The Ohio referendum on S.B. 5 is next

And that is far more important. Winning the Wisconsin Senate would have been nice, but it would not have resulted in repeal of the Walker bill.

The SB 5 referendum is the most important election this November. The three governors races this year are all sleepers. Bobby Jindal is in good shape in Louisiana, so is Steve Beshear in Kentucky and Mississippi will surely elect yet another frat boy good ole boy white Republican governor this fall. So SB 5 is where all of the action is.

http://www.toledoblade.com/State/2011/08/11/Wis-vote-no-guide-on-Senate-Bill-5.html

Both sides in Ohio's fight over the collective bargaining rights of more than 350,000 government workers say voters shouldn't read too much into the results of what was essentially the same fight Tuesday on a different battlefield.

The Democratic effort to recall six Wisconsin Republican state senators in retaliation for their votes stripping public employees there of most of their union rights yielded mixed results. Democrats unseated two GOP incumbents, short of the three they needed to seize control of the Wisconsin Senate and create a fire wall to block Gov. Scott Walker's policies.

In Ohio, where legislative recall is not an option, voters will directly give Senate Bill 5 a thumbs up or down as Issue 2 on the Nov. 8 ballot.

Ohio is looking ahead at a likely expensive and bitter campaign over whether to repeal Senate Bill 5, a law enacted solely by Republicans and signed by GOP Gov. John Kasich. A Quinnipiac Poll released in late July suggested most Ohio voters have already taken sides with just 12 percent undecided. The poll said 56 percent of voters want to repeal the law compared to 32 percent who want to keep it.