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Friday, November 7, 2008

Topics: Economy, Politics, Other
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Newsmaker interview: Senator Sherrod Brown

Roundtable: Mark Naymik, politics writer, The Plain Dealer; Joan Mazzolini, reporter, The Plain Dealer; Harry Boomer, 19 Action News.

Election 2008 Wrap: Democrat Barack Obama scored a resounding victory on Election Day, winning by a margin more than seven million popular votes and roughly doubling the electoral vote total of opponent John McCain. Obama becomes the first black American to win the White House, but he’ll take office under the cloud of worry over a struggling economy and continuing discontent, including his own, over American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama’s victory puts Ohio on a new political tack. He won Ohio handily, carrying even the Republican big-city stronghold of Hamilton County (Cincinnati). A flotilla of Democratic House members bobbed in his wake. They’ll have a majority when they drop anchor in Columbus next year and a northeast Ohioan will hold the Speaker’s chair for the first time since 1939.

The election produced the fourth recent rejection for casino gambling, although backers of failed Issue 6 are planning to try again. And voters repudiated payday lenders by approving a measure that continues legal limits on the interest they can charge.

Cleveland voters approved a charter amendment that will reduce the size of City Council and Akron voters flushed a proposal to lease the sewer system and use the money for college scholarships.

(If time allows) Beginning of the End? The Christian Science Monitor has announced it will cease print publication and appear only on-line. The Monitor is not a typical newspaper: it publishes Monday through Friday and is delivered by mail. But the demise of its hard copy is seen as the harbinger of things to come for daily newspapers, which have lost readers and revenue to competing media.

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