Linda Killian -- Politics Daily

Published: 09/12/10

As Ohio Goes, So Go the Midterms -- and Possibly 2012

In this "swingiest of swing states," as one Ohioan described the Buckeye State to me recently, no political party has a lock on voters' affections. Politicians have to earn it, election by election. And right now, the advantage that Democrats won in 2008 with Barack Obama's victory and the pickup of U.S. and state House seats is seriously threatened. If current polls are correct and the election were held tomorrow, it's a good bet the GOP would sweep the board in Ohio, taking back the governorship, at least a couple of U.S. House seats, the state House and hold onto the U.S. Senate seat ...

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Published: 09/11/10

Turning Around Ohio -- or Turning Gov. Strickland Out of Office?

LORDSTOWN, Ohio -- In 2006, Democrat Ted Strickland campaigned for governor using the slogan "Turnaround Ohio." It was an approach that worked gangbusters: Strickland carried 72 of 88 counties and won the governorship with 61 percent of the vote. He is now running behind in his bid for re-election primarily because most Ohioans feel that turnaround was short-lived -- that the state is worse off now than when Strickland took office. Republican candidate and former member of Congress John Kasich is leading Strickland by a margin ranging from 8 to 12 points or more in various polls, but the ...

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Published: 09/4/10

Virginia Democrat Tom Perriello: Trying to Fight His Way Out of Trouble

It's still a little more than eight weeks to Election Day, a long time in modern politics, and the outcome is far from certain -- but polls out this week have Democrats plenty worried. Among the most concerned is first-term Virginia congressman Tom Perriello, who already knew he was running uphill. Two years of recession have made it a tough environment for any Democrat in a swing state. But Virginia's 5th Congressional District went Democratic in the 2008 Obama tide by a mere 727 votes -- and so in January 2009, as Tom Perriello took the oath of office, Republicans were already plotting how ...

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