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bulloney

(4,113 posts)
Fri May 2, 2014, 07:51 PM May 2014

I don't know how the Ohio Democratic Party does it.

As the May primaries approach, our mailbox is getting slammed with flyers and our phone with robocalls scaring us into believing that the liberals are causing all of the problems in Ohio.

I can't figure how they are doing it, considering the Republicans have held the governor's seat for 19 of the last 23 years. Republicans have controlled the Senate every year since '93 and the House all but a couple of years since that time. They've also controlled most, if not all elected statewide administrative seats (Sec of State, AG, Auditor, Treasurer, etc) since '93 and held most of the seats on the Ohio Supreme Court since then.

Yet, we're constantly being told that we cannot return the liberals back to Columbus and aggravate the problems they've created in the state government.

Somebody help me out...how have the liberals been such an influence when they haven't controlled ANYTHING in Ohio for the better part of the last 20 years?

In case someone is questioning my mood

The other thing that's so stupid about this whole thing about returning the liberals to Columbus--the Repubs are acting like this is the general election. The obscene amounts of money for misguided campaign flyers and robocalls is asinine.

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I don't know how the Ohio Democratic Party does it. (Original Post) bulloney May 2014 OP
I blame religion... Wounded Bear May 2014 #1
There's a lot of that in Ohio, that's for sure. bulloney May 2014 #2
Emmanuel Goldstein is a cunning, duplicitious and devious enemy of the people and the state Fumesucker May 2014 #3
Emmanuel. Clever. Scuba May 2014 #4
not quite hfojvt May 2014 #6
maybe it's all those mayors hfojvt May 2014 #5

Wounded Bear

(58,648 posts)
1. I blame religion...
Fri May 2, 2014, 07:55 PM
May 2014

It seems to me that only a religious fanatic could live with such diametrically opposed viewpoints. The cognitive dissonance would make a sane person's head explode.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
3. Emmanuel Goldstein is a cunning, duplicitious and devious enemy of the people and the state
Fri May 2, 2014, 08:11 PM
May 2014
"The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department."

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
5. maybe it's all those mayors
Sat May 3, 2014, 03:46 AM
May 2014

so far I have found Cleveland, Cincinnati and Dayton to have Democratic mayors.

Columbus also a Democrat. Toledo an independent.

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