Sunday, March 4, 2012

Ohio GOP civil war taints 2012 race

COLUMBUS — A fractured party. Tales of sharp-elbowed politics spilling into the news. A prolonged public spectacle pitting prominent Republicans against each other.

Ohio, it seems, isn’t just Super Tuesday’s biggest prize. It’s also the scene of an unseemly intra-party brawl that has drawn in high-ranking elected officials, lobbyists and operatives throughout the state.

The timing is especially inopportune: The struggle for control of the state party, which has consumed top Republicans in Ohio for more than a year, has experts and operatives fretting about the possible reverberations in Tuesday’s competitive presidential primary — and in November.

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