America’s Watercooler in Lake County, OH
If, in the general election, Ohio has historically been the bellwether state, Lake County, is predicted to be the bellwether for the state in the 2008 race. The smallest of Ohio’s 88, Lake County is just to the northeast of Cleveland, along Lake Erie. If the patterns of voters there are predictive, what better place to take the watercooler?
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With all due respect to the place of Mr. Hockenberry’s birth, it would be insufferable if Ohio went first in the primaries. Bad enough that next year’s fall line-up will be flooded with the faces and neuroses of steel-milled Ohioans, it would really force the boundaries of propriety to force these relatives on us twice within a twelve-month span. Mr. Hockenberry is eager to test his canary in the coal mine theory–I will show you a dead bird.
Let Iowa and New Hampshire have their three seconds on stage. Neither of them will ever amount to anything more than Miss Congeniality and Miss Photogenic in the Miss President’s Buttercup pageant. Miss Ohio will always make it into the top-5 thanks in no small part to those bodacious political D-cups called Democratic and Republican voters. How ironic that Harvey Pekar should call most Ohio voters dumb–because Miss Ohio would then be your quintessential dumb blond, the one whose “assets” create no shameless amount of fawning and fondling from the candidates from both parties. It’s no wonder Mr. Hockenberry would have us all take notice.
Comment by Cal — December 18, 2007 @ 7:51 pm |
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