'Just 118,000 votes' - Obama / Biden want OH really bad.

[jefferson_dem]

'Just 118,000 votes'
Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008 1:33 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2008, Biden, Ron Allen

From NBC's Ron Allen
NEWARK, Ohio -- For two days, Biden rode a bus south, through Eastern Ohio. His route parallels the Ohio River for the most part, along the border with West Virginia and then where it bends a bit West forming the border with Kentucky.

Biden is running a leg of a relay that "Team Obama" has been charting across this prized state with the two nominees and big-name surrogates, like the Clintons, here seven-straight days. Bill, and then Hillary Clinton will each carry the baton separately later this week.

It's obviously a state Obama is trying very hard to win, for perhaps obvious reasons.

In Ohio, the Obama campaign seems somewhat obsessed with numbers, beginning with the 118,000 or so vote John Kerry lost this state by, and therefore, the presidency.

Biden's staff circulated a memo, for example, with some numbers:
-- 89 Ohio offices for Obama
-- 43 miles is the farthest distance any Ohioan lives from an office
-- 13 barns have been painted with Obama logos. (We haven't seen them.)
-- 1900: the last year a presidential candidate visited a place called Georgetown, where Obama dropped by last week.

But in 2008, it’s really all about those 118,000 votes.

A local newspaper reporter, traveling on Biden's bus said, "He's hitting the battlegrounds in The battleground."

He's campaigning through a string of counties split by President Bush and Kerry four years ago, with an emphasis on building up the numbers where the Democrats won, and more importantly shaving down the margins where they lost.

That's why Biden was on stage outdoors under a full moon, on a warm Indian summer night, in Marietta, Ohio, Washington County, Appalachia. It's an old coal-mining town. Employers like the nearby steel plant have hit hard times. The population is shrinking. Poverty rates are rising. President Bush won here by a comfortable margin.

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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/17/1561327.aspx

[Every Man A King]

1. Come to Ohio to Volunteer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZ54575V4E

[StrictlyRockers]

2. The best defense is a good offense. Keep it up!!

[rucky]

3. Here's a groovy Barn-Painting Video...

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/ohbarns

Slides of other barns at the bottom of the page.