MEDINA, Ohio – Ed FitzGerald equates the path to the November
election with a retailer’s return counter. Voters, the Democrat says,
are lining up to make an exchange.
Republican
Gov. John Kasich, whom FitzGerald is working to unseat, doesn’t deal in
such analogies. Nonetheless, the final State of the State address of
his first term was the equivalent of hopping on the in-store intercom to
make a case for four more years.
Kasich’s speech was not overtly
political. He has yet to utter FitzGerald’s name in public, let alone
engage the Cuyahoga County executive directly, and he wasn’t about to
start here Monday. But as far above the fray as Kasich hopes to appear,
it’s impossible to evaluate his remarks outside the context of his
campaign for a second term. It’s almost as tough to consider them
outside the context of a possible run for president in 2016.
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