Cross-posted with RyanvDewine.com

I think we over-emphasize solutions. Any political operative will tell you that if you mention a crisis in education, have a 10 point plan to fix it in that same speech. I don't agree. Every political analyst will tell you that people want answers and if you don't provide them, they won't vote for you. I disagree. If you pretend that issues are simple, if you pretend that there's an easy cause and effect, and every problem can be fixed with either a tax cut or a government program, not only will you hurt the country policy-wise, but you'll hurt the party politically.

In Dailykos there's a new diary on the Ohio Senate race where they mention a guy I haven't seen talked about much before, Tim Ryan. He's a very young guy, maybe 32 years old, who got elected to the House about 4 years ago, and made a pretty good speech a couple of months ago against the war. I saw the speech, liked him, and looked into him a bit - he's apparently, a very talented, liberal guy, but I didn't know he was thinking of running for the Senate.

I checked centerforpolitics.org, though, (http://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2006/senate/?state=OH) and they seem to think that he will definitely be the only Democrat in the race, that nobody else will jump in, and that he'd be a great candidate. What do you think?