OH-Sen: Cincinnati Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld likely running

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Strickland has been holding his ground against Portman; and OH is the clincher. Whoever, wins this race will be in driver seat for the election. To call it Lean GOP is very generous. It is going down to wire.

[RogueBeaver]

Strickland raises little over $1M, $1.2M COH. His goal was $2.5M.

[Maxwell]

I heard someone on this site say they thought Portman was going to win re-election by a landslide. He may have a point if Strickland continues to underperform so excessively.

[RogueBeaver]

Dems forgot the GOP 2012 lesson: leave dinosaurs in the museum where they belong. I wonder what Sittenfeld's total is.

[Talleyrand]

Yeah, there's no way Strickland is going to win this. He's the Tommy Thompson of this cycle and should have just stayed dignified in retirement. And yes, I'd take Sittenfeld over him.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I seriously doubt you can compare Strickland to Thompson who said Medicare is a bad program.

No one said it was was gonna be easy. But, no way this is gonna be a landslide race.

[windjammer]

Yeah, there's no way Strickland is going to win this. He's the Tommy Thompson of this cycle and should have just stayed dignified in retirement. And yes, I'd take Sittenfeld over him.

Thompson overperformed Romney by 2 points despite having faced a nasty primary with some tea party challengers. I forgot you could be optimistic sometimes .

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I seriously doubt you can compare Strickland to Thompson who said Medicare is a bad program.

No one said it was was gonna be easy. But, no way this is gonna be a landslide race.

You are totally missing the point.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

What point, there were multiple polls of this race, and not one has it a greater than 10 pt race.

Toomey on the other hand is winning in one by eleven or so

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Yeah, there's no way Strickland is going to win this. He's the Tommy Thompson of this cycle and should have just stayed dignified in retirement. And yes, I'd take Sittenfeld over him.

Thompson overperformed Romney by 2 points despite having faced a nasty primary with some tea party challengers. I forgot you could be optimistic sometimes .

Thompson received the exact same % of the vote as Romney. The only reason the senate race was closer is because third parties did better at the senate level.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The leads in these races are exaggerated in Pa, FL and OH. These races will be decided within 5-6 pts, but once DEMS win with NV and FL, they do need OH or Pa or NH to win senate.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

*snip*And yes, I'd take Sittenfeld over him. *snip*

This is like claiming that Alan Grayson is better candidate than Patrick Murphy.

[free my dawg]

Yeah, there's no way Strickland is going to win this. He's the Tommy Thompson of this cycle and should have just stayed dignified in retirement. And yes, I'd take Sittenfeld over him.

[Maxwell]

I seriously doubt you can compare Strickland to Thompson who said Medicare is a bad program.

No one said it was was gonna be easy. But, no way this is gonna be a landslide race.

You are totally missing the point.

Don't get in the way of his computing system.

*snip*And yes, I'd take Sittenfeld over him. *snip*

This is like claiming that Alan Grayson is better candidate than Patrick Murphy.

The difference being that Patrick Murphy is actually doing okay and meeting up with his goals.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I seriously doubt you can compare Strickland to Thompson who said Medicare is a bad program.

No one said it was was gonna be easy. But, no way this is gonna be a landslide race.

You are totally missing the point.

Don't get in the way of his computing system.

*snip*And yes, I'd take Sittenfeld over him. *snip*

This is like claiming that Alan Grayson is better candidate than Patrick Murphy.

The difference being that Patrick Murphy is actually doing okay and meeting up with his goals.

And yet nominating Sittenfield still makes about as much sense as nominating Grayson.

[RogueBeaver]

If Sittenfeld gets a deeper resume later, don't see why he couldn't be a decent candidate. But overall this fits into the dinosaur/rookie problem Dems have had in other states too.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Dems learned their lesson from the Ed Fitzgerald, days and want to go with a winner. Ohio isnt off the table like it is in midterms, and trust me, once the primary is over, Strickland and Clinton team will raise the cash needed to stay competetive with Portman and Jeb team.

[The Other Castro]

I know that's probably a typo, but "mudterms" is a great name.

[Adam Griffin]

It's early. The Clinton machine is functioning like a vacuum cleaner, sucking up all of the money for the previous quarter. This is why Hillaryland and DNC need to get over their little squabble and sign the paperwork so that DNC can start pulling in those $30k+ contributions that get distributed to candidates as necessary. The money will be there for Strickland one way or another as long as it's not a double-digit race (and/or until it's triage).

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The money will be there for Strickland one way or another as long as it's not a double-digit race.

That's exactly the point I'm making, Portman and Toomey need their races to stay at the double digit range. Once, the race is within 5-6 pts, both races are winnable, especially for Strickland, since OH is a tipping pt state like Va and Co.☺

[badgate]

The money will be there for Strickland one way or another as long as it's not a double-digit race.

How many other good Democratic candidates will lose out bc the DSCC has to funnel all its money to Ohio? HUNDREDS PROBABLY

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The money will be there for Strickland one way or another as long as it's not a double-digit race.

How many other good Democratic candidates will lose out bc the DSCC has to funnel all its money to Ohio? HUNDREDS PROBABLY

The DSCC will funnell some moneys to Ohio. But, Hilary Clinton will also be campaigning in Ohio.

Murphy and Duckworth and Feingold are gonna win in high single digits anyways.

[TJ in Oregon]

Certainly the Strickland campaign wishes they'd had more cash, but it's less of a big deal for him than most people because everyone in Ohio already knows who Ted Strickland is. What Portman ought to be doing is spending any time he can traveling around Southeast Ohio and try to get the narrative out there that Ted Strickland went off to Cambridge, Massachusetts and forgot where he came from and the values of the people he once represented. Strickland will probably underperform somewhat in the wealthier suburban parts of northern Ohio and of Cincinnati  against Portman. Strickland has to make up for that by carrying his home base in SE Ohio. The map would look like a 90s time warp, especially since it may be occuring with Bush vs Clinton. Throw in Kasich as well as an old face and all the players are the same, just rearranged a little.

...And then there's P.G. Sittenfeld.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Portman certainly lead the GOP takeover of the senate in 2014, that didnt sit too well with Dems like Strickland, thats why he got into race.

[RogueBeaver]

Long time no update, but Celeste has endorsed Sittenfeld.