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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
McCain, Bush embrace to trail McCain from Dayton to convention
Democrats have bought billboards in more than 20 bus stops around Minneapolis and St. Paul to link presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain and President George Bush next week.
The ads show the two men embracing, the words “More Politics as Usual” and “Does this look like change to you?” written above and below the image.
More notably, Democrats will also buy a mobile version of the billboard, which they’ll trot out in Dayton on Friday, presumably the day when McCain will introduce his vice-presidential nominee to the country at the Nutter Center.
The mobile billboard is expected to follow McCain and his veep pick all the way to the Republican National Convention, which starts Monday.
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TweetLexisNexis: Obama got more media play last week
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama received 47 percent more media coverage in the week leading up to this week’s Democratic National Convention than Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, according to a study by LexisNexis.
The coverage was likely spurred by increased coverage of the convention as well as Obama’s plans to announce a running mate, according to the analysis by LexisNexis’ Analytics 2008 election dashboard.
The study found that the tone of the media coverage garnered by both candidates continues to be fairly similar, according to the dashboard’s Media Coverage Sentiment Index.
An evaluation of the 5,214 stories about Obama during the period of August 18-24 in U.S. print, broadcast and online media outlets found that 33 percent of the coverage was positive, 38 percent neutral and 29 percent negative.
Of the 3,554 stories about McCain during that period, 36 percent of stories were positive, 32 percent neutral and 32 percent were negative.
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TweetObama gets nomination without Ohio votes
DENVER - Barack Obama won one election without Ohio’s votes.
On Wednesday, Aug. 27, the Democrats officially nominated Barack Obama for president by acclamation before the Ohio delegation got a chance to cast its 162 votes.
The nomination came when Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, Obama’s chief rival for the nomination, called for the nomination by acclamation and the convention roared its approval. Ohio’s delegation joined in the roaring as delegates shouted “aye” on the motion to nominate Obama.
Clinton spoke after first New Mexico and then Illinois yielded the floor to New York during the roll call vote. At that point Obama had 1,549.5 votes and Clinton had 341.5 votes. He needed 2,110 for the nomination.
Ohio was prepared to cast 130 votes for Obama and 22 for Clinton, said Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern.
Others in Ohio’s 162-member delegation either didn’t cast their votes in time or weren’t there, said Redfern. As for Ohio not getting to announce its votes, Redfern said.
“We’re disappointed, but it’s not about us.” He said he felt good and planned to have a “Budweiser.”
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TweetStrickland calls special election for Tubbs Jones’ seat
Gov. Ted Strickland has called a special election to fill the unexpired term of U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Cleveland, who died on Aug. 20.
The general election will be on Nov. 18 and a primary, if needed, on Oct. 14, Strickland’s office announced on Wednesday, Aug. 27.
The winner will serve until the end of this year.
Separately, the seat will be up for grabs for a two-year term in the general election on Nov. 4.
Strickland said that he would like to have avoided the special election but that the law requires it.
“While I recognize the costs that would be associated with a special election, my staff has carefully reviewed this situation and concluded that the U.S. Constitution requires me to call one,” Strickland said in a prepared statement.
“My staff has also reached out to Attorney General Nancy Rogers, and she concurs. Put simply, in ACLU v. Taft, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals made it clear that a governor has a ‘mandatory’ obligation to issue a Writ of Election when a congressional seat is vacated.
“The court has said that every district should have representation, even when Congress isn’t expected to be in session, because Congress may need to hold unexpected, but important, votes at any time. Such a clear ruling in Ohio’s federal appeals court makes it extremely unlikely, in my judgment, that Ohio would prevail in a legal challenge if we decided not to call for an election in this case.”
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TweetClinton releases convention delegates
DENVER - Democrat Hillary Clinton has released her delegates, giving them the official OK to support Barack Obama’s nomination for president.
Clinton’s action came on Wednesday, Aug. 27, hours before the roll call vote was to start. There is no guarantee all Clinton delegates will move to the Obama side but her move was seen as a part of the party’s continuing effort toward unity.
“I think we need to continue to bridge the gap between the two camps,” said Tom Ritchie of Dayton, a Clinton delegate who’s switched to Obama.
In the Ohio delegation, Clinton had 74 pledged delegates to 67 for Obama, a result of her victory in the March presidential primary.
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TweetMcCain supporters gathering tonight to prepare to for Friday event
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is coming to the Dayton area on Friday and the campaign is looking for volunteers to help make signs for the rally. The event will be at the Nutter Center in Fairborn on Friday.
If you want to volunteer tonight to help the campaign make signs, you can go to the following events tonight,
CENTERVILLE: 6 p.m. at Montgomery County Victory Center, 526 Miamisburg Centerville Road.
FAIRBORN: 7 p.m. at Erwin J. Nutter Center, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway.
LEBANON: 6 p.m. at 30 E. Main Street.
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TweetTheir ears must be burning
DENVER - Neither Jane Mitakides nor Sharen Neuhardt are here at the Democratic National Convention, but their campaigns for Congress got a boost today.
Mitakides, seeking to oust Republican Mike Turner in the 3rd Congressional District, decided to stay home with family; Neuhardt, vying with Republican Steve Austria to fill retiring Dave Hobson’s seat in the 7th Congressional District, said she couldn’t take time off from fund raising.
But both women were acknowledged at a morning meeting attended by several hundred delegates to the convention.
Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, said Mitakides is “running against someone we need to sweep clean” and that Neuhardt “needs our help.”
Citing the Republicans 11-7 edge among Ohioans in the House, Kantur said, “We can’t wait to welcome them to our delegation.”
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TweetLabor confronts racism in own ranks
DENVER - A national labor leader told Ohio delegates today that racism among union members presents a major obstacle to the presidential aspirations of Barack Obama.
“We’re going to have to fight with our own members,” said Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal workers and chair of the AFL-CIO’s political education committee.
The 13-million-member AFL-CIO has endorsed Obama over the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain.
“You know, there’s too many of our folks - and we’ve got polls and polls that show this - that are for McCain,” McEntee told delegates at their morning meeting.
“Too many of our people like John McCain. They like (his) Straight Talk Express even though its gone off the road and in the ditches. They like the fact that he was a hero. We’ve got to give him that. He was. But he’s not a hero for the American worker.”
But support of labor isn’t a given, McEntee said.
Obama “has to win throughout Appalachia to be president,” he said. “He’s got to go through Kentucky and West Virginia and Ohio and Pennsylvania and even parts of New York.”
And there, McEntee said, Obama will encounter objections from union members who will say “I can’t vote for him because he’s a Muslim” or “I’ve never voted for a Black.”
“That’s bullshit,” he said.
“It’s bullshit that you can’t vote for him because he’s black. We’ve got to get in our members’ faces and let them have it.
“We’ve got to wake up many of our own members. What we have to do, let me say, this, this is true of AFSCME, this is true of all of the unions, to get Obama elected, and Joe Biden, we’re even going to have to fight with our own members.”
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TweetObama watch
DAYTON — Supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s bid for the presidency will hold a “watch party” Thursday, August 28, during his speech at the Democratic National Convention.
The event kicks off with an 8 p.m. community block party in the parking lot of Thurgood Marshall High School and then moves into the gymnasium at 9 p.m. to watch Obama accept his party’s nomination.
The high school is located at 4447 Hoover Ave., Dayton, For information contact Nancy Kerr at 360-8521.
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TweetClinton delegates deciding how to vote on roll call
DENVER - Hillary Clinton’s delegates in Ohio’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention are deciding whether and when to formally throw their support to Barack Obama.
Clinton was to meet with her delegates in the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 27, before the scheduled roll call vote and it was considered likely that she would release them.
At a breakfast meeting of the Ohio delegation earlier on Wednesday, Clinton delegates went in different directions on a sign up sheet for the roll call vote.
Tom Ritchie of Dayton said he had switched to Obama. Lana Moresky of Shaker Heights was wearing a “Hillary Supports Obama So Do I” button but said she still backed Clinton. Jerome Sutton of Yellow Springs signed up to support Obama but made it conditional by adding “if released.”
Sutton said he felt “morally obligated” to cast his vote for Clinton until she released him from the pledge
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TweetMcCain campaign responds to Strickland
DENVER - Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has been leading the charge in bashing Republican John McCain here at the Democratic National Convention, always making sure to link McCain with President Bush.
The McCain campaign has been listening and after Strickland spoke to the convention on Tuesday, Aug. 26, McCain Ohio campaign spokesman Paul Lindsay released this response, harking back to Strickland observations before the governor became an Obama backer:
“Ted Strickland provided the wake-up call for Ohio families when he criticized Barack Obama and reminded voters of the ‘choice between a speech and a plan’
“No speech will change the fact that Ohioans can’t afford an Obama economic plan that would raise taxes on hard working families, seniors, and the small businesses that can lead us out of tough economic times.”
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TweetObama, Biden to jump on the bus
DENVER - Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama and Joe Biden, his vice presidential running mate, will jump on a bus for a battle state tour “On the Road to Change” on Friday, Aug. 29, after the Democratic National Convention ends.
The first joint bus tour for the candidates, announced on Wednesday, Aug. 27, will go through Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, with the first stop in Pennsylvania. The candidates’ spouses, Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, will be on the bus, too.
The trip is reminiscent of the bus trip that Bill Clinton and Al Gore took after their convention in New York City in 1992. Obama and Biden will compete for attention while Republicans hold their national convention in St. Paul-Minneapolis.
Obama and Biden and their wives are scheduled to be in Ohio on Saturday, Aug. 30, for a memorial service for U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Cleveland, who died on Aug. 20.
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