Ohio's 15th Still Hot

With election day just around the corner, things are hopping in Ohio's 15th district. Democratic candidate Mary Jo Kilroy is enjoying very positive and enthusiastic support from voters. Her opponent, Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist, is worried about losing support because of two other independent conservative candidates for the congressional seat. In these tough economic times, voters are a little wary of someone like Stivers who has a long history of being a bank lobbyist and his support for predatory lenders. Seriously, if banks are having difficulty, why would a voter support a former bank lobbyist to send to Congress?

Time Magazine had this to say about the election in Ohio's 15th district:

...A key reason for Kilroy's strong showing is a little thing called the global financial crisis. Stivers spent seven years advocating looser bank regulation as a lobbyist for the former Bank One, a longtime corporate powerhouse in Columbus that is now part of banking giant JPMorgan Chase. As recently as last year, that would have been an asset in white-collar Columbus.

But almost as soon as Stivers announced his campaign last November, Kilroy started blasting him for his connections to predatory lenders and the mortgage meltdown. "Kilroy has been coming at him like a ton of bricks for months over this bank lobbyist thing," said James Nash, who covers the race for the Columbus Dispatch.....

***** BIG NEWS!

The Ohio State University is still the largest campus in the U.S.

Dayton Business Journal:

....University data puts enrollment at Ohio State’s main campus in Columbus at 53,715 students this year, up 2 percent from 52,568 a year ago. That surpassed Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, which has 52,734 students, and the University of Florida’s Gainesville campus, which has 51,413 students.

OSU’s Columbus campus has been ranked the nation’s largest for three consecutive years. Arizona State took the top spot in 2005.

The university also said enrollment at all six of its campuses set a record at 61,568 students – nearly 1,000 more than enrollment in fall 1991, which was the school’s high-water mark for nearly two decades....

Wow!

(The Republicans are worried that a majority of those 53,715 students will vote Democratic.)