Ohio shocker: GOP closes early voting gap, boosting Romney

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In a remarkable reversal of fortune for President Obama in Ohio, the GOP has closed the huge gap in absentee ballot requests used by early voters that favored the Democrats and the president in 2008, setting up what one state analyst said could be a Mitt Romney blowout on Election Day.

Even more dramatic, while the GOP has cut the Democratic advantage in early voting throughout the state, the changes favoring the Republicans in certain counties has been huge. In Franklin County, home to Columbus, for example, a 2008 Democratic advantage of 5 percent is now a 5 percent GOP advantage. In Cuyahoga County, home to Democratic Cleveland, the GOP has shaved six points off the Democrat's 2008 advantage. And in Hamilton County, home to Cincinnati, Republicans have expanded their 2008 advantage to 13 percent.



http://washingtonexaminer.com/ohio-shocker-gop-closes-early-voting-gap-boosting-romney/article/2509838?custom_click=rss

[kramarat]

Obama's going down.

[tbone0106]

Here in Ohio's heartland, I have to drive a LONG way indeed to find more than a handful of Dear Leader's yard signs. On the contrary, this county is positively festooned with Romney/Ryan signs! My frontage is, of course, a smorgasbord of pro-Pub signs, but I'm telling you, I can only think of two, maybe three yards in my normal travels that sport that blue sign.

And understand too, our local Pub party office has not yet received a single "free" Romney yard sign. The ones I see all over the place were ordered and paid for by the folks who own the property where they're posted. The Dear Leader signs are probably recycled from 2008.

[bluelieu]

Here in Ohio's heartland, I have to drive a LONG way indeed to find more than a handful of Dear Leader's yard signs. On the contrary, this county is positively festooned with Romney/Ryan signs! My frontage is, of course, a smorgasbord of pro-Pub signs, but I'm telling you, I can only think of two, maybe three yards in my normal travels that sport that blue sign.

And understand too, our local Pub party office has not yet received a single "free" Romney yard sign. The ones I see all over the place were ordered and paid for by the folks who own the property where they're posted. The Dear Leader signs are probably recycled from 2008.

In the immortal words of Chrissy Hynde:

FROM SENECA TO CUYAHOGA FALLS
SAID, A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO

[tbone0106]

In the immortal words of Chrissy Hynde:

FROM SENECA TO CUYAHOGA FALLS
SAID, A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO

You know, I didn't like that song thirty years ago, and I still don't. Chrissie Hynde had that dull, super-serious oh-so-important tone that made me want to stab her with a sharpened stick. Yeah, it's been Rush's intro bumper music for decades, and I can't hear any part of the song without thinking I'll be hearing Rush's voice any second. But I've never understood it.

Hynde is a native of Ohio -- Akron. There is no Seneca, Ohio. There were Seneca Indians, and there's a Seneca County, and a Seneca Lake, and Seneca Caverns. There's a Seneca Falls that might line up with Cuyahoga Falls, but it's in New York. She also mentions South Howard. There is a Howard, Ohio, and I've been there many times, hoisted many a brew in the old Derrick Inn. But there is no South Howard, Ohio, and never has been.

Despite its gritty, ultra-realistic reputation, the song must just be about magical, imaginary places.

[bluelieu]

You know, I didn't like that song thirty years ago, and I still don't. Chrissie Hynde had that dull, super-serious oh-so-important tone that made me want to stab her with a sharpened stick. Yeah, it's been Rush's intro bumper music for decades, and I can't hear any part of the song without thinking I'll be hearing Rush's voice any second. But I've never understood it.

Hynde is a native of Ohio -- Akron. There is no Seneca, Ohio. There were Seneca Indians, and there's a Seneca County, and a Seneca Lake, and Seneca Caverns. There's a Seneca Falls that might line up with Cuyahoga Falls, but it's in New York. She also mentions South Howard. There is a Howard, Ohio, and I've been there many times, hoisted many a brew in the old Derrick Inn. But there is no South Howard, Ohio, and never has been.

Despite its gritty, ultra-realistic reputation, the song must just be about magical, imaginary places.

Actually, there is some good in the song...the intro is Rush Limbaugh's theme song.

[tbone0106]

Actually, there is some good in the song...the intro is Rush Limbaugh's theme song.

Yeah... But if there was just one thing I could change about Rush's show with a wave of my magic wand, it would be that intro music. I've never heard the story of how/why that particular song became his theme intro.

Say, do you suppose Rush is Chrissie's long-lost papa? 

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I love the theme song.  Here's his explanation in his own words:

Here I'm choosing as a theme song a song that rips them to shreds, but I didn't really pick it for the lyrics because I don't play the lyrics. I picked it simply because it had an unmistakable, totally recognizable bass line, and it was so unexpected.

It was the last thing that this highly sophisticated, conservative audience in Sacramento would ever associate with a conservative program. So it was part of being unpredictable, part of doing the unexpected, and the fact that I just happened to like it. All those three went into the decision. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/05/13/origins_of_the_eib_theme_song

[bluelieu]

Yeah... But if there was just one thing I could change about Rush's show with a wave of my magic wand, it would be that intro music. I've never heard the story of how/why that particular song became his theme intro.

Say, do you suppose Rush is Chrissie's long-lost papa? 

Interestingly enough, the EMI music mavins sued to stop Rush from using it and he removed it.  Chrissy Hynde heard about it and let him use it because her parents listened to his show ( sorry for the wiki):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_City_Was_Gone

[tbone0106]

Interestingly enough, the EMI music mavins sued to stop Rush from using it and he removed it.  Chrissy Hynde heard about it and let him use it because her parents listened to his show ( sorry for the wiki):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_City_Was_Gone

The Wiki's cool. It gives us all something to frown upon.