Jeffrey Quick's Blog

A stopped clock is right...

Clean tackles, no flags, from yesterday's debate:

"I'm a little surprised my opponent says he's a conservative, yet he would use the heavy hand of state government to tell local boards how to spend their money," Strickland said.

and

The most heated exchange in the debate occurred after Strickland expressed concern that some standardized tests were unfair to minority and poor children.

Citing the "soft bigotry of low expectations," Blackwell said he found it "actually disgusting" his opponent wanted to "throw away standards for African-American males."