Strickland wins it for Clinton

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Joe Hallett, The Columbus Dispatch - Mar. 9th, 2008

http://www.limaohio.com/story.php?IDnum=50313


...That award went to Gov. Ted Strickland. Although Sen. Clinton clearly benefited from the 27 Ohio events headlined by her husband and the 12 college visits made by daughter Chelsea, Strickland was the surrogate who delivered the most in Clinton’s sweeping 10-point Ohio victory over Sen. Barack Obama.

A batch of Ohio political observers and others around the country last week agreed nobody was more important to Clinton’s Ohio win than Strickland.

“She won because she was extraordinarily, enthusiastically supported by Ted Strickland in places where he is very strong and popular,” said the Rev. Marvin McMickle, a black Cleveland leader and Obama supporter...

Even in a year when the stars are aligned for Democrats, Clinton or Obama will need all that Strickland can do for them in November — including putting his name on the ticket.



The Clinton victory
What happened in Ohio and what it means for Democrats

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/06/demrecap.ART_ART_03-06-08_A1_3R9I76D.html?sid=101

Thursday, March 6, 2008 3:34 AM
By Joe Hallett and Jonathan Riskind
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



During her Ohio victory speech Tuesday night in Columbus, Sen. Hillary Clinton bespoke a historical fact: "If we want a Democratic president, we need a Democratic nominee who can win the battleground states just like Ohio."

In the past 116 years, only two Democrats -- Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 and John F. Kennedy in 1960 -- have ascended to the White House while losing Ohio.

Clinton won her battle in Ohio against Sen. Barack Obama by

10 percentage points, and she stunningly took all but five of the state's 88 counties. That cast doubt on Obama's oft-made claim that he would be the party's strongest general-election candidate...

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1. The line she is unelectable is nothing more than campaign rhetoric by Obama.