I have no idea how many times we voters in Ohio have heard this nonsense over the last 18 months. All I do know is next time, I’m moving to another state that’s not so highly contested. And I won’t be back till after the election.
I really hate these kind of things, almost enough for me to want the state to go blue and then Romney wins, just so they’ll shut the fuck up about it next time around.
XKCD’s view on this:
I thought it was no Republican had won the election without winning Ohio. Weren’t there Dems who lost Ohio but won the presidency?
I’m glued to my own TV set in Sydney, Oz at the moment. The CNN guy said the last time someone won the presidency without winning Ohio was in 1960.
Well there ya go. That was Kennedy, a Democrat.
Against Nixon, I think.
… Nixon was a Quaker?
I could not have called that.
And I don’t remember Nixon being a Quaker ever being an issue. But Kennedy’s Catholicism was.
Well, maybe if the Quakers had a Pope . . .
Well, they do, but that guy on the Oatmeal box is just so bland and inoffensive.
It’s usually only a significant issue the first time. Hoover was the first Quaker President so he broke the trail for Nixon.
I don’t think Hoover’s Quakerism was seen as a big deal when he was elected. His opponent’s Catholicism was a much bigger deal.
Nobody gave a Hoover damn about it.
The upside to the so goes Ohio thing is that I have a ton of campaign literature now rotting in the compost heap.
You can move out of Ohio for the next presidential election if you like. But wherever you move to, assuming it’s still one of the US states, they’ll be talking about Ohio too.
I’m hoping we can at least avoid hearing about the Redskins Rule in the future.
Mitt, it’s after 9 a.m. and you haven’t called me yet. You’ve called me every day for weeks. When you called me yesterday, you said you needed me. You said I was so important to you. You said if we just stayed together, we could rule the world.
Now – now you’ve just forgotten, haven’t you? Forgotten what we meant to one another. Barack, too. He’s stopped calling me. And Sherrod, and Josh. You fucking men, you’re all alike, aren’t you? You just want one thing. Ohio. Well, we gave and gave until we had no more to give. All our electoral votes lie exposed before you like patients at a Planned Parenthood clinic we don’t have to close now.
But I know you’ll be back again. There’s always 2016. You’ll be back.
I don’t know what I’ll do now. Watching football next Sunday won’t be the same without seeing Maggie Brooks and Louise Slaughter accuse each other of corruption. I guess I’ll just have to fill the empty hours with beer commercials.
And that’s why we lost 'Nam. Cuzza that damned peacenik in the White House.
I’d like to start a thread in GQ asking ‘What is so important about Ohio’? but I suspect it’s been done before and I just can’t find it. So…I’ll ask here.
What IS so important about Ohio? It’s not it’s electoral votes; many states have more. Is it just a record thing that someone noticed? And no other state has ever stayed so true to the ‘rule’? Is it sort of the ‘center of the US’ or what?
It’s obvious that Ohio tends to call it, but the question is WHY? Or perhaps “HOW?”