If Ohio politics is ever to have its own version of the "Thrilla in Manila," the brutal, 14-round bout between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in 1975, the 2010 election is likely to be it.
From now to the Nov. 2 election, Democrats and Republicans in Ohio will be going to war - a war with many fronts and with higher stakes than any Ohio election in a generation.
An entire decade is at stake, because the party that comes out on top is very likely to dominate Ohio politics for at least the next 10 years.
For the Ohio Democratic Party, this is the year when they hope to deliver the knockout punch to Republicans.
After two statewide elections - 2006 and 2008 - in which Democrats took back the offices of governor, attorney general and secretary of state, won a majority of Ohio's U.S. House delegation, gained control of the Ohio House and delivered the state's 20 electoral votes to Barack Obama last year, the Democrats are looking to hold on to their dominant position and maybe build upon it.
The Ohio Republican Party, with new state chairman Kevin DeWine at the helm, sees an opportunity for a major comeback, fueled by Ohio's double-digit unemployment rate and the state's budget woes. They are watching as the once-astronomical approval ratings of both President Obama and the Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, plummet; and they are convinced that voters, when they go to the polls in November, will be looking for change.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100102/NEWS0108/1030305/1169/2010+to+be+a+titanic+election+year
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