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This weekend, I was reading some displays in the Cincinnati History Museum at Union Terminal. Having a degree in Literature, History was never one of my biggest focal points—so words like “Federalism” have never meant much to me. But one display panel caught my attention—and I wondered if not much has changed in Cincinnati’s political landscape since the early 19th century. The panel claimed that while, in the early 1800s, much of Ohio was a Republican stronghold, Cincinnati remained a base for the Federalists, who believed in rule by the monied elite. Sounds pretty much like the race for City Council in 2007, where businessmen and lawyers have raised over a quarter of a million dollars to hold on to their part-time job offering the glory of political power.
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