On the Road In Ohio

I am here in the mother of all swing states for the third day now and although the election is seven days old many of the remnants are still here.  The most symbolic thing I have seen is the capsulazation of the moral message into a billboard ad that simply said:  Pro-Life, Pro-Marriage Vote George W. Bush for President".  The Kerry stuff is much the same as was in Illinois.  I have not seen anything new.  I have seen some other Bush things, but we never really see any Bush stuff so all of it is new.

In the local paper an editorial summarized one angry Democrats feelings well.  In it she said: I guess everything in Ohio is just fine, no more job problems, no more health care problems, no more problems with the war.  I don't expect to hear a single word complaining since we decide to keep things the way they are and vote for Bush.

Where I am at, Stark County, has long been the bell-weather for Ohio and Ohio was a bell-weather for the nation.  People here are exceptionally happy that they carried for Kerry while neither Ohio or the nation did.  No more foreign reporters, no more life in Stark county pieces, no more negative advertising about how poor and destitute everyone here is.  It is time to get them out of here and get back to find someway to get back to work.

The feeling of everyone I have spoken with in Ohio is universally a collective "Thank God it is over".  Of course the Democrats are concerned with the future of our country and the Republicans are feeling like good has been done.  We are all waiting, across the nation, to see where we will go now.