Ohio Gov. John Kasich, not so pleased to be sitting next to Mitt Romney.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, not so pleased to be sitting next to Mitt Romney.

The Obama campaign says privately that they have a nine-point lead in Ohio, while conservatives admit those numbers are accurate

It's surprising that Mitt Romney is trailing so badly given the quality of his surrogates in the state:



[Ohio Gov. John] Kasich, meanwhile, said almost nothing positive about Romney in our conversations, other than to say his life would be better with a president who would get the federal government out of his way. “He says he’s got a 53-point plan or whatever, I don’t know,” was Kasich’s rousing endorsement of the Romney agenda.

Never mind. Not so surprising after all.