mikelewis
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Sun Jan-15-06 01:14 AM
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I'm completely ignorant of the politics of my own state... |
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Is there a site that can sort of give me a crash course in whose who and whats what?
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rg302200
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Sun Jan-15-06 02:10 AM
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1. Here are two that I go to... |
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Maybe someone will have some different ones....
www.blue88.com
www.ohiodems.org
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Kukesa
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Sun Jan-15-06 11:04 AM
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2. Stick around the Ohio forum, mike. |
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It won't take long for you to catch up.
We're a rowdy bunch, but you won't get bored here.
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Ninga
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Sun Jan-15-06 12:02 PM
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3. If possible, get plugged into your local Dem party organization. Also |
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and DFA (formerly Dean For American, now DEMOCRACY for America) organization. Nothing can replace the experience of on the ground, civic activism.
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Kolesar
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Mon Jan-16-06 04:55 PM
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4. The Plain Dealer edited a book of essays on the subject |
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I read the first chapter. (Hey, I'm busy)
There is a big divide between a conservative south, settled by Virginians and the north, settled by New Englanders and Germans. Those early trends still hold today. The northerners have a community focus and the southerners are individualistic. Dayton is notably Democratic, though.
Politics are quite different between the extremes and it leads to an odd sort of middle as a compromise. It is not working now, though.
It is pretty profound right now how we are losing good paying jobs. Unfortunately, Ohioans have a tradition of getting out of school and going into low skilled work. We are undereducated.
Eric Fingerhut wrote a thesis on this, but the website is gone.
Ohio pols have always given way too much deference to "King Coal" and favored any development with a whiff of coal dust to it. They wanted the miners vote and the owners money. Problem is, the mines are about gone and only 2000 miners are left.
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