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Ohio?
Is this election coming down to that one state? From a lot of analysis by the talking heads, one might come to that conclusion?
I remember some of the problems in Ohio the last time. Long lines as the polls closed and people not getting to vote. I hope these have been corrected.
Right now, under most of the scenarios, if Obama wins Ohio, WI, and IA, he wins the electoral votes needed. If Romney takes Ohio, it is difficult to see how Obama wins? Of course, this is all speculation but I have no doubt but that Ohio is very important.
The President is running ahead at the moment with a reasonable lead. He should win Ohio. But, as we know, strange things can happen.
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You're thinking about 2004, when we had a Republican gov'r - like now. There were precincts in Democratic areas, mostly African-American, where (1) there weren't enough booths, probably by design, (2) chads - yeah, those! - hadn't been cleaned out, clogging up the machine and not allowing the stylus to go through, and (3) "broken" - or legitimately broken - voting machines cutting the number of available booths sometimes in half. Again, oddly enough (yeah, odd, that), most of this happened in black communities. Ken Blackwell was the SoS, and there's no question in my mind that these were deliberate. Also, I don't think there was early voting back then.
In 2008 - because Ted Strickland was gov'r - the election ran as smooth as Steve Schmidt's head. And in some places, there were Dieibold machines, too.
I do worry about this election - between Kasich and Husted... I don't know. 
