By Chris Cillizza | The Washington Post
Former Ohio governor Ted Strickland is ahead of Sen. Rob Portman (R) by nine points in a new Quinnipiac University poll out today, a result that has to make Democrats eyeing the possibility of retaking the Senate in 2016 very, very happy.
As a Washington insider for nearly three decades and as President George W. Bush’s U.S. Trade Representative and Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Rob Portman helped shepherd in the policies that caused the Great Recession, which decimated Ohio’s economy and left middle class families in the dust.
Ohio Democratic Party Statement on Six Week Ban
COLUMBUS- Today, the Ohio House of Representatives passed the Six Week Abortion ban 55 votes for, and 40 votes against. The bill will now go to the Senate for consideration.
The Ohio Democratic Party filed an Amicus Brief at the United States Supreme Court urging the court to reverse the Sixth Circuit ruling upholding Ohio’s ban on marriage equality. In addition, the ODP is working with the Michigan Democratic Party—uniting hundreds of officials from all four states of the Sixth Circuit (Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan and Ohio) to speak up in one voice for the rights of those who these “bans” have unconstitutionally targeted for a decade. Ohio’s Attorney General Mike DeWine continues to go to the highest court in the land to forcefully rebut his deeply flawed legal reasoning.
Governor John Kasich (R) delivers his fifth State of the State Address before a joint session of the Ohio General Assembly in Wilmington.
