Buckeye Blues (GOP Ohio)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14044965/site/newsweek/

With just over three months until Election Day, White House political adviser Karl Rove hit the campaign trail Tuesday in Ohio, hoping to rev up voters in a state where polls show President George W. Bush and the GOP is in real trouble. Bush’s top political aide was the guest of honor at a $100-a-plate luncheon in Columbus to benefit county parties in central Ohio, a state that is viewed as ground zero in the GOP’s attempts to maintain control of Congress.

A poll released over the weekend showed that Sen. Mike DeWine, a moderate Republican who has notably distanced himself from Bush on the campaign trail, is running 8 percentage points behind his Democratic opponent, Rep. Sherrod Brown. Other Ohio Republicans are in trouble as well, including GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell, who is running 20 points behind Democrat Ted Strickland. Bush, whose approval ratings linger in the low 30s in the state, is scheduled to campaign for Blackwell in Ohio next week.

Yet Rove insisted Tuesday he wasn’t worried, telling supporters that he believes the midterm matchups there and throughout the country are still winnable for the GOP. His talking points were the same: Republicans will win on what will be the two determining issues this fall, the economy and national security. “My message to you is, you did it in ’04,” Rove told the crowd of about 350. “You’ve got the tools, you’ve got the enthusiasm, you’ve got the intensity. Now it’s time to bring it back and do it again in 2006.”

There’s only one problem with Rove’s argument: polls show a majority of Americans still don’t give Bush or his party credit for the economy, while the president’s ratings on his handling of terrorism and national security have dipped in recent weeks. The latest Gallup poll released Tuesday shows that only 39 percent of those surveyed approve of Bush’s handling of the economy—no improvement over poll numbers posted earlier this year. When asked in a recent Gallup survey which party would better handle economic issues, 53 percent of those polled indicated the Democrats.

[msongs]

1. "You've got the tools...." to criminalize all black peope in Ohio

and the repubs black candidate for governor will see that members of his race are denied the right to vote in any way possible.

how can blackwell run for office and still be allowed to oversee/steal elections????? Is this not some kind of sordid conflict
of interest?

Msongs
www.msongs.com/howarddean2008.htm

[rurallib]

2. "you've got the tools" That's a pretty explicit charge to steal ome

for the Bushies, ain't it?

[partylessinOhio]

3. They lose on both counts -

two determining issues this fall, the economy and national security.

[yourout]

4. I give Bush or his party credit for the economy.

I give Bush credit for driving down wages by encouraging outsourcing with tax bennys.
I give Bush credit for shifting the tax load to Joe and Jane Middleclass.
I give Bush credit for spending like a drunk sailor so my boys can also have to work into there 70s.