We must now all look to see how state and local governments alike attempt to solve the current problems and create more jobs.

Thank you...Thank you....Thank you...OHIO VOTERS that voted NO

Bye bye business and jobs, hello taxes :(

I am amazed that in a state that lost the american automotive industry jobs due largely to high union labor costs that they would be so short sited in this election. Lemings still do exist.

Thank you Ohio voters for standing up for the Middle Class. Get on the band wagon. Organize, and unionize your workplace!

GO HOME KOCH BROTHERS

It's official... more people voted against Issue 2 in 2011... than voted FOR John Kasich in 2010.

the gravey train roll on

The war on the nonunion working class by blood sucking labor union is clear.

Thanks Patch for the quick and concise election report.

I am a registered Democrat, a pack a lunch and go to work single person and if some one will give me what I have invested in my Stark County Ohio home and I am out of here.......

don't forget to thank the private sector workers today. We will be working hard at our jobs while you suck up your 8 weeks of vacation!

I have earned 3 weeks of vacation as a 17 year employee and certainly I am thankful to the working men and women who voted no, private sector and public sector alike.

Next up for communities like Field - layoffs. Other communities will not be far behind. Unions once again showed what they are best at and that IS NOT protecting their members but intimidating those who stand in the way of what they want (and in the case of public unions they have the arrogance to intimidate the very people they serve).

I truly hope thatt all of you union memebers and leaders that said you would negotiate in good faith and want to work to a fair solution actually do that. Understand that when everyday people that work in the private sector have not received a raise and in some cases have taken pay cuts over the last several years and you get raises not based on the value of the job you perform but based on time on the job. That you feel entilted to some large retirement system that is goverment funded, that you feel that you should not have to pay a fair share for medical coverage, that you are ENTITLED.... This great country was based on capitalism and governement needs to start to act the same way or there will be nobody left to pay the taxes to support your entitlement attitude.

if I had told you that more Ohioans in 2011, an off-year election, will vote against Issue 2 than the number of Ohioans who voted for Kasich in 2010, would you believe that? Except that’s true. No on Issue 2 got roughly a quarter of a million more votes than John Kasich did in 2010. How can Kasich argue he has any mandate on collective bargaining reform when No on Issue 2 received more votes than he’s ever gotten? That’s the new problem for those few legislative Republicans who still want to revisit collective bargaining reform. I don’t think we’ve ever seen an issue so definitively tied to a Governor defeated with more votes than that Governor had gotten in their most recent election, either. That may be a feat never repeated again. And yet, there are still “pundits” who say Kasich can recover by 2014… although they will probably now say that such things are less probable than they used to suggest.

IMO people were voting against the Governor as much as they were voting against Issue 2. As far as regaining popularity-he never had any so that's a bust too. He's nothing but an ax man, chopping anything and everything so of course people are against him. In the hands of someone more sensitive to people this might have passed. All he managed was to energize unions. Me, I'm thankful for unions. I was never in one but the companies I worked for were so afraid their workers would form them they paid well and handed out a ton of perks. All we need now is a backlash where companies stop doing that and the unions will be back in force.

First the right wing conservatives (also evangelical christians) were against gays, then unions next will be women and last will be all religions except christian. They want everyone to dress, look, act, and pray to the same person. They have so much hate especially seen in the Issue 2 Senate Bill 5 race. To take away from the people who work to protect us, save us, and teach our children. This group are really sick

Are you kidding me? There might be some Religious groups who feel that way but no main stream conservatives wants that. Conservatism is all about personal responsibility, smaller government, and freedom. I could say all Dems are socialist, marxist, and bigots, I can show this with examples to prove my point but most Conservatives are not flame throwers and lump all Dems the same. The Gov. probably went a little to far on the bill but it vital that the pensions and health care be reformed. The teachers pension is in trouble, look here: http://buckeyeinstitute.org/the-liberty-wall/#post-

There is a reason why most pensions plans have been eliminated and turned into personal retirement plans. Company/gov'ts steal or borrow from them or don't fund them properly.

Can you answer why every candiate running for the Republicans have to tell everyone that they are ultra convervative and before they even say that, they want everyone to know that they are christian and they prayed and received a message from god that they should run for president. Romey is the only one not bringing up religion and he will never be supported by your party due to his religion.

Are you kidding me? There are only 3 or 4 real conservatives, none of them like what you are trying to describe. There is 7 billion people on Earth and almost 88% believe in some type of god because Republicans believe it is their calling. What is wrong with believing in God or believing it is their calling? Romney does not speak about Religion because he is a Mormon and people don't understand it. Is there something wrong with God?

Yes there is something wrong with God, because of the way the evangelical preachers tell us to hate everyon who is not christian. Then you have the right wing of the republican party buying into this bs

Please name me one mainstream preacher who tells his flock to hate non Christians, it is Gods goal that we preach the Word to non believers. Or are you talking about Rev. Wright?

Preaching does not have to be telling or forcing anything on you. For most it is just living their life and treating others as they would like to be treated. I would say 99% of Christians do not "cram it down your throat". I am not telling you about my God or preaching to you, I am just stating how mainstream Christianity act. We believe in freedom of religion, so if you do not believe or believe that your pencil is your all might, it is all up to you. Why do you hate Christians?

"Why do you hate Christians?" That is YOUR assumption. I never said that, did I?

Have you ever listen to the Evangelical TV preachers and what comes out of their mouths. Also the same Evangelicals go all over the world preaching and trying to convert. Also this is what was taught years ago by the nuns. Only Catholics can go to Heaven. Listen to your Republican canidates for President, example Sarah, Mechelle.
Enough said.

No confusion here I know the difference and the Evangelicals and their preachers are the scarest ones. The professor does not hold a candle to these idiots

Well I guess you are not up on current affairs, Sarah Palin is not running for the Republican nomination. People from your side of the isle can not stand her and have to hate on her at any chance. I have not heard her name since August until you brought her up. So who is this professor you speak of? Are you talking about Rev. Wright? Do we need to pull out the youtube videos? There is a reason Oprah left his church right before 2008 election, she knew he was inflammatory and could be looked at as a bigot.

There are many different Christian sects very few are as you describe. You and Peter might be Christianphobes.

It is real easy to see why so many kids have no respect for their teachers or adults in general now a days.

To all the teachers out there. Most people do appreciate the job you do !!!!