Gubernatorial Race
- Quinnipiac releases very, very bad news for Ted Strickland: John Kasich is up by a whopping 17 points.
- The Columbus Dispatch releases a helpful fact check of Tuesday’s debate showing that taxes decreased only because Republicans were in power in 2005. There goes Strickland’s tax cutter line:
One fact Strickland emphasized is not disputed: Ohio income-tax rates have declined by more than 17 percent since 2005, when Republicans enacted a sweeping overhaul of state taxes.
- His fiscal responsibility argument is in bad shape, too, given that Kasich just got endorsed by the Ohio Society of CPAs.
- Strickland’s machine lackeys out working the campaign theme:
[T]hree municipal chief executives — Jay Williams of Youngstown, Michael O’Brien of Warren and Glenn Holmes of McDonald — staged a media event outside City Hall downtown to mark the second anniversary of the collapse of the financial services firm Lehman Brothers.
Senatorial Race
- A CNN/Time poll puts Portman up 11 points and Kasich up 7.
- Politifact is really not happy with Rob Portman for claiming the stimulus failed.
- News5WLWT has some interesting video (non-embeddable) of competing Portman/Fisher rallies in Cincinnati.
House Races
- Steve Driehaus is deep in trouble over voter enthusiasm, and his crush on Obama doesn’t seem to be helping.
- And Steve Chabot is out with another negative ad pointing out why:
- Meanwhile, John Boccieri goes protectionist:
U.S. Rep. John Boccieri, D-Alliance, weighed in Wednesday on efforts to pass tougher trade laws aimed at punishing China for undervaluing its currency to gain a trade advantage on American manufacturers.
It’s a situation that has U.S. manufacturing companies caught in a “rigged game against foreign competitors,” Boccieri said in a statement before the House Ways and Means Committee. The foreign competitors often don’t have to meet U.S. business standards and receive substantial support from their national governments.
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