ON OHIO

A reader suggests an alternative explanation for the Bush campaign’s anti-abortion ads in Cleveland:

The suggestion that the Bush campaign is running abortion ads in the Cleveland market only because they are having problems with its base — to be baseless. Here is why:
Cleveland is Democrat territory. Period. The Republican Party has no base in Cleveland. However, the Democrat voters in that area are Catholics and pro-life. Until his failed run for the presidency, even Dennis Kucinich who was the mayor of the city and represents the city in Congress, was against abortion. I see this effort by the campaign as a way of cutting into the Democrat base. Nothing more. Nothing less. If the campaign can peel away a few percentage points from the Kerry column in Cleveland, it will certainly help them win the state.

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