Parties fight over the impact of Ohio election results

Nov 11 2011

Democrats point to the support given for allowing public sector workers to negotiate while Republicans highlight the disapproval from voters of a keystone of the fedearl health law.

Los Angeles Times: After Election Day, Spin War Centers On Ohio Initiatives
One day after Ohio voters resoundingly rejected the state's new collective bargaining law, Democrats and their allies in organized labor said Republicans have reason to worry about more fallout to come from that party's overreach. The GOP meanwhile is pointing to results of another initiative on the Ohio ballot, offered by Republicans as a rebuke to President Obama's healthcare reform, as just as powerful a rejection of Democrats (Memoli, 11/9).

The New York Times: Ohio Vote On Labor Is Parsed For Omens
But Tuesday's result contained a twist: The same voters who overwhelmingly rejected the labor bill -; by a margin of 61 to 39 percent -; voted in even greater numbers in favor of a symbolic measure against President Obama's health care law. Democrats dismissed it, but State Senator Bill Seitz, a Republican who opposed the repealed law, said it spoke to a deeper disgust among voters with the political class (Tavernise and Greenhouse, 11/9).