A reader sent us a very interesting Dayton Daily News article link that shows that in Medina County between 2000 and 2006, the Democratic vote as measured by the vote for Gore in 2000 compared to the vote for Sherrod Brown increased by more than 25%. The link takes you to an interactive map which you can click on to get the vote totals from all three elections for every county in Ohio. What's interesting is that the Daily News used the U.S. Senate race as a comparison. If you used the 2006 Governor's race, the swing would be even more pronounced.
One thing that really helped both Brown and Strickland was that they campaigned everywhere in Ohio and didn't "write" off counties based on their previous voting history. Both men made more than one visit into Medina County. Strickland, for example, made three trips into Medina County between August of 2005 and November of 2006. Such efforts paid off on election day.
Another thing that helped was that in both 2004 and 2006 Medina County saw a tremendous grassroots effort led by David Brown, who co-ordinated the Kerry for President campaign in 2004 and then both the Brown and Strickland campaigns in 2006. Although Kerry didn't carry the county, the experience that volunteers gained was invaluable and really helped in the 2006 election.
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