Dave at “[email protected]” sends along this contribution to the new civility: “I would like to punch you in the face. Ted lost to empty promises and fake hopes. You are in the middle class and still are a lover of the Republican Party??? You are an Idiot!”

I presume he’s referring to Ted Strickland and upset about this post.

You know, that’s not even the most outrage-triggering thing I wrote that day. Maybe not even that hour.

If I really wanted to drive a Ted Strickland fan into a frenzy, I would point out that he inherited a state with an unemployment rate of 5.3 percent and left John Kasich a state with 9.3 percent unemployment, a terrible, terrible number. The good news is 551,000