Good news from Oh-01

I seriously wish some of my fellow Democrats would get their long, sad jaws up off the floor and, instead of totally buying into every piece of "bad news for Democrats" narrative the media is pushing for this fall's elections, show a little fight.

OK, I tend to be on the optimistic side. I've been saying all along we're not going to lose a raft of congressional seats in Ohio. It's hard for me to believe that voters would replace Mary Jo Kilroy with banking lobbyist Steve Stivers at a time when people are purported to be up in arms about the activities of banks. And it's equally hard for me to buy into the idea that Betty Sutton is toast running against hypocritical self-funding car dealer Tom Ganley, who padded him bankroll from the Sutton-penned Cash for Clunkers bill while railing against government bailouts.

For a long time, I've been thinking that we'll probably lose one seat, and it'd probably be Steve Dreihaus, who is running against the former congressman he beat, Steve Chabot, in Oh-01 in the Cincinnati area.

Well, maybe not.

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2010/08/26/poll-driehaus-chabot-eve...

A poll just released by an outfit called the American Action Forum, which appears to be as right-wing as its cheesy name suggest, finds Chabot leading Dreihaus by only two point — in a poll with a 4.9% margin of error. That is seriously good news for us and seriously not good news for Chabot and the GOP. It's to be hoped that the Democratic powers that be in Washington D.C. take note and send some help Dreihaus' way. He came through for us on the health-care bill, and we should come through for him.