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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Palin to return to Ohio on Wednesday
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will return to Ohio for a rally on Wednesday, Oct. 27, in Bowling Green, the McCain-Palin campaign announced.
The rally will be at Bowling Green State University’s Perry Field House, 801 N. Mercer Rd.
Doors open at 8:15 a.m. for the 10:15 a.m. event.
Here’s information on where to get tickets:
Wood County Victory Center 134 West South Boundary Street
Perrysburg, OH 43551
Open Daily: 9am - 9pm
Lucas County Victory Center 10 South Superior Street Toledo, OH 43604 Open Daily: 9am - 9pm
Seneca County GOP HQ 103 North Washington Street Tiffin, Ohio 44883 (Fort Ball Pizza Palace Parking Lot) Hours : 10am to 8pm
Sandusky County GOP HQ 906 West State Street Fremont, Ohio 43420 Open: 9am - 9pm
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Obama to debut “closing argument” speech in Canton
Democrat Barack Obama will use his Ohio campaign stop in Canton on Monday, Oct. 27, to make his “closing argument” for why voters should pick him for president, his campaign said.
It’s the first stop for the “closing argument” speech that Obama will be giving as he campaigns around the country, Isaac Baker, Obama’s Ohio campaign spokesman, said.
In his speech, Sen. Obama will tell voters that after twenty-one months and three debates, Republican Sen. John McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he’d do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy, Obama’s campaign said in a press release on Sunday, Oct. 26.
Obama will ask Americans to help him change this country, and say that in just one week, they can choose an economy that rewards work and creates new jobs and fuels prosperity from the bottom-up, they can choose to invest in health care for our families and education for our kids and renewable energy for our future, and they can choose hope over fear, unity over division and the promise of change over the power of the status quo, his campaign said.
Ohio voters also will get a different message on Monday - this one from Republican John McCain at a rally in Kettering. McCain also was scheduled to campaign in Ohio on Sunday in Zanesville and Lancaster.
The dueling rallies kick off the last hectic week of campaigning for Ohio’s 20 electoral votes.
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Strickland to cast early ballot - who will early voting help?
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland will cast his ballot on Monday, Oct. 27, at the Franklin County Veterans Memorial at 300 W. Broad St. in Columbus.
Strickland is expected to vote about 9 a.m., according to the Obama- Biden campaign. He’ll discuss the importance of early voting before voting.
Oh, by the way, the Democratic governor is expected to vote for the Democratic ticket for president.
The Obama-Biden campaign has made getting a big early vote turnout a big part of its Ohio campaign.
The Republican McCain-Palin campaign also encourages early voting - as long as its for McCain-Palin.
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Eye on Ohio: Obama ‘Try This’ ad
By Martin Gottlieb
Dayton Daily News
Producer: Obama for America Where you can see it: It’s running in key states now. View it at DaytonDailyNews.com/eyeonohio.
Script: Announcer: “Not sure who to believe on taxes? Try this. Enter your income, marital status, number of kids. Then click. A nurse earning sixty grand? You get a thousand bucks under Obama. Under McCain…just one-fifty. The independent Tax Policy Center says Obama offers middle class tax cuts three times as big as McCain’s. Even leading conservatives say Obama’s plan is better for the middle class. One point five million have tried it. You should too.”
Obama voice-over: I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.”
Video: The ad opens with a brief shot of Sen. Obama and Sen. John McCain at the last debate. As the ad’s announcer talks, an Internet browser address bar appears at the top of the page with this address being typed in: www.TaxCutFacts.org.
Then a form appears from that site, with slots for entering the information the announcer mentions. Then an arrow points to a “Calculate Now” button. A screen pops up showing, as an example, that a certain head-of-household in the $50,000-$75,000 range in income with one dependent would get a $1,000 cut under the Obama tax plan and a $150 cut under the McCain plan.
After that, the screen shows the quotations the announcer highlights from the Tax Policy Center and from an “analyst” with the conservative Heritage Foundation think-tank, as quoted in a newspaper. Finally appears a man working at his computer, followed by a picture of a smiling Sen. Obama.
Analysis: Through most of the campaign, the Republicans have insisted that Sen. Obama wants to raise taxes. He has said that he wants to cut the taxes of 95 percent of people. In recent days, the McCain campaign has portrayed the Obama plan as welfare designed to give a tax credit to people who earn so little they don’t even pay federal income taxes.
The McCain campaign has used the term “socialism” to characterize the desire to raise taxes on high-end incomes while cutting them at low end.
This ad is effort to undercut that attack, by letting people ask an Obama computer how they would personally fair under his tax plan.
The ad seems to cross a new frontier in the age of computers, bringing interactivity to a campaign in a way that goes way beyond supporters contributing money and getting online pep talks. It is an effort to generate general public interest, to address people via their pocketbooks and to dramatically make a point. The ad seems destined to set the McCain campaign to the task of finding a rebuttal. Whether the answers the Obama computer gives are true remains to be shown.
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