National Review: Ted Cruz for President

National Review has endorsed Ted Cruz in the Republican primaries.  Excerpt:

He forthrightly defends religious liberty, the right to life of unborn children, and the role of marriage in connecting children to their parents — causes that reduce too many other Republicans to mumbling.

2014 Conservative and Tea Party Voter Guides, Ohio and Cincinnati

(Looking for a different year’s voter guide?  Click here.)

(Looking for 2014 Conservative and Tea Party Voter Guides, U.S. House and Senate, All States?  Click here.)

(See also the case for voting for Republicans in the general election.)

Cincinnati area:

• List of “Judges Supported by Hamilton County Liberty Groups” (according to the Ohio Liberty Coalition)

• Endorsements from Cincinnati Right to Life PAC

• Thoughts on Hamilton County tax levies from Liberty Alliance Cincinnati (“dedicated to the principles of constitutionally limited government, free enterprise and fiscal responsibility”)

• Endorsements for Hamilton County from Citizens for Community Values (about CCV Action, about CCV)

• (Wondering what 2014 Cincinnati Issue 11 is about?)

Statewide:

• Endorsements from the Ohio Citizens PAC (“Supporting fiscally responsible, Constitutionally conservative candidates”)

2014 Conservative and Tea Party Voter Guides, U.S. House and Senate, All States

(Looking for a different year’s voter guide?  Click here.)

(Looking for 2014 Conservative and Tea Party Voter Guides, Ohio and Cincinnati?  Click here.)

(See also the case for voting for Republicans in the general election.)

About candidates or current races:

• Endorsements (map, press releases) from Tea Party Express (“Restore Liberty — Honor the Constitution”)

• Candidate endorsements and congressional scorecards from the Family Research Council (“Our vision is a culture in which human life is valued, families flourish, and religious liberty thrives.”)

Cincinnati Endorsement Compendium

Update (November 15th, 2009): The link below doesn’t seem to be working; so, on the off chance that anyone is still looking for the election results, you can find them here instead.

Update (November 3rd, 2009): A local news station offers running tallies of today’s election results.

If you happen to be a Cincinnati voter, and if you’re planning to vote in this fall’s off-year elections (coming up next month, Tuesday, November 3rd, polling places open from 6:30 a.m to 7:30 p.m.), at least if you’re like me, you’re wondering, How am I supposed to choose among all these candidates I don’t know anything about?  If you occasionally listen to the radio or watch TV or read anything even somewhat related to current events, it’s easy to have an opinion every four years or so about the presidency, etc.  Unfortunately, unless a candidate aggressively mails me multiple fliers about himself (which one of them is doing two of them are doing!), I find it more difficult to form an opinion on Mr. Smith J. Smithson of North Avondale, not only because I’ve never heard of him, but also because the areas of public policy he has “positions” on aren’t things like war and abortion but things like how the city should collect unpaid parking fines and whether the public schools should continue “CGCS benchmarking”, which I’ve also never heard of.