Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio 's coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes, we balanced our budget, we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world, including America, was being downgraded.
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
Ohioans, I think, in large numbers, have felt that the government has not been on their side in all of these issues: on pensions, on the cost of prescription drugs, on the health-care system generally, on jobs, on trade agreements.
Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.
This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.
But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
John Kasich is the most popular elected official in Ohio because he got things done.
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.