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Battleground Ohio: Candidates Battle For Voters
McCain, Obama Schedule Stops In Northeast Ohio On Monday
POSTED: 9:21 pm EDT October 26,
2008
UPDATED: 7:08 am EDT October 27,
2008
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- With just a little more than a week left in the presidential race, both the Republicans and the Democrats have their eye on the voters in Ohio.Both Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have scheduled campaign stops in Northeast Ohio on Monday. McCain will visit Cleveland and Obama will make a stop in Canton.The latest Ohio Newspaper Poll, released this weekend, shows the race in a dead heat in the Buckeye State. The poll shows 49 percent of voters supporting Obama, and 46 percent of voters supporting McCain.The poll also indicates that as many as one out of every 10 voters could still change their minds between now and Election Day.Which is good reason to believe that Monday will probably not be the last stop in Ohio for either candidate.Campaign Stats In Ohio:
- 20: number of trips Republican John McCain has made to Ohio since becoming his party's presumptive nominee.
- 10: number of trips Democrat Barack Obama has made since becoming his party's nominee.
- 7: number of trips Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has made to Ohio.
- 4: number of trips Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has made.
- $2,218,000: Obama campaign spending on TV ads in Ohio through Oct. 4.
- $1,727,000: McCain campaign spending on TV ads in Ohio through Oct. 4.
- 8.3 million: number of voters registered for Nov. 4.
- 2.3 million: number of voters registered as Democrats.
- 1.5 million: number of Republicans.
- 4.5 million: number of unaffiliated voters.
- 666,000: number of new voters who have registered in Ohio since the beginning of the year.
- 4,000 to 5,000: number of people in Ohio's four largest counties who took advantage of a one-week window that allowed them to register to vote and cast a ballot the same day.
- 302: number of registration cards and address change forms a southwest Ohio county sheriff sought for people who voted in that window. The sheriff, citing concerns of voter fraud, withdrew the request.
- 8: percentage points that Hillary Rodham Clinton beat Obama by in the state's March primary.
- 8: number of big cities in Ohio, all of which have Democratic mayors.
- 2: number of chambers of Ohio Legislature -- House and Senate -- held by Republicans.
- 5: number of statewide offices in Ohio held by Republicans when President Bush ran in 2000 and 2004.
- 1: number of statewide offices in Ohio held by Republicans this year.
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