By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 5th at 07:39 PM  | 

An ad featuring President Obama released last week appears to have been produced with taxpayer funds, allowing President Obama to reach out to television viewers without adhering to strict federal disclosure rules for political ads. Following up on observations made by TownHall.com contributor Ron Meyer, Media Trackers has uncovered more questions than answers about the president’s recent public service announcement (PSA). No Federal Election Commission | Read More »

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 5th at 07:00 AM  | 

Liberal consulting company FieldWorks flagged as potentially fraudulent roughly 200 voter registrations it submitted in Hamilton County, Ohio this fall, FOX News reported on November 3. FOX also reported that charges against three FieldWorks canvassers have been referred to the prosecutor in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and in August a FieldWorks employee gathering Voters First Ohio signatures was indicted on 23 felony charges. Based in D.C., FieldWorks | Read More »

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 04:00 PM  | 

During a speech at an Obama for America campaign event in Hilliard on Friday morning, former Oho governor Ted Strickland accused Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of trying to “fake compassion” for victims of Hurricane Sandy, Fox Nation reported.

A clip of Strickland’s speech recorded by CNN follows.

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 03:00 PM  | 

ProgressOhio Executive Director Brian Rothenberg was quoted in an October 29 AlterNet story accusing True The Vote (TTV) of conducting illegal poll worker training, continuing a liberal assault on the election integrity group.  AlterNet writer Steven Rosenfeld began his story with an assertion that TTV “may be pushing their anti-democratic agenda into illegal territory in Ohio by interfering with that state’s official poll worker training regimen.”

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  November 1st at 01:00 PM  | 

The Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rules imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are taking a toll on Ohio’s coal industry and are expected to increase citizens’ electricity costs. Utility MACT, a series of bureaucratic regulations created under the Clean Air Act with the support of President Obama and U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), has already caused coal-fired plant closures and layoffs.

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  October 29th at 11:30 AM  | 

Ohio’s unemployment rate paints a misleading picture of the state’s economy, an Opportunity Ohio report and separate Media Trackers analysis reveal. The unemployment rate reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) dropped from 10.6 percent in July 2009 to 7.2 percent in August 2012, but the change resulted from a shrinking labor force as opposed to strong job growth.

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  October 24th at 06:36 PM  | 

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 07:13 PM  | 

The National Education Association (NEA) and an army of other left-wing groups are working desperately to spin billboards meant to deter voter fraud into a get-out-the-vote drive in Ohio and Wisconsin. NEA and its state affiliates have joined a “voter suppression” rallying cry over billboards which simply read “VOTER FRAUD IS A FELONY!” and listed the maximum penalty for committing voter fraud.

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  October 17th at 02:00 PM  | 

The Ohio Education Association (OEA) has promoted Barack Obama’s campaign with cover features in every issue of its “Ohio Schools” magazine since the start of the school year, and did the same in 2008. OEA claims to represent the interests of all Ohio teachers, but many educators who disagree with OEA’s politics are required by state law to pay hundreds of dollars in dues even if they opt out of the union.

By: Jason Hart (Diary)  |  October 15th at 09:45 AM  | 

Left-leaning PolitiFact Ohio pronounced a factual claim from U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel, a Republican, “Mostly False” on October 10. When compared to past rulings, this is yet another piece of evidence the Cleveland Plan Dealer’s “fact checking” outlet is riddled with liberal bias and lacks any scientific processes. In an October 10 Plain Dealer story, Washington correspondent Sabrina Eaton introduced Mandel’s claim that ”Sherrod Brown missed | Read More »