Does Ohio need a constitutional amendment on voter ID?

For Democrats in Ohio, last week's elation of winning an election is starting to fade into the realization that we now have to govern and make choices that people won't like.

It was what Ohio Democrats longed for and what Ohio Republicans dreaded. The blue wave crashed ashore and swept Amy Acton over Vivek Ramaswamy in the bitter race for governor.

Just one more weekend of muting political ads during football games and Jeopardy. Just a few more days for candidates to travel the state in their fancy buses to try to get their voters to cast ballots.

It has been an extraordinarily ugly week in an already extraordinarily ugly campaign for governor.

According to the RealClear Polling average, Sherrod Brown has a 3-point lead, and Amy Acton has a 4-point lead over Vivek Ramaswamy. The races are still toss-ups in a state that has been very solidly red for 10 years.

Two new polls show Amy Acton has a lead in the race for governor. A Suffolk University poll conducted for USA Today shows her with a 9-point lead over Vivek Ramaswamy, 50% to 41%.

Gasoline prices have fallen a bit over the past week. Here in Columbus, they have gone down from $4.50 a gallon to about $4.30 a gallon, so a 20-cent drop. Come next week, they will drop at least another 38.5 cents because Ohio lawmakers this week passed a suspension of the state's gasoline tax.

This week, the leading crypto political action committee, Fairshake, said it plans to spend at least $30 million to support Sen. Jon Husted and oppose Brown.

We have a new poll to give us an idea of where Ohio voters' minds are as we approach the start of early voting. It is hard to believe, but Ohioans start casting ballots in about two and a half weeks.

Ohioans will vote on whether to put in the constitution a requirement that Ohio voters show a photo ID before they can cast a ballot. It is Issue 3 on the ballot.