Hayes: Lucas County matters

Steve Hayes reported earlier that there has been a dramatic shift in voter registration in Lucas County, Ohio (hard core union blue collar town of Toledo encourages that), Republican to Democrat (about 370) but from DEMOCRAT to REPUBLICAN (about 3, 700). This appears to be a trend in Ohio. You wouldn't know any of this from listening to the MSM, of course, because their goal seems to be to discourage the tea party movement, a truly grassroots effort, from believing that they have changed anything. Read this article over at Weekly Standard, which is entitled "As Ohio Goes....souring on Obama."

Kevin DeWine, chairman of the Ohio Republican party, believes that Republicans have picked up  100,000 crossover voters statewide this year, with 1.8 million primary votes cast. Contrast that to 2008, when Democrats picked up 96,000 crossovers with 3.6 million votes cast. (Some of those crossovers can be explained by Rush Limbaugh’s encouraging Republicans to switch parties in 2008 to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary and so prolong her battle with Obama. They likely would’ve switched back this year. But as was the case in Lucas County, unaffiliated and issue-only voters are also trending strongly Republican.)