Sweet 16

is an outlier poll. More polls have shown a double digit lead than not......

I mean, I'm glad that so far not a single poll has shown Blackwell in the lead. And although I know there's a lot of talk about how popular Blackwell will be in the black community, I have to wonder. I was at the 11 District (Stephanie Tubbs Jones) caucus meeting last night in Cleveland Heights. Crowd probably 80-90% black, with a wide age range, lots of elderly people but lots of younger people too, and a contingent of black ministers seated in the front row. Mentions of Blackwell were greeted with murmurs of disapproval and Greg Groves from the congresswoman's office, who was conducting the meeting, reminded the crowd of a quote from another local activist (I wish I could remember who so I could credit him): "He may be your color, but he's not your kind." There was talk about him trying to take away rights that people in the room could remember not having or their parents not having.

It means we don't let up. Never underestimate the right wing's ability to smear, slime and lie.

1% Fitrakis (G) Doesn't look like Strickland is losing progressives and African-Americans after all. With a margin of error of 4.4%, that means Fitrakis actually has -3.4% of support and has half the support of the Liberterian candidate. Which raises a bigger question: are Liberterians disenfranchised from supporting the Republicans over Ken Blackwell's candidacy? His flip-flop on TEL perhaps?