats and lost opportunities in Ohio. Five of Ohio's ten Democratic Representatives are in...
View ArticleOH-Sen: The One Way that Lee Fisher can Win, with New Poll Results
Besides other bad news for Lee Fisher, last week scientists at the Low-Energy Physics division of CERN announced their finding that Fisher is the anti-particle of charisma. Let's just say that in...
View ArticleOH-Gov: Clash of the Titanics: Kasich Topping 50% in New Poll
Last week, Reuters-IPSOS set things straight on the Ohio Governor's race by showing Republican John Kasich beating incumbent Ted Strickland by nine points, 48-39. Today, Rasmussen confirms those...
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