The Other McCain

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OHIO: ROMNEY AIRPORT RALLY — LOOKING LIKE A WINNER, MITT!

Jackie Romine of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, sends a message to the press corps at Romney’s rally Friday GAHANNA, Ohio Last night’s rally at the Columbus Airport was a wonderful experience. How many people attended? Just say “capacity crowd” and leave it at that. More importantly, further Ohio early-voting data continued to come in, reinforcing the conclusions […]

OHIO: IT’S MITT’S TO WIN

Volunteers make calls at Americans for Prosperity phone bank in Ohio BLUE ASH, Ohio We’re at the center of the storm — ground zero of the entire presidential campaign — and you’d think this might provide some special insight into the ultimate outcome of the election. Not so. Ali’s spent the morning pondering the Electoral […]

OHIO OR BOSTON?

BLUE ASH, Ohio Ali Akbar stayed up all night crunching numbers for an election analysis that’s going to blow some peoples’ minds later today. A few hints: 7:57 a.m. ET. After crunching more early-vote numbers, @ali says: “We’ve got Ohio.” — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 4, 2012 Analysis shows 40% increase in GOP early […]

OHIO: MATH IS HARD

Nate Silver approaches a clue and almost gets it: For Romney to Win, State Polls Must Be Statistically Biased Missed it by that much, as Maxwell Smart might say. His headline summarizes exactly what Republican poll-mongers have been saying since September, as they see poll after poll with crazy oversamples of Democrats. As for example, […]

SCENES FROM OHIO ‘ALL-STAR’ RALLY

A Romney supporter in West Chester, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2012 (Photo by Ali Akbar) BLUE ASH, Ohio Friday night’s event at Union Centre in West Chester has been called a Republican “all-star” rally, the largest so far for the Romney campaign, as the Cincinnati Enquirer reports: The presidential race returned to Ohio for the final push Friday […]

WEST CHESTER, OHIO: MASSIVE CROWD FOR ROMNEY-RYAN RALLY

That tiny speck on the stage? Rudy Giuliani. BLUE ASH, Ohio I’ll have more photos later, but right now I just want to tell you how awesome tonight’s rally was. Rudy Giuliani’s speech was off the hook — the best takedown of the Obama administration I’ve heard this entire cycle, bar none. What Rudy said […]

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 […]

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 […]

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