No one knows Stark County better than Michael E. Hanke, general manager of The Repository in Canton. That's why this is important: Hanke says in his Monday column that ``John Kerry wins Stark County with 52 percent to 53 percent of the vote because Stark Countians, like much of the country, aren’t happy with the economy. And, if Kerry wins Stark County, Kerry wins the country because Stark County’s bellwether status is about how the nation votes, and only coincidentally how Ohio votes.'' Exactly. When a person wants to know about Ohio, listen to Ohioans, especially those as grounded here as Hanke.
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