Gubernatorial Race
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Strickland’s office gets its Richard Nixon on, intercepting emails between the Columbus Dispatch and the State Inspector General’s office. The people responsible for this creepiness have been fired.
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Less thankfully, Ted Strickland is still getting his Gordon Gekko on (as I document over on the home page) and thus far no one’s called him on it.
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RCP calls Ted Strickland’s situation “not a strong place for an incumbent to be” a month out from the election, even with the decreased poll numbers of John Kasich. But Strickland has a secret weapon…bring back Joe Biden! Because it worked so well the last time.
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Politics Daily asks the hard questions — like how old John Kasich and Ted Strickland are.
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Ted Strickland gets booed at a student rally, proving that the left is losing its grip on the younger demographic groups. And one student newspaper makes him and John Kasich sound virtually indistinguishable.
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Strickland slashes taxes on alternative energy companies. Presumably Newpage–see the Gekko link above–is among them.
Senate Race
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Lee Fisher, he of the scandal-ridden Department of Development, proposes a plan for government accountability! Irony is utterly lost on Democrats. This is probably as brilliant as his other plan to “Clean up Washington” — making people fly coach.
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No reason to throw good money after bad, the DSCC appears to have decided. They have booked precisely no air time in Ohio for October.
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Meanwhile, Rob Portman and Lee Fisher prepare for their first debate.
House Races
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Tom Ganley, Republican challenger in OH-13, hits the news in a big way — his campaign says he’s being “extorted” by a woman alleging sexual harassment just as his race is turning extremely tight against Betty Sutton.
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Steve Driehaus, Democrat of OH-1 has a new ad out.