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Ohio voters give Obama more time to fix economy
Voters still stinging from economic woes appeared willing to give President Barack Obama more time to fix things, according to an Ohio exit poll following Obama’s defeat of GOP challenger Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s election. Major national media outlets had called the state and the race for Obama, and Romney ...
Ohio exit polls: Brown leading Mandel, Obama/Romney too close to call
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, was leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the close of polls, according to exit polling results in Ohio from the National Election Pool Exit Poll conducted by Edison Research.The firm indicate the race is too close to call at this point.In the race for ...
GOP star Rubio comes to Centerville to campaign for Mandel
Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio urged supporters gathered in Centerville on Friday to elect Josh Mandel to the U.S. Senate to help break partisan gridlock that Rubio blamed on the Democrats.Rubio spoke before about 100 people outside GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign headquarters in Centerville. U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, ...
Senate candidates blanket state in last-ditch push
Now that the debates are over, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and Republican state Treasurer Josh Mandel are blanketing the state for a final pitch to voters in a race that appears to be tightening. A Dayton Daily News/Ohio Newspaper Organization Poll of likely voters shows Brown leads Mandel statewide by ...
Redrawn district makes for expensive state House race
State Republican and Democratic parties are both pumping money into a race for the Ohio House 43rd District, a once safe Democratic district that was redrawn by Republicans and is now more competitive. The race, pitting Democratic incumbent Rep. Roland Winburn of Harrison Twp. and Republican Clayton Mayor Joyce Deitering, ...
Democrats, GOP disagree over candidates’ support for women
DAYTON — Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused Gov. Mitt Romney of being dishonest on women’s reproductive health care issues during Tuesday’s debate with President Barack Obama. “I think the president made it clear he is protecting a woman’s right to make her own reproductive choices and that ...
Montgomery County voters may have received wrong polling place info
A mistake by a vendor resulted in 16,000 Montgomery County voters receiving postcards from the county board of elections with potentially inaccurate information about where they should vote.The error was worsened by a second mailing to 6,000 of those voters that may have gone to an address where they do ...
Group contests voter rolls
A Tea Party-linked group attempted to get officials in 14 Ohio counties, including Montgomery and Butler, to remove at least 1,800 people from the voter registration rolls in the last few months, but found their efforts mostly thwarted by errors in their work, lack of documentation, and federal laws that ...
Accusations flying in local state House race
Accusations are flying in the race for the newly redrawn 43rd Ohio House district in what is quickly becoming one of the areas most contentious statehouse battles.On Monday Clayton Mayor Joyce Deitering, a Republican seeking to unseat Rep. Roland Winburn, D-Harrison Twp., held a news conference denouncing two mailings paid ...
Ohio must allow in-person voting 3 days before Election Day, court rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday reinstated in-person early voting in Ohio on the three days before the Nov. 6 General Election, handing the Obama campaign, Democrats and voting rights advocates what they see as a major victory. Local county elections boards will decide what office hours to add.The ...
Voters turn up to cast ballots early
Ohio voters on Tuesday cast the state’s first ballots in this year’s hotly contested presidential election, as early voting began in all 88 counties. A statewide tally for for today’s in-person absentee voting was not available, however six area counties - Montgomery, Greene, Warren, Clark, Champaign and Butler - reported ...
Romney, Ryan attack Obama over economy
With his two campaign jets parked behind him and his running mate standing by, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told about 3,000 people here Tuesday that President Barack Obama is soft on China and has no economic plan except to raise taxes on small business. “We cannot afford four more ...
Campaigns heat up with Romney, Ryan visits
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney brings his Ohio bus tour to Vandalia today, as the campaigns continue to match visit with visit in a state that could decide the presidency. GOP Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan flew into Dayton International Airport Monday morning to start the bus tour and the ...
Romney, Obama trying to win over women voters
If President Barack Obama is re-elected in November, a big reason will be his support among women, according to recent Ohio and national polls. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is trailing Obama with women, while staying roughly even the president among men. Ironically, both men and women list the economy ...
Biden addresses Libya situation during WSU visit
During a visit to the Dayton area, Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday paid somber tribute to four Americans killed in an assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya and vowed that America “would bring to justice their killers.” “There is no place in the civilized world for the senseless ...
Clinton offers defense of Obama
Former President Bill Clinton last night formally nominated President Barack Obama for a second term, saying that “he inherited a deeply damaged economy, he put a floor under the crash,’’ and launched “the long hard road to recovery.’’ Clinton, who presided over an economic expansion from 1993 through 2000 and ...
Brown says Mandel running campaign of lies
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown called his Republican opponent Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel a well-funded liar on Wednesday, and said outside interests hiding behind non-disclosure rules are the only reason the race is competitive. “I think mostly you can tell a lot about an elected official and a candidate’s integrity by ...
Dems first major party to support gay unions
In approving a “marriage equality” platform, the Democratic Party on Tuesday became the first major political party to support same-sex marriage, drawing a mjor contrast with the Republican Party’s definition of a marriage as a union of one man and one woman. “We stand for something,” said Dennis Lieberman, a ...
Democrats take aim at "voter suppression" efforts
Ohio Democrats in Charlotte took aim Monday at what they called “voter suppression” efforts by Republicans, including Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. “The secretary of suppression, Jon Husted, he and his cronies have got a plan and that is to steal this election. And by golly we’re not going ...
Democrats hope to 'recapture magic' from 2008
The nominee is the same, but this week’s Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C., will have a different tone than four years ago in Denver, when Barack Obama was running to become the nation’s first black president and the economy was in a tailspin that would become known as The Great ...
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