Ohio Valley Politics

The Nixon picture should have given this away, but this was an April Fools joke.

It’s confession time here at OVP, I haven’t really been honest with everyone about the reasons for the rebranding to “Ohio Valley Politics” from “Left of Ohio”. Now it’s time to come clean.

Early last summer I began to realize the there were just too many high quality Ohio blogs being operated and that, quite frankly, I wasn’t able to compete. I decided it was time to create an exit strategy from Ohio politics before I developed a lousy reputation. Once this difficult decision was made, the location of my self-imposed exile was obvious, I would simply cross the river into West Virginia. It’s nearby and they don’t really have the high number of politically focused blogs that Ohio does, it was a perfect fit.

The next problem became the name. I couldn’t very well continue to call the site “Left of Ohio” if I was covering the state to the right of Ohio and “Right of Ohio” was thrown out almost immediately for reason’s I’m sure you can figure out. However after some though I realized that the name “Ohio Valley Politics” would allow me to continue blogging in Ohio while the details of my move were finalized and smooth the transition when the time came.

This move will be taking place in the coming months and should be concluded before many of us leave on Google’s Mars Expedition.