The Dispatch has published the final numbers from the November election:
....Republican John Kasich defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in the Nov. 2 election, but only by 2 percentage points after all the votes were counted.....
Current Attorney General Richard Cordray, a Democrat, lost by a smaller margin.
....Cordray trailed DeWine by more than 67,800 votes in the unofficial count, but he picked up the lion's share of provisional votes in major counties and lost by a final official margin of 48,691....
Will John Kasich and Mike DeWine be able to deliver on their promises?
* * * The Hill has this about newly elected Republican, Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist, who will serve Ohio's 15th congressional district:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) revealed an early 2012 target Friday, hitting Rep.-elect Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who defeated Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D) last month.
In a release, the committee targeted the elevation of Stivers to the House Financial Services Committee, hitting his past as a bank lobbyist.
"Banking lobbyist Steve Stivers has made a career out of protecting Wall Street’s recklessness and greed, and now House Republicans want him to put this special-interest expertise to work for them,” said DCCC spokesman Ryan Rudominer. "House Republicans have made clear they want to give the keys to our economy back to Wall Street bankers and CEOs to keep their big bailouts and high-paid bonuses for years to come."
Every move and vote by Steve Stivers will be documented to see if he continues to favor banks and Wall Street the way he did when he was a state senator. Stivers, who has voiced opposition to the new health care law, also has decided to accept the government paid congressional health insurance. We call that kind of behavior hypocrisy.