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"Bill Seitz, a Republican state senator from Ohio, recently told the Wall Street Journal that his state’s renewable energy and energy efficiency standards are reminiscent of “Joseph Stalin’s five-year plan."

— Okay, but in fairness they are both technically plans.

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Republican Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel calls the financial crash a made-up Washington conspiracy to scare Congress into passing stimulus. →

Under “lolwut,” see this. Oh, Ohio.

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Real Ohioans explain why they’re voting for Romney, and against Obama.

Wow. Wow. Wow. This is eight minutes of your life well-spent. Watch twice for extra GRR.

Update: Credit to Chase Whiteside of New Left Media, who is your interviewer/video maker.

"In 2004, Ohio was ground zero for the Swift Boat smear campaign. In 2008 Ohio was ground zero for all things related to Joe the Plumber. In 2012 it’s already been ground zero for Mitt Romney’s fraudulent welfare ad and is now ground zero for a flatly dishonest ad about Jeep assembly being moved to China. At some point, you’d think that Ohio voters would get tired of Republicans treating them like chumps. Maybe this is the year."

— One can always dream…

"We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance… We don’t have a setting across this country where if you don’t have insurance, we just say to you, ‘Tough luck, you’re going to die when you have your heart attack.’ No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it’s paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital."

— Multi-millionaire Mitt Romney being multi-millionaire Mitt Romney.

"I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine,” said Doug Preisse, chairman of the county Republican Party and elections board member who voted against weekend hours, in an email to The Dispatch. “Let’s be fair and reasonable."

— When it comes to voter suppression, Ohio Republicans aren’t even pretending anymore.

Fracking may have caused an earthquake in Ohio. →

Hey, to make an omelet, you’ve got to shoot highly pressurized water and sand into the Earth’s fragile and unpredictable crust with very little government oversight.

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Meanwhile, in Ohio, voters knocked down the state’s extreme anti-union law, which curtailed collective bargaining rights. All in all, a pretty big night for progressives.

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Today is D-Day for Gov. John Kasich’s anti-union law. Ohioans went to the polls on Tuesday in one of nation’s the most anticipated off-year elections to decide Issue 2, a referendum on whether to repeal Kasich’s law that curtails collective bargaining rights for public sector workers. It’s shaping up to be a big win for labor, reports MoJo’s Andy Kroll—but don’t call the state for Obama in 2012 yet.

On Tuesday, Ohio voters will give a thumbs up/thumbs down on Gov. John Kasich's controversial anti-union law. So how's it playing in John Boehner's district? →

You might be surprised.

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“How many of you have summer jobs?” Erin asks her afternoon batch of about 30 eighth-graders. Lots of them put their hands up. When she asks them how many have jobs because they’re working for family farms or businesses, most of those with their hands up keep them raised. Job growth in this…

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We searched for “Ohio” on Flickr and this is the first thing that came up, so we’re going to roll with it; try not to eat your screen!

Why were searching for photos of Ohio? We’ll let ace human rights reporter Mac McClelland explain:

I’m in Gahanna, Ohio, which, the welcome sign at the edge of this Columbus suburb notes, was one of the Top 100 Places to Live according to Money magazine in 2007. Ohio’s new Republican governor, John Kasich (currently a contender for the most unpopular governor in the country) is gearing up to make some big changes around here. This month state legislators will come to an agreement on Kaisch’s great big budget cuts, mostly to local governments. He is also proposing to dismantle unions’ bargaining abilities, the cause of much protesting. He also wants to divert profits from state alcohol sales to a “jobs creating” semi-venture-capital fund he heads.

For the next four weeks, I’ll be covering these developments, while spending some quality time with people who work for the state, college students, university administrators who are about to see their budgets slashed, and local politicians (if they’ll talk to me).

Follow Mac’s updates here.

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"Primary threats from a DUI lawyer in Franklin, Tennessee, should be the least of his worries."

— Some sage wisdom from Stephanie Mencimer, on a hapless tea partier’s plan to mount a primary challenge to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).