Animal rights groups, in particular the Humane Society of United States, have a second-to-none record of winning ballot initiatives. In Ohio, such groups are considering an initiative to ban dog auctions.

What's the problem with dog auctions? As the Columbus Dispatch explains, animal rights groups claim dog breeders keep dogs in terrible conditions and force dogs to have too many puppies. Your blogger is not a dog guy (I still have nightmares from my early childhood, when I lived in Hong Kong and was periodically chased by wild dogs that had been abandoned to the streets), but he predicts: dogs make good copy and TV, so this is one ballot initiative that would have no troubles attracting media attention.