RSLC Political Director, Ben Cannatti, co-authors another piece in the series “RSLC State Race Spotlight” on Townhall.com:

Ohio, the GOP’s most pivotal swing state in 2004, is proving once again to be fertile ground for Republicans in 2010. Despite the attention the current administration is lavishing on Ohio – President Obama has visited the state nearly a dozen times since taking office – Buckeye State Democrats are losing ground, and time is running out.

Just last week, the Columbus Dispatch reported that “Republican candidates have grabbed double-digit leads in the races for governor (John Kasich) and the U.S. Senate (Rob Portman), and the swelling red tide could lead to a GOP sweep of statewide offices,” according to a poll conducted by the paper. The Dispatch also noted that supporters of Republican statewide candidates are nearly three times as enthused as their Democratic counterparts. This situation led the Dispatch’s Darrel Rowland to surmise that “[i]f Ohioans’ sentiments favoring Republicans extend to legislative and congressional races, that could mean the GOP will retake control of the Ohio House.”

Unwinding the Democrats’ current 53-46 majority in the Ohio House chamber has been a long-standing goal of the Ohio Republican Party and earlier this summer, the Republican State Leadership Committee included the Ohio House in its inaugural REDMAP Report as one of four legislative chambers it predicted as definite GOP pickups in November. With all 99 seats up for election and the significant enthusiasm gap reported in the recent polls confirming the GOP’s early confidence, the party looks to be in an excellent position to net the four seats needed to reclaim the majority.

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