Strickland starting to give Blackwell the Bryan Flannery treatment
From the March 29th edition of the Youngstown Vindicator:
"Bryan Flannery is not a significant person to me," Strickland said. "One thing Bryan Flannery would like to achieve is significance in this race, and one way to do so would be for me to consider him significant. I don't."
From today's Cleveland Plain Dealer:
"Ken Blackwell is going to say what he is going to say because he is my opponent and wants to diminish my service in the House of Representatives," Strickland said. "He simply doesn't know what he is talking about. I don't think he has any idea how I served the district, so I pretty much ignore what he says, because he is basically irrelevant in terms of the future of Ohio, as far as I am concerned."
Ouch.
I think this comment is pretty well spot-on. If Blackwell pulls down 40-43% of the vote, he is largely irrelevant.
And Betty Montgomery's opponent for Attorney General was being challenged on his lack of trial experience. Montgomery's ads created the false impression that the AG's office was no different from the county prosecutor's office. And used that framing and played off her self-created misconception of the office to create the impression that the Democrat was unqualified.
The Democrat was Lee Fisher, and he was the Attorney General.