Under Ohio law it is currently a first-degree misdemeanor to abandon or fail to provide adequate support to an aged or infirm parent who lacks the means to support themselves. A conviction carries up to 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

While this law is rarely enforced in the Ohio I think the current situation with Amy Acton and her seemingly indigent bio mother highlights why it should be repealed entirely. Then protections need to be added in to prevent enforcement of similar laws (both civil and criminal) from being enforced on Ohio citizens from other states. Notably because of PA since they are the most active in enforcing their filial responsibility laws both intra and inter state; PA also seems to be where Amy Acton's bio mother is living these days. Republicans in PA partnering with their brethren in Ohio could decide to use the law as a weapon against Amy Acton even if she does not win the current election. But also, those laws should be done away with their entirety.

Can we please have a honest conversation. Why not vote for Don Kissik?

I personally don't like Vivek nor Amy. But I don't hear enough about Don, is there a reason for that?

Or tell me why you are voting for the one of the other two, please

Edit: for all of those saying "this is a two party system", isn't that more of a reason to vote for him? To get out of that thought that we should either be strictly one way or another.

But also great points were made and Amy will be getting my vote!

Sherrod Brown used to beat his polls. He ran a little ahead of them in 2006 and 2012 (by 1.2 on average), then behind them in 2018 (by 4.6, still won) and 2024 (by 2.6, lost to Moreno). Ohio as a whole made the same turn. Before 2014 its polls were close, if anything a little too Republican. Since 2014, all ten Senate, governor and presidential races, midterms included, have come in redder than their polls.

This year Brown leads Husted by 3.1 in the final-month polls. In Ohio's close races since 2014, the miss has averaged 4.6, bigger than his lead. But the misses have been shrinking: the three most recent close races, the 2022 and 2024 Senate races and the 2024 presidential race, had the three smallest misses of the ten.

My forecast shades every Senate race about a point toward Republicans, because Senate polls lately have overstated Democrats. Then it blends the polls, three parts to one, with an estimate that leaves out this race's polls (how far right of the country Ohio voted for president in 2024, the national generic ballot, and Husted holding the seat), which alone says Husted +3. The result, as of Oct 26, is Brown +0.8, 56% to 44%: 2.3 points right of the polls, about where a miss like the last two Senate races would land.

The real question is whether Ohio's polls keep overstating Democrats this cycle, or whether pollsters have finally fixed their past misses. If they've fixed them, Brown wins by about 3. If the misses stay as small as lately, it's a true coin flip. If Ohio goes back to its 2016–2020 misses, Husted wins by roughly 1.5 to 4 points. And if the polls miss the other way, as they did for Brown in 2006, Brown wins by about 5.

When the votes are in, compare Brown's margin with Brown +3.1, this year's final-month nonpartisan average as of Oct 26 (later polls could move it a little): the gap is roughly this year's miss. Every poll and every step of the forecast is on the race page on my site (linked above), and the chart of Brown's four races, plus a way to make your own call, is in the first comment.

Anybody else see this in mid-ohio, around 9:30pm on 10/26/2026?

X marks the spot?

Can we write in Tim Misny? Do you all think he’d be a good senator?

Sipping on an iced caramel latte with whipped cream and talking about “squadding up” with his daughters on Fortnite, Brian Poindexter doesn’t necessarily fit the stereotype of a “manly man,” which is how another magazine characterized the congressional candidate in mid-July. 

For what it’s worth, it’s his political opponent, Republican Rep. Max Miller, who recently testified about taking testosterone and frequenting half-a-dozen different gyms. Whatever muscles Poindexter has, he confirms, are the result of 19 years spent placing rebar and erecting the steel skeletons of buildings, and before that, working as a cross-country mover for people with too much Ethan Allen furniture.

Ohio's largest newspaper has broken its own ban on major-race endorsements to back Democrat Amy Acton for governor, after condemning Republican Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign advert featuring Acton's estranged mother as 'vile' and 'weaponizing' her alleged childhood sexual abuse.

VivekRamaswamy's latest ad puts Amy Acton’s estranged and abusive mother on TV to attack her.

Gov. DeWine we ask you to stand with Ohio’s vulnerable children and withdraw your endorsement of Ramaswamy.

https://app.sosha.ai/s/ZDt2rZPz

The Cincinnati Business Committee has recently come out against the Cincinnati Public School Levy. The more I learned about the CBC involvement in public education, the more questions I have about who is influencing decisions about our public schools.

Kristina (Kristi) Phillips-Schwartz works for the Cincinnati Business Committee and sits on the board of IDEA Charter Schools.

She previously worked for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an organization that advocates for charter schools and school choice in Ohio.

In March 2008, she became Director of Education Initiatives for the Cincinnati Business Committee (CBC), working directly with some of Cincinnati’s most influential business executives on education policy.

What’s particularly interesting is that Cincinnati Public Schools board records from 2012 identify her as participating in discussions about school closures and mergers, including presenting research on how those decisions should be made.

In 2017, she was selected to lead the Catholic Inner-city Schools Education Fund (CISE), an organization focused on expanding access to Catholic education for disadvantaged children.

Kristi Phillips as a director at the Cincinnati Business Committee.

Why does this matter?

The Cincinnati Business Committee is now publicly opposing the November 3 CPS operating levy, despite the district facing a significant budget shortfall and the possibility of further cuts and school consolidations.
I think it’s important to understand the history of the people and organizations influencing education policy in Cincinnati.

Question for the thread. Does this happen in Ohio’s other major cities?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristina-phillips-213591310

https://fordhaminstitute.org/about/fordham-staff/kristina-phillips-schwartz

https://ideapublicschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/01.29.2026-IDEA-GC-Board-Meeting-Minutes-DRAFT-signed-1.pdf

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_131/legislation/hb2/00_IN/pdf/

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/cincinnati-schools-have-tough-choices-big-opportunities