Look at the figures by county and you'll find out just why Bush is trailing in the NE and SE. Half of the State has higher than 7.0% unemployment. The same problems exist just across the border in Western PA. Bush should be strong in SE Ohio and Western PA; he ain't.
That's a far cry from "in the toilet."
"The same problems exist just across the border in Western PA. Bush should be strong in SE Ohio and Western PA; he ain't."
SE Ohio and W PA are Appalachia. The economy hasn't been any good there in forty years since coal and steel began to play out. And it has not been a strong republican area, historically.
Fact is, jobs are picking up briskly in the Cleveland area, if not the City itself; but there are a large clot of braindead democrats who will never admit it, like the parasite from Toledo, even as they leave the house for their job every morning.