From the Petro party

Jane Prendergast is blogging from Jim Petro's party in Columbus...

All's quiet this early at the party place for Petro's gubernatorial campaign, the Columbus Athletic Club.

Aides are hanging up green and white banners and lining up nametags for the guests coming later - they hope - to celebrate the attorney general's bid for higher office.

You can definitely tell something's going to be going on in downtown Columbus tonight - in the two blocks between here and the party spot for Petro's opponent, Ken Blackwell, there are a dozen TV satellite trucks lined up along Broad and Third streets.

It must have been a long campaign for Petro's aides. Their drink of choice, so far, tonight: Red Bull.