Ohio GOP Racing Storm Clouds

[OzarkDem]

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 25 -- Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) wants you to know he is not President Bush, whose popularity has plummeted.

Nor is he Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, who was fined for taking unreported gifts.

In a campaign stop in the town of Solon last week, Rep. Sherrod Brown, left, said his opponent "voted for the Iraq war. I voted against the Iraq war." (By Melina Mara -- The Washington Post)

Or Texas Rep. Tom DeLay, who is under indictment.

Or Ohio Rep. Robert W. Ney, who is under investigation.

Yet the well-publicized troubles of DeWine's GOP colleagues are becoming one of the biggest obstacles to his election to a third term in November against an energized Democratic opponent, Rep. Sherrod Brown, and his long-thwarted party that smells a chance to paint red-state Ohio a shade of blue...



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032500857.html?referrer=emailarticle

[theHandpuppet]

1. Question about DeWine's record

Isn't there a congressional scorecard which keeps track of how many times a Senator or Congressman votes the party line? I know there are groups that keep their own congressional scorecard -- such as the HRC, some unions, etc. But is there an overall scorecard? I seem to remember one being referenced with regard to (WV) Shelley Moore Capito's voting record. If such a scorecard exists, DeWine could be made to eat his denials.

[Lefty48197]

2. Here's DeWine with that Bush guy that he hardly knows:

...and with hardcore right winger Zell Miller too.