The Other McCain

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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 […]

E-MAIL TO LARRY SINCLAIR

Readers will pardon this unfortunate necessity: Larry: Bill Schmalfeldt is jumping up and down yelling about a bunch of insanity you spouted on your show last night, which I don’t have time to sort through. I’m covering a presidential campaign, having traveled to Ohio at considerable expense, a trip I could not have made without […]

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 […]

FROM OHIO: GROUND GAME REPORT

George and Rosemary Cullen of Clermont County, Ohio CINCINNATI, Ohio For the past two days, Ali Akbar and I have been talking to Americans for Prosperity about their grassroots organizing effort here in Ohio. We visited their Columbus office Monday night, talked today to AFP’s Ohio state policy director, Seth Morgan, and drove down here to […]

Mark October 30 on Your Calendar: Democrat Panic Hits Pandemic Stage

COLUMBUS, Ohio This will be seen in retrospect as the day liberals began to realize that Obama was going to lose the election, the day The Great Wall of Denial (erected by Nate Silver and the Democrat Graveyard Whistling Choir) proved itself too weak to withstand an encounter with reality. Yesterday, Jim Messina called the Romney super-PAC’s ad […]

SCENES FROM ROMNEY-RYAN RALLY

Children cheer Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney in Marion, Ohio MARION, Ohio Last night I was on deadline and didn’t have time to upload photos from the Romney-Ryan “Victory Rally” at the Marion County Fairgrounds Coliseum, so here they are: Paul Ryan addresses the crowd while Mitt Romney, Rob Portman, and Janna Ryan listen. “Campaign […]

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