Seriously?

Reading Democrat blogs in Ohio is like reading The Onion or watching Comedy Central.  It's good for a laugh, but nothing should be taken seriously.

So for a laugh today, head on over to the BSBlog (the BS usually doesn't stand for Buckeye State) and check out their wild-eyed spin on yesterday's election results.

Clearly, whoever writes their blog needs a lesson in Ohio politics.  Canton, Columbus, Lorain, Athens, and Chillicothe are DEMOCRAT cities.  In fact, they're overwhelmingly Democrat - sometimes by two or three to one margins.  Naturally, winning races in these cities is an uphill challenge for ANY Republican, so it's comical to see Democrats try to spin their victories here as some kind of bellwether on the 2008 presidential race.

The fact that Democrats didn't already hold some of these urban seats is a glaring indictment on the pathetic weakness of the Ohio Democratic Party and its candidates over the last decade-plus.  So here's the real headline from those races: 

Democrats win elections in Democrat cities

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how that works (unless you're the Ohio Democratic Party for most of the last decade).  As they say, even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.

Republicans did lose a couple of mayor's races they should have won yesterday, but both involved independent candidates getting into the race and splitting the vote against the Democrat. 

So contrary to the crazy left-wing blogger spin, the Republican Party actually gained some key victories on Tuesday, winning several Democrat mayoral seats, making inroads on city councils in staunchly Democrat cities and even picking off Ted Strickland's first judicial appointee.  Oh, and Republicans still control more than 63 percent of all countywide offices in Ohio, both chambers of the Ohio General Assembly, the entire bench of the state's highest court, and the majority of Ohio's congressional delegation.   Hardly dead.

If winning the mayor's race in a city that's two-to-one Democrat helps the Ohio Democratic Party feel like it's ten feet tall and bullet-proof, live it up.