"Romney go home!"
Yes! A group of protesters was able to voice their dissaproval of Romney during his "stump speech". Romney on Sunday gave an abbreviated campaign speech from the bed of a pickup truck in Boehner's...
View ArticleJoe the Plumber releases ad blaming gun control for the Holocaust
This is the actual ad from "Joe," the aspirational plumber. It only looks like Onionesque satire because you're not batshit insane. Via Politicker: Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, the 2008...
View ArticleHi, Joe the Plumber! I'm a Jew. Now will you please shut up?
In the latest Nazi invocation and disrespect to victims of the Holocaust, Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka "Joe the Plumber," blamed gun control for the Holocaust (see Hunter's front-page diary for the...
View ArticleOH-Gov 2014: List of Potential Candidates
Continuing on with my series of lists of potential candidates for state governorships in 2014, Ohio is the next state to be featured as part of this series. The incumbent Governor is Republican John...
View ArticleAnd now for the Farm Report ...
Spring has come early in the Buckeye state. And so has the harvest. Farmers harvesting food crops early after warm spring by Mary Vanac, Columbus Dispatch -- June 21, 2012 [...] This year’s early...
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Mitt Romney to Rick Scott: Hush up about Florida's dropping unemployment
Gov. Rick Scott (Andrew Innerarity/Reuters) Mitt Romney's message that President Obama is holding the economy back and everything would be better under President Mitt is a tough one to sustain in key...
View ArticleRemember the Soldier a Republican Audience Booed? He Endures Another...
It's impossible to forget. A young gay man serving his country in Iraq asks the prospective Republican nominees about their attitude towards repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. And the audience boos....
View ArticleThe Forecast calls for an early Harvest, Farmers
Spring has come early in the Buckeye state. And so has the harvest. Here's this week's semi-random "Farm Report" ... brought to you by Factory Farmers of America, "We make business of farming boom."...
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All these links between Michelle Rhee and the far right are no coincidence
Michelle Rhee (Hyungwon Kang/Reuters) Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst organization didn't just lobby to get its agenda inserted into Ohio's anti-union Senate Bill 5, it gave $100,000 to an Ohio Chamber...
View ArticlePPP: Obama slips some in OH, but Romney still wildly unpopular
The poll released today had some good news/bad news for the President. The bad news: his lead over Romney has slipped 4 points to +3 since PPP's last poll in May. The race now stands at Obama 47%...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Mixed news for the president on a...
There was a surprisingly heavy polling load today, particularly some House internals that show Democratic competitiveness in races that were well off of the watch lists for both parties. There were...
View ArticleObama campaign ties Mitt Romney to Ohio anti-union law
Ohio voters didn't just hand Senate Bill 5/Issue 2, Gov. John Kasich's signature anti-union law, a major defeat at the polls in November—one poll suggested voters would hold support for the law...
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Obama, Democratic senators lead in three Quinnipiac swing state polls
Florida state seal Quinnipiac. 6/19-25. Florida voters. MoE ±2.8%. (6/12-18 results in parentheses): Barack Obama (D-inc): 45 (46) Mitt Romney (R): 41 (42) Undecided: 9 (6) Bill Nelson (D-inc): 41...
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Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Quinnipiac dominates the day with...
On another data-heavy day, the big headline came out of the state of Ohio, where Quinnipiac dropped their latest offering. In a state that is universally defined as a battleground, an Obama +9 poll...
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ALERT: Mid-Atlantic Bracing For Destructive Line of Severe Storms
Almost 2 MILLION people are without power this evening after one of the most destructive derechos in recent memory tore an 800 mile path from Illinois to the Atlantic Coast. Two people are confirmed...
View Article'Nuns on the Bus' passes through Cleveland
The barnstorming social justice tour stopped in northeast Ohio on Tuesday. Their itinerary included a presentation that was one part revival meeting and one part call to action. Cross posted from...
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(Saturday's Severe Weather) + Explanation Of Friday's Event
541PM EDT Update: It looks like the threat of a damaging bow echo like the one we had yesterday is diminishing. The environment instead took the discrete route -- developing individual thunderstorms...
View ArticleFirefighters for Obama & "For once in your lives turn a win into a win" UPDATED
Blackwaterdog and John Cole of Balloon Juice have both posted articles that deserve to be read/viewed and passed along.
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Are national polls understating President Obama's prospects for victory?
President Obama is performing ahead of 2008 margins in Jan Brewer's Arizona (Pete Souza/White House) Early in the week, NBC News (and the Wall Street Journal) released their first national poll in a...
View ArticleThank You, Senators Brown and Casey, for Protecting Kids from Mercury
MomsRising today launched six-figure TV ad buys in Ohio and Pennsylvania to express gratitude for Senator Sherrod Brown’s and Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey’s courageous votes to turn back a proposal...
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