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...local records said was the first visit to the town by a presidential candidate since William Henry Harrison came in 1840. Kerry skipped Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech before Congress on Sept. 23 to spend some quality time with the Republican-leaning editorial-page writers of the Columbus Dispatch...
...million bombarding Ohio voters with political ads that have been shown some 82,000 times on television since March more than in any other state, according to figures by the nonpartisan Campaign Media Analysis Group. Nowhere in Ohio is the race more hard-fought than in Democratic-tilting Columbus and the ring of six reliably Republican counties that surround it. "It could well be that whoever wins the Columbus media market wins the state," says Steve Rosenthal, the head of ACT who has spent more than a few days walking precincts there. "And whoever wins Ohio, well...
...galvanize a notoriously recalcitrant group of voters. Or even keep track of them: at several houses where Lindquist stopped that afternoon, the registered voter had moved without leaving a phone number or forwarding address. "We don't bring 300 kids from Ohio State University into the inner city of Columbus," says David Leland, national director of Project Vote, a nonpartisan arm of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which claims it has registered more than 50,000 voters in the Columbus area. "I don't know that they have the same credibility, and they...
...real push begins. By then, the state G.O.P. wants to have each volunteer take responsibility for turning out 25 specific households that are likely to vote for Bush. The staffing charts for the past five days are already on the wall at the Licking County headquarters in suburban Columbus. By last Monday, 350 shifts were filled with 100 volunteers. Republicans, like Democrats, say this is an operation unlike any they have ever seen. "The grass-roots effort did not exist in 2000," says Richard Finan, a former G.O.P. state senate president who is working with a group called Catholics...
...great estate-planning move. John Sestina, 62, a certified financial planner and co-founder of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, is thinking ahead to the day when he and wife Bobbi no longer want to take care of their 8,500-sq.-ft. house in Columbus, Ohio, and also looking for a way to reduce his federal estate taxes. "If I ever tried to sell [this house], my wife and daughter would kill me," he says, "because they both love...