Ohio Still Major Battleground State For McCain, Obama (Survey USA: McCain leads 49%-48% in Ohio)

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[nurees]

Lot’s of “Democrat for McCain” yard signs around the Youngstown suburbs. This was Hillary territory.

On another note - I loathe the early voting here and what the Obama people are doing with scare tactics for the blacks in the area.

[shalom aleichem]

A majority of Ohio voters would prefer McCain. However, the Dems have moved a lot of “their people” from the Red and Blue states into Purple (or battleground) states. They get them registered at an address of a Dem sympathizer, and can vote via absentee in Ohio. Can mail in application for absentee ballot and receive a ballot to mail back in. It just begs for “fraud” to occur. However, I am told this practice is “legal” if they don’t also vote in their home states. If this practice is widespread enough, it could tilt the end result.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

I would agree, but DrDeb says the ground game in OH is a shell of what it was in 2004 for Republicans. What gives?

[MinorityRepublican]

I believe that but do you have a link to where Democrats are committing fraud by registering in battleground states where they do not live in?

[LS]

Dr. Deb is right. McCain alienated the conservatives here earlier, was late getting started, and only after naming Palin did he get any excitement.

The vote here is either pro-Palin or anti-Obama. Very few people are hyped about McCain.

Moreover, in 04, the "ground game" mostly consisted of evangelicals and Reagan Republicans, neither of which has been courted by McCain's people.

[PigRigger]

I might be wrong....but the poll indicates that Cleveland is offset by Cinn, Toledo, and Columbus....leaving the suburbs to decide the fate of Ohio...and there McCain is only up by 2-3% (to get to the 1% lead)?

Is Cleveland's population that much bigger than that of Cinn, Toledo, and Columbus combined...or...are the suburbs that close?

[Publius Valerius]

Greater Cleveland is 3 million people, and Northeast Ohio, where Democrats tend to run better than Republicans, is about 5 million people.

Ohio’s entire population is about 12 million, so yeah, Cleveland is that much bigger.

[PigRigger]

thanks for the info....

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Then how do you think things can go with such a weakened ground game?

[LS]

How do you think they'll go under such circumstances?

I still think McCain will win OH through no effort of his own. There is a ton of redneck Dem racism here. Look at the gaps between the polls on Blackwell and the final tallies in 2006.

[shalom aleichem]

Here is a Freeper report off Fox news:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095645/posts