Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Obama Versus McCain: The Battle for Ohio Residency
As John McCain prepares to leave Portsmouth, Barack Obama’s campaign announced today he’ll be in Dayton tomorrow to speak about his energy policy at a local school. This comes after last week’s visit to Zanesville in which Obama talked up his proposal to expand funding for faith-based organizations. And three weeks after he stopped at a senior center in northeast Columbus.
McCain’s town hall forum in southern Ohio marks the end of his nine day respite from campaigning in the Buckeye state. He visited the Youngstown area to tour a General Motors assembly plant late last month after holding a town hall forum at Xavier University in Cincinnati. In May he stopped in Columbus and Cleveland.
With 17 weeks to go before Election Day, I would put the over-under for combined upcoming candidate visits at 14. This does not count spouses, surrogates and vice presidential running mates.
