Zogby report on Ohio

[SensibleCenterist]

I filled in one of those zogby surveys which gives you a copy of his state-by-state situation reports. Here is the entry for O-Hi-O.

Ohio

Republicans in Ohio are in deep trouble, their governor is the least popular in the country with an approval
rating in the teens and the party is involved in a huge scandal dealing with investing public money in a big
time donor’s coin collection. Mike DeWine could be in danger because of these, but right now he looks like
he is going to cruise to re-election. The Democratic Party in Ohio has been on life support for a number of
years, this might be what it needs to reinvigorate itself, but first it needs a candidate for Senate.

Holy hell in a handbasket! If there are any brains left in Ohio why aren't they dragging Hackett into this? Anyone from Ohio care to comment?

[ray of light]

1. maybe...

we should start a letter writing campaign to Hackett and ask him to run!

[Mr Rabble]

2. Hackett would make too much sense.

I am really disillusioned...

[HootieMcBoob]

3. Calling Major Hackett!

Senator Hackett. Has a nice ring to it :)

[HereSince1628]

4. Why not Kucinich?

I'm not from Ohio and this is an honest question.

[Bumblebee]

6. He is probably way too liberal minus the military experience

for a state which is still at least borderline "red."

[dajoki]

7. i am not from ohio either...

but Kucinich might be to liberal to get elected statewide.

[GracieM]

11. I think Kucinich would lose

I am from Ohio and voted for Kucinich in the primary, but I don't think he'd have a chance.

Taft is going down hard. The Republicans in Columbus are barely keeping their heads above water.

That mistrust is not carrying over to our federal representatives.

I don't' really have any #'s or links, just a report from front.

[Hippo_Tron]

21. Kucinich has never shown any interest

[Teaser]

5. Hacket may not want this.

He's pretty indep. minded. I'm not sure he wants to run for statewide office yet.

[femrap]

8. I refer to Ohio as 'North Texas'....

There was talk of Jerry Springer running....but I haven't heard anything lately. Hackett would be a logical choice to run....but that would make to much sense and the folks here in 'North Texas' don't have much of that....

I grew up in Ohio and returned fairly recently....I don't recognize the state...it would be nice to get it back.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

10. So why ask him?

just duct tape him to a chair and make him run for senate.

[SensibleCenterist]

16. No Duct Tape

The appeal of Hackett is that he speaks the truth and he DOES NOT BACK DOWN. That apparently resonated with the deep-Red voters of Ohio's 2nd district and Schmidt is lucky she won when they assumed her district was safe.

I KNOW it resonated with me, and I'm in California!

He calls a liar a liar and does not apologize for it. He doesn't whither in front of the right-wing slime machine. Like Dean.

So I can't imagine he would lose where all of Ohio gets to vote. If the Deep-Red bias in Ohio's 2nd district is already wiped out, he should carry every non-Red district by even bigger margins.

[halobeam]

9. Each post I am reading puts me further into the disbelief stage.

As one poster above stated, "Holy hell!"....

unFREAKIN' believable.

[Imagevision]

12. They have the Diebold's - of course they'll cruise to victory!

[Jade Fox]

13. Why the hell isn't the national Democratic Party....

pouring money into Ohio? Have they not yet figured out how important
it is??? :eyes:

[OzarkDem]

19. They've begun to

They've hired some regional and statewide coordinators. There are a lot of factions within the Ohio Dem party that struggle with each other for power - AA leaders, big labor, neocon DLC types, upstate, downstate, rural, etc. Everyone has their own agenda and they have alot of turf battles. It makes it hard for anyone to come in and try to unify the party. Its been a major problem for Dem presidential candidates in the last few elections.

[fob]

22. Get Senator John Glenn to lead the search!

As far as I've read/seen/heard he's well liked across the spectrum with his astronaut service and all.

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[liberalpragmatist]

15. They are trying to get Hackett into the race

Reps. Sherrod Brown and Tim Ryan would also be good choices, and both have expressed interest. But the party is also actively trying to get Hackett into the race. Ted Strickland, the likely gubernatorial nominee, has said he would support a Hackett race and plenty of people have been talking to Hackett to convince him to run. He has been non-commital.

[safi0]

17. I'm 99.9% certain

That one of those 3, Hackett, Brown or Ryan, will be Dewine's opponent.

[OzarkDem]

18. Actually they have a wealth of candidates

Hackett is being considered. Also interested are Cong. Sherrod Brown and former Congressman and state senator Eric Fingerhut.

Dem party leadership in Ohio sucks. The headquarters has always been run by a bizarre mix of neo-con Labor leaders and DLC wannabes who want to run Jerry Springer for any open seat. Their main criteria for considering a candidate's quality is whether he has a million bucks to spend on his own race or has an Irish sounding last name.

Hacketts race broke every rule in the Ohio Dem rule book, so hopefully we'll be rid of these idiots soon.

[Kolesar]

20. Ohio Dems have such a dearth of candidates that they better run Hackett

Cle Plain Dealer reported real interest in Paul Hackett for Senate http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=172x7759

[MercutioATC]

23. Beware of Blackwell.

I have some info that he's being groomed by the GOP for a bigger arena than Ohio in 6 years (if you get my drift).

[deadparrot]

24. Has Hackett said anyting on the possibility of a Senate run?

Methinks with DeWine's numbers, and Hackett's strong showing in one of the state's reddest areas, he'd almost certainly win.