From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls

I read this passage from a New Yorker article about the presidential race in Ohio and had one of those stunned-and-sputtering Lewis Black/Jon Stewart moments of incredulity.

Anecdotally, and in polls, unusually large numbers of working-class voters seem to remain undecided or determined to sit the election out, as if they couldn’t bring themselves to vote Republican this year but couldn’t fathom taking a chance on Obama. Roger Catt, a retired farmer and warehouse worker, who lives in a small town near Eau Claire, Wisconsin, characterized the choice this way: “McCain is more of the same, and Obama is the end of life as we know it.