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...Florida, four years later it was Ohio - could the decisive swing state in the 2008 presidential election be Colorado? Recent polls indicate that the question of whether the Centennial State's nine electoral college votes will go to Barack Obama or John McCain is too close to call. The state has become increasingly competitive over the past decade: President George W. Bush carried it by 9% in 2000, but four years later John Kerry slashed that margin almost in half...
...McCain struggled to get attention for anything beyond his occasional flubs. When Obama visited Jerusalem in July, McCain was dealing with an applesauce spill in a Pennsylvania supermarket. When Obama spoke in Berlin's Tiergarten, McCain was ordering chocolate cream puffs to go at a German restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. "Obama's foreign trip was the last proof that we needed--so it is what it is," says a second senior McCain adviser, who, like the first, asked for anonymity. "The media decided that the race is about...
...Born in Ohio and schooled at the University of Cincinnati, Ivins worked at Fort Detrick for 28 years. He lived in a small white house with his wife and two adopted children, directly across the street from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, and Ivins walked to work. He played the keyboard at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, and he liked to write letters to the editors of local papers...
...says. More to the point, if students have access to alcohol, they'll drink it - no games necessary. "You can't drink if you're not 21, but that does not seem to have deterred [students] in any way," admits Tammy Gocial, dean of students at Kenyon College in Ohio, where a drinking-game ban has been officially repealed. Gocial notes that it's already against the law for underage students to drink, so "to do the same thing [with a campus ban] - we know it's not working," she says. Instead, according to Gocial, Kenyon is developing a student...
...case, the choice between doubling down and compensating for weakness is not unlike the judgment awaiting Republican John McCain. He could look to a younger Republican who is more oriented toward domestic policy - such as Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, who is 48, or former Bush Administration official and Ohio Congressman Rob Portman of Cincinnati, who is 52. Or he could forgo those relative newcomers and instead try to underscore his own experience by tapping former governor, businessman and Olympics organizer Mitt Romney of Massachusetts...