If it can hang like it is for another week, Ohio will fall over to the Democratic side.
The home of "Taft Republicanism" is pretty well pissed off at the last Taft (another Bob) and his cronies AND his policies. Truthfully, Strickland is too conservative for my taste and I'd prefer someone else, but it looks pretty good for him at the moment.
In the senate race, Congressman Brown is leading Senator DeWine by a LARGE margin and if at least some of it holds..............I heard today that DeWine still has 4 mil of personal campaign funds but the GOP National has pulled all financial support from his campaign, evidently to be thrown in down in Tennessee where they are desperate to beat Ford. Also, it appears that there is virtually no TV time available here to buy so DeWine will not be able to swamp the market with more of his bullshit.
As strongly Republican asOhio has been over the past century plus, it isn't uncommon to send a Democrat to the Senate. Matter of fact, the most liberal Dem to be in the Senate in years was Howard Metzenbaum who we sent back for about 20 years total. Sherrod Brown has been a very progressive Congressman and I expect good things from him in the Senate......if he wins......and I think it's likely. He was one of the very few on either house to stand against the Iraq war and the Patriot act crap.
I will be voting Tuesday but I feel that I am voting FOR someone for change.