Ohio is Gone-This is evidence that the GOP is no longer a national party.

[kpete]

Ohio is Gone
by BooMan
Wed Sep 26th, 2012 at 02:32:02 PM EST

Mitt Romney kicked himself in the balls when he opposed the auto bailout, and it's killing him in Ohio. That probably explains something that is puzzling Nate Silver. Why is Obama performing better in Ohio than he is nationally, when that never happens for a Democrat? It's because one in eight jobs in Ohio are tied to the auto industry. It doesn't help that the Republican governor of Ohio picked a high-profile fight with the labor unions and lost. If you think white working class guys in Ohio are lining up to vote for the "plutocrat married to a known equestrian," you are quite mistaken. Ask them who is better on the economy and they will tell you 'Obama.' This is evidence that the GOP is no longer a national party. Ohio is supposed to be a right-leaning state that Democrats can occasionally win. But, right now, it is a left-leaning state. And it will probably stay that way, just like Michigan and Pennsylvania.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/9/26/14322/6881
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/26/politics/romney-ohio/index.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It could not happen to a more deserving party!

I must say how grateful I am to the Mittster for giving us Ohio, and the Nation.

He must have known that this is what we've been waiting for!

[Flashmann]

4. It could not happen to a more deserving party!

No doubt......What makes it all the more delicious,for me,is that these ASSHATS orchestrated their own demise,though of course unintentionally........Still....Self infliction is self infliction under any light one might shine on it....

The party of destruction and obstruction,destroys itself......AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!

[hrmjustin]

2. this might bring a house seat or two to the dems. n/t

[exboyfil]

3. It comes down to the obvious contradiction

of going along with a bail out of the financial sector, but not one for two members of one of our most important manufacturing sectors. That sums up the problem with the U.S. better than anything else could. It is very difficult to have good non-college degree jobs in the financial sector, but that is the bread and butter for the manufacturing sector.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. ...progress in building a blue bridge to the Left Coast! Arizona may be a good start....

[Selatius]

8. New Mexico is left leaning. I always wondered why Arizona wasn't.

To top it off, Arizona, like Maine, adopted a clean elections system where most politicians in the state would rather opt to take full public funding than spend the time raising private cash. They have, essentially, a robust and truly competitive "Public Option" with respect to elections, yet the state still votes right wing. Freaking George W. Bush carried the state twice.

[Kber]

6. My brilliant sister and brother-in-law moved to Ohio about 2 1/2 years ago.

I think that's why the state is trending more blue.

(Well, ok, maybe not the only reason.)

[kalli007]

10. Reason for moving?

Because you may be on to something there, what attracted your Dem relatives may be attracting or turning others already there.

[Kber]

11. School

both are in PhD programs at Ohio State. It is the best program in the world for her discipline and in the top 10 for his.

When she moved, my sister was actually excited to have her vote "count" as both she and her husband had lived in solid blue states previously. However, that wasn't the reason the moved - it was the scholarships from a stellar university that attracted them.

[liberalmuse]

7. My uncles in OH are all working class.

And they've always voted Dem. They know which side their bread is buttered on.

[KamaAina]

9. How ironic that the OxyMoron uses this as his theme

[porphyrian]

12. . n/t

[WCGreen]

13. Ohio is almost a microcosm of the nation.

Deeply spiritual, deeply divided between the north and the south, agriculture, manufacturing, mining, home of the mini ivy league...

Urban and rural, sophisticated and rustic...

Basically, the Eastern part of the US ends at the Cuyahoga River and the Midwest begins to the West of the river.

That is why Ohio is such a bell weather state.