The election cycle is starting in earnest on TV in Ohio, and it’s going to be brutal:

Get ready to see a lot of Ted Strickland, John Kasich, Mary Jo Kilroy, Steve Stivers and other politicians in your living room.
Candidates running in the Nov. 2 election and several outside groups supporting them have reserved more than $11.5 million in commercial time so far at the four broadcast stations in Columbus from today’s unofficial Labor Day kickoff of the fall campaign season through the election, a Dispatch review shows.
The campaigns already have aired $2 million in ads since the May primary election. In all, that’s nearly 17,000 commercials—meaning if you watched them nonstop, it would take you six days to see them all.