I don't have to do a door-to-door survey to know how people feel in Ohio's 15th district. I've heard many people make comments about gas and food prices in my travels in the area. You know when you see more people searching for change in their pockets or in the bottom of their purses, that people are hurting. The Bush White House doesn't call it a "recession" because that would mean they are failures.
The only people/groups who have done well under the Bush administration are oil companies and Halliburton. Since Bush and Cheney have had long standing relationships with oil and Halliburton, we should not be surprised.
Currently, Ohio's 15th district has two notable candidates running for office: Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy and Republican Steve Stivers. Kilroy is widely known and very popular, especially because of her years of service as a Franklin County Commissioner. Stivers, a former bank lobbyist, is a right winger through and through. He has sided with banks and payday lenders time and time again. Stivers has even gained support from extreme right winger, Grover Norquist (Politicker).
Voters in the 15th have a clear choice---- real change with Kilroy or the same old Republican economics with Stivers.