Mitt Romney is on the wrong side of Ohio voters

As we turn to Ohio, it is worth reminding the voters of Ohio of where Mitt Romney stood on Senate Bill 5, the law that stripped unions of their collective bargaining rights.

While Mittens, per his usual, flipped and flopped on the issue, his final position is now definitive:

While he was in Ohio on Tuesday, Romney seemed to distance himself from anti-union measures that have lost popularity in recent months. Campaigning a day later, the former Massachusetts governor told reporters that he supports the ballot measure aimed at restricting collective bargaining rights for state employees.

"I'm sorry if I created any confusion in that regard. I fully support Gov. (John) Kasich's - I think it's called Question Two in Ohio. Fully support that," Romney said after visiting a local GOP office in the Washington suburbs. "Actually, on my website, I think back as early as April, I laid out that I support Question Two and Gov. Kasich's effort to restrict collective bargaining in Ohio."

That's where Mitt Romney stands. He is 110 percent against union rights. However, the voters of Ohio spoke loud and clear last November:

Voters on Tuesday defeated by a wide margin a law that would have restricted the powers of unions representing teachers, police officers and other public-sector workers.

The law would have stripped the state's 350,000 public employees of most of their collective-bargaining rights and forced workers to pay at least 15% of their health-care costs. With 97% of precincts reporting, 61% of voters in a referendum voted against the Republican-backed law, known as Senate Bill 5, while 39% supported it.

Romney amped up his anti-union rhetoric in Michigan, and that's fine for the primary. I'm sure the 39 percent that supported SB5 are going to be his stomping grounds. But the broad center of the electorate, as evidenced by the vote to repeal SB5, is solidly in favor of union rights. Branding Mitt Romney as an Ohio union buster shouldn't be difficult in light this fact. Once again, just for the record, the center is not between two made up ideological poles. The center is wherever the majority is. Mitt Romney is on the wrong side of the center and the majority in Ohio.

Perhaps the media might consider questioning Romney on where he stands on this issue today. You never know with Mitt.