Looks like the problem was more to do with the voter than the machine. It seems like he was able to figure it out though so I dont see why it is an issue.

 

Really?  How many times should a voter have to click on the candidate they want, and double check the machine, in order to cast their ballot?

 

It's Strickland's failed policies' fault.

 

Which policies, specifically?

 

Maybe his failed policy (well, soon-to-be-failed policy, after Kasich & Co. ruins it) of actually investing in higher ed in this state:

 

After a five-year decline, state support for instruction per student for the public, four-year universities increased from 2007 to 2010. Still, Ohio remains well below the national average in per-student legislative funding, at $4,901. The average annual out-of-pocket cost in Ohio is $5,433 for university students, $2,561 for regional campus students and $613 for community-college students.

 

In Strickland’s first two years as governor, universities froze tuition rates in exchange for strong state financial support. In the current two-year budget, state spending on higher education was less robust, so colleges could raise tuition up to 3.5 percent each year.

 

Before Governor Strickland, Ohio was cutting state support per student at Ohio’s colleges and universities.  During the 1990s, we saw annual tuition increases in the double digits.  This during good economic times in Ohio.

 

Then Governor Strickland turned it around.  He kept tuition frozen for the first half of his term while keeping tuition increases capped to a modest 3.5% annually for the final two as state funding per student increased.  This during very difficult economic and budgetary times in Ohio.  In-state enrollment at Ohio’s universities and colleges hit historic highs.

 

But even as Governor Strickland closed that gap, Ohio still is below the national average in state funding per student.

 

Because businesses clearly want to locate in a low-tax state filled with uneducated workers, and they can't get enough in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, etc.  Kasich's really divesifying the product.

First, funding does not equal results.  If you pay a bad teacher $60,000, all you get is a well-paid bad teacher (and a resentful public).

 

Ideally, increasing salaries would draw higher-quality candidates into the profession--but with the seniority-based pay and tenure rules in place, those higher-quality candidates would have to wait decades to really get a piece of that increased budget commensurate with their skills.  The institutional structure is almost perfectly built to waste any increase in funding.

 

Second, I think you might be surprised at the number of manufacturing businesses moving to or opening in the South as compared with the Rust Belt, regardless of their average or median educational outcomes.

It's Strickland's failed policies' fault.

Which policies, specifically?

When danger reared its ugly head

He bravely tucked his tail and fled

 

See you on another page of another thread tomorrow, Scrabble

 

First, funding does not equal results. If you pay a bad teacher $60,000, all you get is a well-paid bad teacher (and a resentful public).

 

Ideally, increasing salaries would draw higher-quality candidates into the profession--but with the seniority-based pay and tenure rules in place, those higher-quality candidates would have to wait decades to really get a piece of that increased budget commensurate with their skills. The institutional structure is almost perfectly built to waste any increase in funding.

 

Second, I think you might be surprised at the number of manufacturing businesses moving to or opening in the South as compared with the Rust Belt, regardless of their average or median educational outcomes.

It sounds like you're talking about regular schools, whereas LK was talking about universities.

First, funding does not equal results.  If you pay a bad teacher $60,000, all you get is a well-paid bad teacher (and a resentful public).

 

Ideally, increasing salaries would draw higher-quality candidates into the profession--but with the seniority-based pay and tenure rules in place, those higher-quality candidates would have to wait decades to really get a piece of that increased budget commensurate with their skills.

What I wrote was entirely about university education in Ohio.  Not quite sure if you are aware of that. 

 

If you want to talk about primary public schools, its clear that most people send their kids to public schools and those kids go on to be fine contributing members of the society/economy.  Also, private schools routinely spend more money per pupil, which makes sense, because why else would rational economic actors choose to engage in that added expense?  You don't view universal primary education as a priority; I do.  You view test scores as a useful tool; I do not.  We are going to be talking past each other on this issue.

 

The institutional structure is almost perfectly built to waste any increase in funding.

This is a bald and completely unsubstantiated claim that is simply not true when you compare how public schools operate institutionally with private schools, how different state school systems compare with one another, and how U.S. public school education compares with foreign public school education.

 

Second, I think you might be surprised at the number of manufacturing businesses moving to or opening in the South as compared with the Rust Belt, regardless of their average or median educational outcomes.

Maybe I would be, but I suspect the scale of such moves isn't like it once was.  Between 1965 and 1989 you likely had a much greater trend of moves (or more likely, new factories simply set up there rather than in the Rust Belt).  Then, after the end of the Cold War settled the question of centrally planned development v. capitalist development, a massive exodus to foreign lands began.  It's also sort of a silly point to make because of all the federal expenditure in the South and West via the New Deal, Federal Interstate Highway System, Great Society and intervention to protect Civil Rights (why would you want to locate a business in a place where juries routinely ignored law and rendered verdicts that an insular society felt was right?). 

 

We've also hashed this out before.

I don't know how the hell he managed to use the keyboard on his iPhone if his stubby fingers can't even manage to click on the right name.

 

Did you even watch the video?

 

It's Strickland's failed policies' fault.

 

Which policies, specifically?

 

Ask the voters.

 

Once again, the rural, suburban, exurban hinterlands hold back our cities' progress, which is also due to the apathy of those urban dwellers. Less and less do I see myself staying in Ohio and that was before this election.

 

Second that one.

+1

 

It's not the voters fault Strickland lost. It's Strickland's failed policies' fault.

 

I trust you voted for Matesz?

 

Voting is for idealists.

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It's Strickland's failed policies' fault.

 

Which policies, specifically?

 

Ask the voters

 

Translation: 'I have no f'in clue'

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It's Strickland's failed policies' fault.

 

Which policies, specifically?

 

Ask the voters

 

Translation: 'I have no f'in clue'

 

Cute