An Ohio voter on Jerry Springer and STAR TREK:

Since this is Ohio day on the corner I would like to point something out to Jerry Springer’s campaign. If he thinks that drawing the unemployed couch potato vote will swing next year’s senate election he should think again. In last year’s governor’s race we saw that not even the power of Star Trek was able to dent the GOP’s control of the state (every major state office is held by a Republican along with both senate seats) . Tim Hagen, the Democratic candidate for Governor, was totally unable to capitalize on his wife being Star Trek Voyager’s Captain Janeway. Now it seems to me that the average Trekkie has a little more ambition (conventions and all) than the average unemployed Springer fan. Hagan was even running against the insainly unelectable Bob Taft. Then again maybe Springer is more of a motivator than I give him credit. One question though, has anyone (besides Jonah) thought to question if Jerry is doing this solely for the publicity? He’s facing an opponent who’s very popular, twice elected to the Governor’s office and easily won his first senate race. Not a very winable race. His motives HAVE to be drawn into question. He hasn’t even lived in the state for a decade. I think George Voinovich is safe unless someone is able to convince Jim Tressel to run against him. If that were the case Voinovich would have as much chance of winning as San Diego State does this fall in Ohio Stadium. But that’s another story for another day.