There was a bug of some sort that messed with account settings. Recheck your settings if you haven't already.

But, yes you were victim of a security problem with Drupal 5.2 (which is really old-in-the-tooth). The version 5 branch is up to 5.9 as of today.

To cheat on your wife of umpty dump years, that has stood by your side through thick and thin, while she is at home dying of terminal breast cancer isn't a crime...

It probably should be...

but as of now... it is just slimy, and morally repugnant!

If Republicans are lucky maybe they can get an anti-gay marriage populist rally drummed up in Ohio, and paint the democrats as anti-family, or something equally stupid, so Ohio will be distracted from what is really going on and vote against their own best interests ...... again.

We've already got the nuclear-powered no gay marriage/no civil unions ever no way no how Constitutional amendment, so they can't play that card again.

The thing about Ohio is that we went from being a relatively low tax state to being a high tax state in a pretty short time period, so people are relatively anti-tax here. The kicker is that this tax increase was mostly done during what was essentially one party rule. In fact, the Ohio Democratic Party was very close to losing major political party status due to their ineptness at the ballot box.

I can recall ads about Gov. Strickland being a "liberal who will raise your taxes". Oddly enough, like all executives, Strickland cannot introduce or pass bills by fiat. He can only sign or veto bills given to him by the General Assembly, both houses of which are controlled by Republicans, the House being overwhelmingly so. I'll attribute that Republican dominance to the great gerrymandering job done in 2002 by the Ohio GOP. At that point we were still in one party mode, so they drew the districts as favorable to Republicans as they possibly could. Columbus is split into three separate house districts.

Your average Ohioan, in my experience votes based largely on stereotypes that are no longer valid. Democrats are pussy liberals who want to give all your tax money to lazy Blacks and Mexicans. Republicans stand up for fiscal responsibility and local control.

Don't discount the racism around here either, especially south of I-70. Detroit may have made white flight popular, but Cleveland made it an art form. Our large cities are incredibly segregated, usually on basis of a river. In Cleveland, the Blacks live on the east side of the Cuyahoga river. In Dayton, they live on the west side of the Miami river. In Columbus, they live on the east side of the Olentangy.

And you'd not expect it, but illegal immigration is a big issue, especially in the smaller industrial towns and western farmland where I'm from. It's not as much of a racism issue as it is a "the foreigners are stealing our jobs" issue. Ohio has had relatively high unemployment for the good part of 8 years now. And during the mid-90s we had a hard time with the job hit from NAFTA, which is still a big deal here. IIRC, my father, who works a factory job, made more before NAFTA was signed than he does now.

Most of the ballot initiatives this go around tend to be geared to turn out Democrats. One in particular mandates 7 days of sick pay for just about all workers.