The Other McCain

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Hey, Girl, It’s Paul Ryan — in Ohio!

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio My previous plan to visit my sister-in-law today got scrambled by the news that the Future Vice President of the United States is returning this afternoon to his alma mater, Miami University of Ohio at Oxford, Ohio: 450 E. High Street, Oxford, OH 45056 Doors Open at 3:30 PM Event Begins at 5:30 […]

Bitterly Clinging … to Their Jobs!

Mitt Romney speaks in Beallsville, Ohio, Aug. 14, 2012 REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — Mitt Romney’s stop yesterday in Eastern Ohio’s “Coal Country” was an interesting event. Here was Romney — whom Democrats say is “out of touch” with working Americans — on stage with dozens of grimy-faced coal miners, and getting cheered by a crowd full […]

THE CHILLICOTHE ADDRESS: Romney’s Best Speech of the Campaign

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — Folks, Mitt Romney’s event tonight in Chillicothe was the best I’ve seen of this campaign. The crowd was huge — estimated between 5,000 and 6,000 — and the setting was awesome: In front of the beautiful courthouse downtown, with the sun just setting behind the courthouse and the sky glowing golden. The […]

Romney Aide: Biden ‘Chains’ Remark Shows ‘Desperate’ Obama Campaign

LANCASTER, Ohio A top strategist for the Mitt Romney campaign denounced as “outrageous” Vice President Joe Biden’s assertion that the Republicans would put black people “back in chains.” “It just goes to show you that when the Obama campaign gets in a scrape, they scrape the bottom,” Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom said Tuesday afternoon while […]

Ohio-Bound: Hitting the Road With Mitt

By the time you read this, I’ll be about halfway to Beallsville, Ohio, where Mitt Romney has the first of his three campaign stops today: 12:30 p.m. ET: American Energy Corporation 43521 Mayhugh Road Beallsville, Ohio 3:30 p.m. ET: Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl 532 Mcintire Avenue Zanesville, Ohio 7:00 p.m. ET: Ross County Court House […]

#RomneyRyan Ohio: Shout It Out Loud!

“These are the biggest crowds, some of the biggest enthusiasm that we’ve seen at Romney campaign events . . . This is as loud as I have heard a Romney campaign rally . . . This crowd is fired up. This campaign is fired up right now.” — Jim Acosta, CNN, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012 […]

Weird News: Portman’s Ghost in Ohio; Bad Michigan Poll; Killer’s Ex-Girlfriend

Just a lot of weird stuff in the news today, beginning with this: My friend Chris Moody stayed at the historic Ohio hotel owned by the family of potential GOP running mate Rob Portman — and was warned to beware of ghosts! (OK, but is it a Republican ghost?) Meanwhile, in yesterday’s Michigan Republican primary to […]

VP Tea Leaves: Is Mitt’s Short List Now Down to Pawlenty, Portman or Ryan?

There are signals — both in terms of actual evidence and what might be called “absence of evidence” — that Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential choices have now come down to three Midwesterners: former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. It appears that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has been eliminated […]

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