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...With the two candidates close in the polls, the final results depended on grassroots efforts to get people out to vote. That task was complicated yesterday by terrible weather all across Ohio, with ice storms in Cleveland, driving rain in Columbus and flooding across the southern part of the state. By the time Clinton spoke to the faithful in Columbus, the rain had stopped, and it was clear that she had won Ohio by a comfortable margin. "For everybody in Ohio who's been counted out but refused to give up, this win is for you," Clinton said during...
...weather has been truly terrible all across Ohio today, with ice storms in Cleveland, driving rain in Columbus and flooding across the southern part of state. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is working with election officials across the state to assure that polling places stay open and accessible, Strickland said...
...This was always going to be a tough state for us." Indeed, not only does Obama still trail the New York Senator by 4 percentage points, according to a Real Clear Politics average of Ohio polls, but amongst union voters he trails her 56% to 34% in the latest Cleveland Plain Dealer poll, conducted February 27-29. Either way, Obama can already claim one crucial victory; by effectively splitting labor's endorsements with Clinton, he has prevented her from solidifying what was supposed to be a reliable part of her base...
...Thornton jumped in. "Well, take NAFTA, they're both saying the same things now, but that wasn't always the case." Rowland, 48, a member of a school board union, nodded - she says she's seen outsourcing destroy whole Cleveland neighborhoods since President Bill Clinton pushed through the North American Free Trade Act in 1993. By the time Thornton left, Rowland was "leaning toward Obama...
...Still, it's not clear how much all the shouting back and forth will change Ohio voters' notions about the candidates' positions on trade. Leaving his shift as a driver for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mike DiCillo stopped to chat with fellow Teamsters campaigning for Obama outside the newspaper's gates, one of hundreds of so-called worksite visits the union is doing daily across Ohio. DiCillo, 47, is planning to vote for Obama on Tuesday, in large part because of Bill Clinton. "The Teamsters endorsed Bill Clinton and then he gave us NAFTA," said the 22-year union member...