Yesterday's post on the Democrat defeat in Ohio was written before much of the punditocracy in the lamestream media had their say on the matter. Apparently, many of them seem to have not noticed the Ohio GOP win at all.
Michael Barone wrote one of the most comprehensive wrap-ups of the 2005 election for U.S. News and World Report and not even at the end of his piece under "Other Results" did he mention this victory. John Podhoretz, writing in the New York Post, gave the story two sentences. From the contributors at Real Clear Politics, not a word.
Governors races in states like New Jersey and Virginia proved to be anything but bellewethers for the future as Democrat candidates replaced Democrat incumbents. And the New York Mayor's race was hardly a referendum on President Bush and the Republican Party.
But in Ohio, where Democrats played their "culture of corruption" card loud and long, they failed miserably and were defeated by a similar wave of voter strength that put Bush over the top in 2004. The 2005 Ohio referendums (two through five) were meant as payback for 2004. If there was any 2005 election that was a referendum on Bush, it was Ohio.
The result speaks for itself and the silence of the lamestream media does as well.
Update: Larry Sabato, political science professor at the University of Virginia and one of the best election analysts, responded to my email asking what happened to the Ohio story in the media interviews he did following the election. Like a few others, he had mentioned the story, but it did not fit the story angle that newscasters were looking for and was not followed up.
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