Officially, Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender begins his campaign for reelection this week, after Dwight Eisenhower's flight to Cleveland to bestow wholehearted presidential blessings. Officially, Ohio's Democratic Governor Frank Lausche begins his campaign against Bender next week, when he will "go out through the back-country roads and the off-beaten tracks, making up my itinerary as I go along."
Actually, the notion that either George Bender or Frank Lausche is just now getting around to campaigning should have Ohioans in stitches. In the last two years
Bender has visited every one of Ohio's 23 congressional districts at least six times, taken off...