Blue Ohio does not translate to local victories.

[Deep13]

While I was delighted to see crushing Dem. victories on the national level, we frankly got creamed in this suburban-to-rural county. All the R. incumbents were reelected. The only D. victory in a contested race was for county prosecutor who was reelected. He is a long-serving incumbent who ran against an unknown. Even his race was closer than it really should have been. In counties like this one, Obama was a drag on the ticket. Plus, I think a lot of the presidential voters did not know anything about local politics and just voted for president and left.

[MeDeMax]

1. indeed

it was as if there were two different electorates, one national and the other local.

[OhioBlue]

2. yes. I think we needed to do a better job of getting the

sample ballot out and work a little more on coordination. But we did get Boccieri. :-) So there is one seat that went R to D.

I don't think Obama was a drag on the ticket. He got more votes than Kerry in the rural county I was volunteering in. We just didn't capitalize on it in the right way.