Brunner single-handedly changed Ohio election laws, through the leftist courts, by allowing same-day registration and voting, and early voting over a week before election day. When our side fought back, she said we were all about ‘disenfranchising the neediest and the minorities.’ All this while the ACORN vans were dropping off the same scum to vote fraudulently at Vet’s Memorial a week before election day.
Yep. Add to that tons of free pizza and you've bought yourself a lot of votes for the Dems.
Brunner is honest and works hard. I don't care for her liberal politics, but she did not throw the last election in favor of Obama. Ohio is a purple state and barely went for Bush in 2000 and 2004. Ohio conservatives were (properly) unenthusiastic about John McCain, and many moderates (properly) viewed him as old and a Washington insider.
The long and difficult Iraq War, Bush's unpopularity and the sinking economy made it easier for anyone, including Barack Obama, to sell Ohio fence-sitters on a major "change" in leadership. IMHO, Al Gore would have won here in 2000, and John Kerry in 2004, if either had faced a 72-year-old John McCain. And either of them would have defeated McCain in 2008, too.
McCain was a weak candidate in a very tough election year. Still, if he had strongly opposed the 2008 bail out (and proposed some alternative -- like a tax cut), he might have won Ohio.