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Carl Hughes is a banker in Marion, Ohio, the sort of guy who takes the pillar-of-the-community part of the program seriously. Last spring, he attended a meeting for people in town with health-insurance problems, called by Ohio's Democratic governor, Ted Strickland. "It was very emotional," Hughes remembered, "very upsetting." And so Hughes decided to pay for the insurance of the three families who seemed most desperate. "You want to see this problem fixed on the national level, but sometimes immediate action is needed," Hughes told me during a Sunday-morning visit to a pancake house...
...Marion is in relatively good shape-compared with Mansfield, a town the governor and I visited earlier that morning. Strickland is a former minister, and we began our day at the United Methodist Church, a lovely place with a guitar-playing preacher. Back in the 1960s, Mansfield had been home to famous American brand names like Westinghouse and Tappan. Now the town was shriveling slowly, the young people moving away. "I'm the only one I know who went to a four-year college and came back home to live," Ben Stauffer, a young high school teacher, told me later...
...Republican hands for much of the 1980s and 1990s; it lacks the broad vein of white, affluent liberals that have helped lift Obama to victories in Connecticut or Maryland; in Ohio, affluent whites tend to be Republican. In 2006, the state elected its first Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, in a generation. Most polls, at the present time, show Clinton 10 to 20 points ahead in Ohio, and Clinton was in Youngstown Tuesday night to try and widen that gap. "The best words in the world are not enough," she said, "if you don't match them with action...
...Virgin Megastores adapting to the downloading of movies and music? -Strickland Maney, Los AngelesMusic retailing is having an extremely hard time. Stores have had to reinvent themselves. For instance, we launched Virgin Mobile [a cellular provider heavy on hip downloads] and started selling other products like books and games that young people like. Virgin is perhaps one of the most adaptable companies in the world. If one of our industries gets hit, hopefully it is by another industry...
...consulting firm. They acted as matchmakers between candidates and receptive clergy and helped candidates navigate the Christian media markets and develop a message that crossed party and religious lines. Overall, Vanderslice and Sapp's candidates - including Michigan's Governor Jennifer Granholm, a pro-choice Catholic, and Ohio's Ted Strickland, a former Methodist minister - did at least 10 percentage points better than the Democrats' national average among white Evangelicals and churchgoing Catholics...