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Clinton, Obama Looking For Ohio Endorsements
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- Date: Jan 28,2008
In the coming weeks, the Clinton and Obama campaigns will begin to ramp up in Ohio. Barack Obama went up on television in Ohio last week with a cable buy. The Clinton campaign is sure to follow. As they begin to disperse staff across the state and open offices, they are going to be looking to build a strong list of endorsements of our elected officials.
So far, the high profile Clinton supporters are Ted Strickland and Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who announced their support a while ago. Governor Strickland campaigned for Hillary in Iowa. Congresswoman Tubbs-Jones was shown several times on camera in the audience of the South Carolina debate applauding Senator Clinton and has made several media appearances supporting Clinton. Late last week, Lt. Governor Lee Fisher added his endorsement. Senator Obama has been endorsed by Columbus Mayor Mike Coleman, Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams, and Cuyahoga County Commissioners Tim Hagan and Peter Lawson Jones. Perhaps Obama's big win Saturday in South Carolina has opened the door for some big endorsements nationally and hopefully here in Ohio.
There are still a lot of prominent Democrats that have yet to endorse that could have a major impact on the race in Ohio.
The person both campaigns have to be going after is Senator Sherrod Brown, who remains neutral in the race, but his endorsement would pull a lot of weight amongst Ohio Democrats. Other prominent Democrats who have yet to endorse include: Cincinnati Mayor and prominent African-American Mark Mallory, prominent Northeast Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic and many others.
The election in Ohio looks like it is going to be close and endorsements matter.
5 Responses for "Clinton, Obama Looking For Ohio Endorsements"
So will Ted continue his staunch support of Hillary if the tide has turned or will he find away to ingratiate himself with the Obama camp?
I'm not sure what Governor Strickland will do. I really hope Senator Brown endorses Obama. It would be a huge boost in the state.
I still do not trust Barack Obama, period.
I don't trust Obama at all. I'd rather vote McCain than Hussein. Hillary is a phenomenal woman who can lead this country.
I am not surprised that Phantom Master and Ms. Piff cannot "trust Obama at all". It must be hard for voters who cannot remember the sense of hope and inspiration Americans felt when Kennedy became president, when Martin Luther King spoke of opportunities and civil rights, when Americans rose to the challenge to try to be better than we were.
Phantom Master and Ms. Piff may be right. And maybe the Kennedys and M.L. King were just charismatic sex maniacs, and we would have been better off if the experienced Mr. Nixon had been elected, and if the even more experienced J. Edgar Hoover had been able to protect us from the crazy ideas of those outside agitators.
In the debates that decided the 1960 election, they might remember the visceral reaction viewers had against the sinister, shifty appearance of Richard Nixon, instead responding to the detailed and intense discussions of whether the U.S. should respond with nuclear weapons if the Red Chinese made a move to take over Quemoy and Matsu. (I am NOT making any of this up!)
Within the first six months of my family moving to Ohio (over ten years ago), I decided that the state motto ought to be, "You can't….And WE don't have to." It has been a LONG ten years. I cannot imagine any place where the concept 'Yes We Can' will be so hard to sell as the state of Ohio; I can imagine few places where people have a more desparated need to be inspired by Barack Obama.
Don't ask, don't tell. Nafta. Norman Hsu. Welfare reform. Hillary's plan to reform medical insurance. The republican takeover of congress in 1994. The contract on America. What 'is' is. The failure of the U.S. to sign the Kyoto Treaty. Impeachment. The defeat of Al Gore's campaign for the presidency.
Who wouldn't want to go back to the 1990's, to a 3rd term, a restoration of the Clintons' presidency? Me, for one. I supported them then, and now I know we can do better. Only George W. Bush could make them look as good as they do now.
Who wouldn't want to look forward to something better?
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