Ohio's Electorate Problem

" I Know I got Snookered (at the Polls)". "That Weren't Nice"....."Oh, well".......disenfranchised Ohio voter

I was raised in Ohio, in the suburbs on the East side of Cleveland. I went to college in Athens and Columbus and have traveled through the south west area and western areas of Ohio extensively.  I still have family in Cleveland, Akron and Canton, and Cincinnati.  I know this state and I know its people.  When reports come in that voters were disenfranchised, I know the neighborhoods, I lived there. When Mitt Romney has a photo opportunity with coal miners, I know the place and the people.  They were my classmates in school.  I visited their small towns and the mines, even though I was a city boy. When voters were disenfranchised in Ohio back in 2004, I visited Cleveland to spend some time with family. When I told my father about the voting problems downstate, he replied: "We didn't have any problem here" (in the affluent suburbs east of Cleveland).  Sigh. I didn't even try to explain it.  Honest "plain dealers" [Plain Dealer is the Cleveland newspaper] are not wired to believe that dirty tricks can disenfranchise people, especially since they did not have a problem where they live.  They choose to believe smooth sailing prevailed everywhere.  This is the complacency of the Ohio citizen:  "Don't confront with me any truths."

What was even more amazing was that there was absolutely no coverage of the downstate problems in the Cleveland media market.
NONE!