Election Coverage

As the major party presidential candidates have come through Ohio, their paths have crossed with the candidates in the US Senate race.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says 128-thousand volunteers will knock on doors, make phone calls, and mail fliers for President Obama and other union-friendly candidates during the final days before the election.

Ohioans have been living the battleground state lifestyle for months. For the next few days, a few tourists are coming from the UK to Ohio just for that experience. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports.

Campaign reporters spend a lot of time pointing at color-coded electoral maps like the one below, showing which states voted for Republican John McCain (in red) and Democrat Barack Obama (in blue) in 2008.

But these maps lie — visually speaking.

Red appears to be the clear winner, dominating a vast swath from the South to the Rockies. It's all geographically accurate, but electorally skewed. For example, Montana (three electoral votes) dwarfs Massachusetts (which had 12 electoral votes in 2008).

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has temporarily halted an attempt by voter advocates to expand the conditions under which provisional ballots are counted.

The Ohio Association of Elections Officials says if the presidential race comes down to counting the state's votes, it could be a long wait to determine a winner.

Two new polls show the presidential race is tight in Ohio, but both polls give president Obama a slight edge.  the CBS/Quinnipiac/New York Times poll shows Obama with a 5 point lead, while the Ohio Poll by the Univversity of Cincinnati shows him 2 points ahead of challenger Mitt Romney.  Jim Messina, campaign manager for Obama says the the Romney campaign is propped up with inaccurate information.

Earlier this week, the company that makes Jeeps criticized a Mitt Romney campaign ad airing in Ohio as misleading. Now, a SECOND automaker is saying the same thing about ANOTHER Romney ad. The arguments are over new auto jobs and where they’re being created. Ohio Public Radio’s Bill Cohen reports.

Voters who’ve been undecided in recent weeks are coming down to the wire to make a decision in the presidential race.

A dispute over Ohio auto jobs continues to swirl in this key battleground state in the presidential election... with election day just a week away.  A top auto company executive is strongly restating that Jeep has no plans to move Toledo auto jobs overseas... despite a claim to the contrary by Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, and despite new ADS by Romney's campaign that hint at it. Ohio Public Radio's Bill Cohen reports.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is in the Dayton area today, urging supporters to help victims of the stormy weather.