Also via kos, we've got a real Give Up success story, Ohio.

Tell me what these quotes sound like.

Ohio Democrats, who in recent years have shown all the organizational vigor of Chicago Republicans, have a strut instead of a limp in their step these days, less than a month before the election. And they know they wouldn't be in this position without the timely, bumbling generosity of the Republicans.

"The chickens are coming home to roost," said Rep. Ted Strickland, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate who actually lived in a chicken coop for some weeks as a child and is leading in his bid to become the state's first Democratic chief executive in 16 years.

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"They say they're the values party and they're the party that swept this [page scandal] under the rug," said Marianne Lannan, who runs a lampshade shop just north of downtown Columbus. "They knew about this for a while before they were forced to take action.

"I can't see that staying with the status quo would be any benefit to us," Lannan added.

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The state's two-term Republican governor, Bob Taft, pleaded no contest last year to ethics charges that he failed to report golf trips and other gifts from lobbyists, and the Bush campaign's northwest Ohio director, Tom Noe, was convicted of losing more than $50 million of state money in a rare coin investment scandal.

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Even among the Republican faithful, like Mike Cress, a jewelry salesman in Worthington, there is mounting concern about the war in Iraq.

"It really is frustrating. I'm a [Vietnam] veteran and I'm seeing the same mistakes made in my war," Cress said, complaining about an inadequate number of troops and sub-par equipment for them. "It's kind of like Barney Fife--we send them out there with one bullet in their pocket and say 'take care of it.' .. . We never learn."

It's sounding like the red staters are starting to really taste that shit sandwich they bit into in the last couple elections. It sure took them long enough.