The Other McCain

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OHIO OR BOSTON?

BLUE ASH, Ohio Ali Akbar stayed up all night crunching numbers for an election analysis that’s going to blow some peoples’ minds later today. A few hints: 7:57 a.m. ET. After crunching more early-vote numbers, @ali says: “We’ve got Ohio.” — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 4, 2012 Analysis shows 40% increase in GOP early […]

OHIO: MATH IS HARD

Nate Silver approaches a clue and almost gets it: For Romney to Win, State Polls Must Be Statistically Biased Missed it by that much, as Maxwell Smart might say. His headline summarizes exactly what Republican poll-mongers have been saying since September, as they see poll after poll with crazy oversamples of Democrats. As for example, […]

SCENES FROM OHIO ‘ALL-STAR’ RALLY

A Romney supporter in West Chester, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2012 (Photo by Ali Akbar) BLUE ASH, Ohio Friday night’s event at Union Centre in West Chester has been called a Republican “all-star” rally, the largest so far for the Romney campaign, as the Cincinnati Enquirer reports: The presidential race returned to Ohio for the final push Friday […]

WEST CHESTER, OHIO: MASSIVE CROWD FOR ROMNEY-RYAN RALLY

That tiny speck on the stage? Rudy Giuliani. BLUE ASH, Ohio I’ll have more photos later, but right now I just want to tell you how awesome tonight’s rally was. Rudy Giuliani’s speech was off the hook — the best takedown of the Obama administration I’ve heard this entire cycle, bar none. What Rudy said […]

FOUR MORE DAYS: Kid Rock Tonight in the Only County That Matters

The National Affairs Desk, Blue Ash, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2012 BLUE ASH, Ohio Six days since Ali Akbar and I arrived in Ohio, four days until Election Day, and we are right now at the epicenter of the political universe: Butler County may prove to be the key to the entire 2012 election, Ground Zero […]

Fred Thompson Makes News With Benghazi Comments at AFP Event

It was weird: @ali and I were the only media in the room. I was nodding off until — BOOM! Fred makes news. spectator.org/blog/2012/11/0… — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 1, 2012   Fred Thompson speaks in West Chester, Ohio BLUE ASH, Ohio News happens in weird ways. While we were driving to today’s Americans […]

BREAKING NEWS FROM OHIO: REPUBLICAN WOMEN ARE HOT

Ann Romney (center) with Jane Portman and Cindy McCain HAMILTON, Ohio At the Vinylmax window factory here, about 150 Republicans — mostly women — gathered for an event with Ann Romney, who was joined by Jane Portman (wife of Ohio Sen. Rob Portman) and Cindy McCain (about whose senator husband and celebrity daughter, we will politely say nothing). […]

FROM OHIO: POLLS, POLLS, POLLS

CINCINNATI, Ohio Pete Da Tech guy disassembles a Quinnipiac Poll that has samples of D+7 in Florida and D+8 in both Florida and Ohio, so that while Mitt Romney handily wins independent voters in both states, he nonetheless trails Obama by 1 point in Florida, 2 points in Virginia and 5 points in Ohio. These […]

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