Taft rated worst Governor in the country, according to a story tonight on

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WDTN-TV in Dayton. I missed the name of the group who did the rating though. Anyway else catch this? We already know he's the worst so this was no surprise. Guess who's the best? Schwarzenegger! Not sure if I agree with that one though.

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1. That's why Shaft Taft isn't running for re-election.

:D
This is great.

[A Brand New World]

4. I'd like to agree that is why he's not running again but I don't think he

can due to term limits. I don't see how he was re-elected a couple years ago. He has ruined this state.

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6. I know why he won

-All the papers in the state backed him.
-The Dems didn't have any money to pump in there candidates campaign so there was 0 tv time.

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2. I personally support their...

findings!

[SharonAnn]

3. Wow, I was in Dayton until 5 years ago when we moved to Tennessee.

I've missed the relatively civilized government we had in Ohio both at a local and a state level. Guess it's not so great now, after all.

here in Tennessee we have one of the best governors in the country, but the legislature is an absolute joke. With a few exceptions, it's the most bizarre bunch I've ever heard of.

[Divernan]

5. You've obviously had no contact with the PA House of Representatives

NT

[Kolesar]

7. Cato Institute aren't the biggest bunch of a$$#oles

That would be the neocon "think tanks" AEI and the Bradley foundation, with Heritage coming third and Cato fourth. Cato hides behind this "libertarian" mantle, as if not being a religious right wing group gives them credibility.

I would like to see what Cato recommends that we DO to fix Ohio. Cutting public schools and Medicaid budgets are not the answer, either.

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8. Things that make me go ARRGH

The first thing we NEED to do is have an acceptable Democratic Party in Columbus.

Because, quite frankly, running a county commissioner from the only county Dems dominate in Ohio and expecting that nonsense to fly in Dayton or Coshocton or Lima, or running a one term congressman from Northeast Ohio to try and win a senate seat.... well.. *shockingly*... that's just not cutting it.

Somehow, someway, smashed between the car plants in Detroit, the industrial base of Pittsburgh, and the mines of West Virginia, we've managed to cobble together an ineffective labor movement. Somehow, with the worst governor with a worse record than anyone not named McGreevey, we've made NO inroads at the state level.

We've got ONE Democratic state-elected official right now, and she's too busy speeding away from cops with a fifth of bourbon in her hand to care.

It absolutely boggles my mind that this state can have no jobs, no new businesses, a brain drain, and no hope, and NOTHING CHANGES.

We need to start by remembering HOW the party was built in Ohio. It wasn't built like New York or California, and it never will be. We need to remember that we were a state of hard working people, and the party was built by ensuring fair profits for businesses and fair wages for workers. It was built by providing the kind of policies that ensured that companies and people could work together to grow.

Ohio's Democratic Party wasn't built on social issues or anything like that - it was built by hard working people who shared common goals.

How can a city like Cleveland... with a state university downtown, two of the world's best research schools (Case and John Carroll), two of the planet's strongest medical research institutions (University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic), and a hard working tough population of people who don't give up... How can this city be America's poorest? We've got natural gas under the lake, a potential beautiful coastline, Salt mines out east, forests, parks.. everything........ ARRGH!

It makes my head want to explode.