Bye Bye, Blackwell

Remember former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, he of the 80-pound cardstock?

Well, he summarily got the crap kicked out of him in his bid for Governor by Democrat Ted Strickland. Blackwell trailed so bad, CNN just called it for Strickland with zero-districts reporting. Trailed so bad, he was pulling this shit in the gubernatorial debate:



Nice knowing ya, shitbird!

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