McCain Campaigns in Ohio Today

By: John Bentley
Topics: John McCain

(CBS)

From CBS News' John Bentley:

(MARION, OHIO) – With its large trove of electoral votes and tight poll numbers, the state of Ohio is one of the top prizes in the November election. That's why John McCain is spending two days traveling around the Buckeye State by bus and holding a town hall meeting in Lima later this morning.

McCain currently trails Barack Obama by two percentage points here, 46 to 44 percent, but that's an improvement over the poll conducted here three weeks ago, where McCain trailed Obama by six points, according to a Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters.

McCain's vociferous call for offshore oil drilling and the construction of new nuclear plants may have something to do with his rising poll numbers, as the poll showed that Ohioans support both of those ideas – 56 percent say they are in favor of building new nuclear plants (compared with only a third of those polled opposed), and 64 percent want to see offshore drilling.

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by brittanicus-2009 August 7, 2008 9:31 PM EDT: You might want to ask your State representative energy conservation? How much gas, oil and electricity we could save, if we sent illegal aliens packing.
We cannot keep up the demand for it right now! Oil! Diversity Alliance for Sustainable America.(earthtimes) stated in it''s article that if the U.S. grants amnesty and gives citizenship to 12 to 30 million illegal migrants already here, as McCain, Obama and the majority of Democrats propose. That all those naturalized citizens could possibly add 120 million U.S. and foreign-born relatives to the U.S., in the next 20 years whom all will CONSUME MAJOR ENERGY. Does the American people need to escalate the 315 million plus population, the census estimates we have now? To a new total of 435 million?

The executive director of (DASA) admitted "Proposal to reduce energy costs in the U.S. will not work unless we also simultaneously curb U.S. population growth by reducing immigration and curbing teen pregnancies." Severing the illegal immigration occupation and deporting those already here is a good start, but not the complete solution to this serious energy problem that cannot be reversed. Clean coal, geothermal, eco-fuel and of course wind power and solar. The latter is energy that is a perpetual source of unimaginable power that knows no bounds. NUMBERSUSA, CAPSWEB have all the facts; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 August 7, 2008 1:32 PM EDT: Is dirtyOldManMcCain going have his (current) wife Cindy compete in another (topless optional) biker beauty pageant today?

With a little luck, Cindy McCain could be the First Broad, and Miss Buffalo Chip!; Reply to this comment


by richminiter August 7, 2008 1:25 PM EDT: John McCain is smarter than Obama and knows the best peck for VP would be his wife, Cindy McCain, who has the beeuty, intellegence and pose to solve our enargy problems in minutes instead of yeers. A McCain-McCain ticket would swing Hilary''s base into the Republican colum and asure a 50 state sweap by McCain at eliction day. I know it''s an out of the boks solution but McCain has bult his solud reputatoin for being a maverik and this woold certanly send shook waves through the Democrat party base and rook the Obama campaign.; Reply to this comment