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Friday, September 5, 2008
Honey, is that Ted Strickland at the door?
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland will go door-to-door in Cincinnati Saturday, Sept. 6, campaigning for Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, according to Eva Clark, spokesperson for Democratic state representative candidate Connie Pillich, who will join Strickland.
Strickland’s door-knocking is part of a statewide Knock for Barack effort that the campaign hopes attracts thousands of supporters in 19 cities, including Dayton. Strickland and Pillich will join volunteers gathering at the Ash War Memorial on the southwest corner of Hunt and Cooper roads at 3 p.m. Saturday.
In Dayton volunteers will gather at 2 p.m. Saturday at Obama campaign headquarters, 40 N. Main St., Suite 60.
The campaign hopes to send volunteers to 100,000 homes on Saturday and Sunday. Volunteers will talk to voters about the Obama-Biden campaign’s “plan to cut taxes for middle class families, create jobs and rebuild” the economy, according to a news release from the campaign.
Pillach, a Democrat from Montgomery, faces Republican Virgil Lovitt of Sharonville.
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Ohio FOP endorses Cordray for AG
The Ohio Fraternal Order of Police has endorsed Democrat Richard Cordray for attorney general in the Nov. 4 election.
“Richard Cordray was the clear choice,” Nick DiMarco, Ohio FOP president, said in a press release on Friday, Sept. 5. “Given Cordray’s track record of support for law enforcement, commitment to public employees and proven leadership in public office, Cordray will make an exceptional attorney general.”
Cordray, now Ohio treasurer, is running against Republican Mike Crites, a former U.S. attorney and Columbus attorney. Independent Robert Owens also is in the race.
With 25,000 members, the Ohio FOP says it is the largest law enforcement organization in the state.
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McCain expected in Cincinnati
Now that the Republican National Convention is over, Republican presidential candidate John McCain is heading for familiar territory.
McCain is expected to fly to Cincinnati on Monday night, Sept 8, and make a campaign stop on Tuesday, Sept. 9, although it won’t be a public event, the Dayton Daily News has learned.
No word yet on when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain’s vice presidential running mate and a star at the convention, will make her Ohio campaign debut.
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AP: 40 million watched Palin speech
According to an Associated Press story just released, more than 40 million people watched Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin give her speech on Wednesday night.
That is more people than watched the American Idol finale or this year’s Academy Awards. It also rivals the audience that watched Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s acceptance speech from Denver last week. In comparison, Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden’s speech was watched by 24 million people.
“Nielsen Media Research estimated 37.2 million people watched Palin on either ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel or MSNBC. PBS estimated it had 4 million viewers for the speech. Last week Obama had 38.4 million viewers on the commercial networks, topping 40 million with PBS and C-SPAN added in,” the AP article said.
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