According to Rasmussen:
John McCain has opened a modest lead over Barack Obama in the key swing state of Ohio. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Buckeye State shows McCain attracting 46% of the vote while Obama earns 40%. Last month and the month before McCain held a insignificant one-point lead over Obama.
Seven [...]

From the Associated Press:
Republican John McCain can’t win the black vote in this year’s presidential election, but he can make inroads by laying out an honest vision of his presidency, a prominent black conservative argues.
Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s former treasurer and secretary of state, says McCain’s strength lies in adhering to an authentic message without worrying [...]

From the email inbox:
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) - The Ohio Right to Life Society PAC today endorsed Senator John McCain for President of the United States.
“McCain is the only dedicated and electable pro-life candidate for President this year. He has defended the unborn from abortion for three decades in Congress. The glaring difference between Senator McCain’s [...]

From Ohio Gongwer:
Mandel-Clark: Separately, Republicans on Monday wheeled out Rep. Josh Mandel (R-Lyndhurst), who only recently returned from a second tour of duty in Iraq as a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve intelligence specialist, to respond to comments made over the weekend by retired Gen. Wesley Clark.
During an interview on the CBS News Face the Nation [...]

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From MSNBC:
CINCINNATI, Ohio — McCain told conservative leaders that he would speak out more to highlight his pro-life record and views on other social issues to garner more Christian conservative support, leaders in the room said Thursday.
“He needs to find his voice a little better in Ohio,” said Mike Gonidakis, executive director of Ohio Right [...]

First, conservative leaders in Ohio, including Ken Blackwell and the president of the Ohio Christian Alliance, expressed their reservations about John McCain:
Family groups in Ohio outlined their doubts about the Arizona senator in a meeting with McCain’s advisers last weekend. They’re concerned about his record on abortion rights and on campaign finance laws that they [...]

Yesterday, Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic reported that the GOP is supposedly planning on scaling back anti-voter fraud campaigns, because one Republican source told Marc “that many within the party believed that then-Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell’s efforts to tighten provisional ballot rules ahead of the 2004 may have increased Democratic turnout because it [...]

Jim Geraghty has an interesting post at NRO about a recent poll in Ohio which shows Barry Obama with a solid lead over John McCain in Ohio. However, the breakdown of the polls shows the party ID breakdown to be Democrats 55, Republicans 30, and Other 15. One would expect Republican numbers to be lower [...]

From The Enquirer:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will come to Cincinnati on June 26 for an event that will raise money for his campaign committee and the Ohio Republican Party’s get-out-the-vote fund.
Receptions and a dinner for McCain - his first visit to Cincinnati since clinching the GOP nomination - at the Indian Hill home of [...]