Jennifer Brunner, a former...

...Ohio secretary of state, nicely summed up this week what she believed was happening in the Buckeye State (and elsewhere):

“A dozen cookies are put down in front of a C.E.O., a union member and a Tea Partier,” she said. “The C.E.O. takes 11. Then he says to the Tea Partier, ‘That union guy wants yours.’ ”