The papers picked it up and the radio picked it up and the television news picked it up and everyone reported that the Independent Ohioan Isaiah Flote died while fishing for squirrels and the news was big news because the parties in the senate had the same number of senators but when Flote walked off the stage of the church without shaking anyone’s hand and decided to become an Independent and leave the Republican Party at the end of 1999 the Democrats became the majority in the Senate by one person.So Isaiah Flote’s death was covered by national newspapers and national news shows and national news websites and the articles and the shows and the websites told about the machineries gathering their resources and power to Ohio and about the Republican money and professional pollsters in suits and campaign specialists and advance men that got sent to the Republican party headquarters on one side of the state and the Democratic money and professional pollsters in suits and campaign specialists and advance men that got sent to the Democratic party headquarters on the other side of the state and the articles and shows and websites showed a map that was drawn using voting records from the 2000 presidential election and the map looked like a heart because Ohio looks like a heart and one side of the map was all red and the other side was blue and everyone took sides and took a breath together and discussed who would win.