Bizzyblog finds polling that shows its a deal breaker, if voters know about it.

Ted Strickland should be nervous.

Pullins Report has them posted here. Why would Strickland hire such a staffer?

And even after this situation, Ted Strickland STILL wants to hire felons to work in state government.

And it is still doubtful that Strickland paid taxes in Lisbon or Columbus.

Is this the type of Governor that Ohio wants?

In other news, Jerome Corsi in World Net Daily reports on Scott Pullins here: "Sexual rumors swirl in Buckeye State."

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Featuring Ken Blackwell and WHK Personalities Dennis Prager & Hugh Hewitt

The liberal New York Times covers Ohio politics:

Conservative voters have many reasons to be less enthusiastic this year, analysts say, including their party’s deficit spending and the scandal over Mr. Foley’s conduct toward Congressional pages, not to mention an array of local Republican scandals in Ohio. But if the Republican get-out-the-vote drive, known as the 72-Hour Project, lives up to its billing, said Andrew Kohut, head of the Pew center, “the turnout consequences for the G.O.P. might not be as dire as these poll numbers suggest.”

The Republican machine was on full display last weekend in Ohio, where volunteers worked phone banks in all 88 counties on what the state party called Super Saturday. They contacted 100,000 carefully selected potential Republican voters and knocked on the doors of 50,000. When the day was done, Jason Mauk, the political director for the state party, said, “I think that really discredits the notion that Republican voters and volunteers are not energized.”

At one of those phone banks, in downtown Columbus, the energy level was high, fueled by endless trays of doughnuts, bagels and pizza. Shift after shift of volunteers rotated through, with a steady murmur of voices reading a script, urging a vote, offering to arrange an absentee ballot: “This is a very important election year, and your vote will help determine Ohio’s future.”

One of the volunteers, Laurie Sutton, said: “I hit the phone banks every night. I’m addicted to it.”

At midday, several of the top Republican candidates came by to rally the troops. Betty Montgomery, who is running for state attorney general, acknowledged the challenges facing Republicans this year but summoned the memory of the Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes. “We know how to win,” she said. “We know the fundamentals. He would say, ‘Execute the fundamentals!’ ”

Ms. Montgomery recalled the 2004 election, when Ohio delivered the presidency to Mr. Bush, largely on the basis of the Republican turnout operation. “We blew their socks off,” she said of the Democrats. “They didn’t know what hit them.”

But what about the Democrats?

Mr. Kelley and a handful of fellow Democrats in Franklin County’s 21st Ward began meeting about two years ago, calling themselves Grassroots 21. Today they have a newsletter, a blog and on one recent Sunday a sprawling audience crammed into Mr. Kelley’s suburban backyard for a rally on a semi-rainy day.

Mr. Kelley reminded his friends that he vowed two years ago he would not die under a Bush administration. “You can see I’ve been holding on,” he said as the audience roared.

Mr. Kelley is 89. And angry. He says he simply “can’t wait” for Election Day.

Anger, rage and pessimism do not win elections. In 2004, John Kerry was simply the "anti-George Bush", and we all saw how well that worked for the Democrats.