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...wins in New York, Ohio and Massachusetts helped lead the way. Attorney General Elliott Spitzer prevailed in New York, former Clinton aide DeVal Patrick won in Massachusetts and Ted Strickland cruised to victory in Ohio. The Democrats also took away Republican governorships in Arkansas, Maryland and Colorado...
...about the inmate vote, since prisoners haven't yet done their time and are temporarily estranged from their political communities. But there is at least one good argument for granting the vote to the almost 4 million felons who are out of prison, and her name is Leola Strickland, of Hinds County, Mississippi...
...Strickland postdated three checks of between $90 and $500, and then for unrelated reasons lost her job as an administrative assistant. By the time she got a new job several years later, the checks had bounced. Bad judgment? You bet. So she was hauled into court this year and, in exchange for pleading guilty to a felony and making good on the checks, allowed to stay out of prison. Now Strickland is working and paying her bills and taxes, and she wants to vote. "I always voted," she says. "My vote may be the one that counts...
...Such sentiments may be gathering support across the country. In Ohio, Republican candidate for governor J. Kenneth Blackwell drew boos in a gubernatorial debate in Akron when he said that publicly funded charter schools were good for the overall educational system. By contrast, his Democratic opponent, Ted Strickland, drew thunderous applause when he stated: "About $500 million, I believe, was taken out of our public system to fund underperforming charter schools last year. I think that's a waste of resources - for-profit charter schools trouble me greatly...
...more moderate opponent. And he's one of the few African-American Republicans running statewide in the country. Democrats are often unfairly described as a party that doesn't appeal to religious voters, as African Americans attend church in high numbers and tend to vote Democratic, but Ted Strickland is an unusual candidate as well: the congressman has a master's degree in divinity, has worked as an administrator at a Methodist children's home and talks openly about his faith in campaign...