politician has as deep a political organization an ability to touch the grassroots, governors matter most, more than congressmen and u.s. senators because they are always in the local news, ohio is one where republicans are incoming on t k door as they are in 32 races across the country. bill: when strickland was popular, and, how is he fighting back on the economy and is he using a strategy that other democratic governors, across the country, may be using, too. reporter: in both cases the answer is yes, against him what strickland argues is he left congress and ran unsuccessfully for the republican nomination wae went to work for wall street and in strickland s character zigs,