"Ohio Is Becoming More Republican"

That strange quote comes from the mouth of "Mornin'" Joe Scarborough on Thursday's "Race for the White House" program (yes, I'm a little behind on the TiVo).

This statement was said in the great context of Obama's so called up hill battle for the Presidency in November.

The news isn't Joe's ignorance, or deliberate misstatement, it is that no one on the panel challenged him on it.

Let's review the facts about Ohio in the last couple of years.

In 2004, George Bush won 50.82% of the vote in Ohio after taking 50.53% of the vote in 2000, so he had a miniscule up tick there. Against that, in 2004, Democrats picked up a net +3 in the Ohio House and held their seats in the Ohio Senate.

In 2006, Democrats picked up a net +8 in the Ohio House and picked up a net +1 in the Ohio Senate. We picked up one Congressional seat as well. That and we picked up a US Senate seat and four out of five statewide offices.

As things currently stand, we need to pick up a net +4 seats in the Ohio House to control that for the first time since the early 1990s.

One indicator of how things are was shown when the Republicans in the state house recently threw the payday lending industry under the bus, obviously to try to take that off the table as an issue in the upcoming election.

And with all of that going on in Ohio, no one on the panel challenged Scarborough on this obvious "misstatement"?

Of course on the same show, they played this soundbite from Senator Clinton without any challenge:

... and I was always supposed to lose Indiana

Huh?