The good news about union-busting Issue 2 is Ohioans dislike it by large margins.
A little more than a month ago, the majority against Issue 2 was sizeable: 51percent against Issue 2, as opposed to 38 percent for it: a 13 point margin.
But, after a month where Governor Kasich and others have been speaking on Issue 2’s behalf all over the state, and its proponents have been waging a high-priced promotional campaign as utterly dishonest as anything Ohio has seen in a long time, after all that: Ohioans dislike the union-busting measure even more than ever.
According to the latest Quinnipiac poll (http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1322.xml?ReleaseID=1665), Ohioans now would reject the law by a majority of 57 percent to 32 percent, a 25 point margin.
Ohio voters know a bad law when they see it, and the longer they look at Issue 2 the worse it looks.
The bad news is that Issue 2 (a plan to devastate the rights of firefighters, police, teachers and other public employees) could still become law.
It can still become law because opinion polls don’t really matter.
The only thing that matters, for this issue, is how many votes are cast by the time the polls close on Tuesday, Nov. 8.
If the opponents of the law stay at home and its proponents go out to vote, the referendum could pass in spite of the fact that most Ohioans are against it.
The spread of the Occupy Wall Street protests, across the nation and the world (including Bowling Green: http://www.sent-trib.com/front-page/occupy-bg-digs-in-downtown), is a testament to how people are feeling shut out from power everywhere in what we used to call (without irony) the free world.
Nowadays, in the halls of power, money talks and freedom walks.
Both major political parties seem equally under the sway of Wall Street and billionaire anti-community advocates like the Koch brothers.
But no matter how much money they have, they can’t buy elections.
Not unless we let them.
We, the 99 percent, need to get to the polls next Tuesday, and every election to come.
Let’s give the 1 percent the bad news: this is our state, our country and our world.
And they are not for sale.
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