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Blackwell Reaches Deep Into His Bag Of Tricks And…Comes Up With Nothing

Ken Blackwell’s gubernatorial campaign today distributed harsh comments by radio talk show host Bill Cunningham related to Ted Strickland’s sexuality and about a former campaign aide arrested in 1994 for public indecency. ~The Enquirer Now I happen to think a little more highly of Mr. Blackwell than does Dave Weigel (“I’m embarrassed for the conservatives […]

Ken Blackwell’s gubernatorial campaign today distributed harsh comments by radio talk show host Bill Cunningham related to Ted Strickland’s sexuality and about a former campaign aide arrested in 1994 for public indecency. ~The Enquirer

Now I happen to think a little more highly of Mr. Blackwell than does Dave Weigel (“I’m embarrassed for the conservatives and libertarians who ever supported this warm bucket of scum”), since he had the virtue of being both conservative in the land of Voinovich and law-abiding in an age of extensive corruption, but besides being a cheap shot this attack on Strickland is just weak and desperate.  (Hey, at least it’s not as bad as Vernon Robinson’s campaign in NC-13!)  Memo to Blackwell campaign: you played the gay card last time; there is no more mileage in that one.  How bad is it that the Blackwell campaign has resorted to such lame tactics in the final stretch?  Pretty bad:

Democrat Ted Strickland has a nearly 2-1 lead over Republican Ken Blackwell with three weeks left in the race for governor, according to a poll released Wednesday.

The Quinnipiac University poll, conducted Oct. 10-15, found that 59 percent of likely Ohio voters favored Strickland, a congressman from Lisbon, while 32 percent backed Blackwell, Ohio’s secretary of state – a lead of 27 percentage points.

I hate to make the comparison, because the two men are not really all that similar, but the margin here does suggest a Keyes-like humiliation for Mr. Blackwell.  Ohio is shaping up to be not just a bad state for the GOP, but also something more like a political slaughterhouse.

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