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In this Oct. 2, 2012, file photo, a man places a sign letting people know where to line up for early voting at the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati. In Ohio, one of the biggest prizes in the 2016 presidential election, groups have challenged shortened early voting, procedures for absentee and provisional ballots and the process for purging voters from registration rolls, potentially affecting when voters can cast ballots and how ballots are counted.
In this Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix. Trump and Hillary Clinton are making competing Labor Day pitches in Ohio, setting the stage for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign.
In this Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix. Trump and Hillary Clinton are making competing Labor Day pitches in Ohio, setting the stage for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign.
Vice President Joe Biden put his working class folksiness to work for presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in northeastern Ohio on Thursday, delivering blow after blow to Republican nominee Donald Trump. "This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth that now he's choking on because his foot's in his mouth along with his spoon!" Biden began the day in Warren, Ohio, arguing that Trump simply "doesn't understand" the realities of working and middle class people.
One in seven registered voters in Ohio won't receive an absentee ballot request form in the mail for the upcoming election cycle. Republican Ohio Secretary of State John Husted has decided not to send absentee ballot applications to more than 1 million registered voters who didn't vote in the 2012 or 2014 federal elections or who are thought to have moved.
The ad says the election of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton will 'crush' the middle class. 'It's more of the same, but worse,' the ad says Donald Trump's campaign is planning its biggest ad buy to date - upward of $10 million on commercials airing over the next week or so.
Donald Trump's campaign is planning its biggest ad buy to date - upward of $10 million on commercials airing over the next week or so. The campaign is expects the ads to air as soon as Monday in nine swing states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida, where the campaign has already been on the air, along with New Hampshire, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada.
Fearing a "rigged" election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is recruiting volunteers to monitor polls on Election Day - prompting voting rights advocates to prepare for fallout and say the real estate mogul's language already is bordering on voter intimidation. In recent weeks, Mr. Trump has called on his supporters in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio to go beyond simply voting on Nov. 8. He is urging them also to be on the lookout for any funny business on Election Day.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event at Truckee Meadows Community College, in Reno, Nev., Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. The presidential campaigns' Buckeye State ground game is on our minds this Friday.
The hero of this sizzling summer for Republicans is an unlikely one: Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, in many ways Trump's polar opposite. Yet the mild-mannered favorite of the Republican establishment has emerged as one of the few GOP Senators in a tough race who's A Monmouth University Poll released on Monday showed Portman with an 8-point lead over his opponent, former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland.
WASHINGTON >> Hillary Clinton will celebrate Labor Day with an edge over rival Donald Trump in any number of the most competitive states, even as she struggles with the challenge of sealing the deal with large groups of voters who consider her dishonest and untrustworthy. Clinton's experience as secretary of state and her handle on domestic policy make her the favorite in three presidential debates beginning later this month.
The Latest on a federal appeals court's decision that upholds a cut to early voting in Ohio : The Ohio Democratic Party is among the plaintiffs who challenged a series of Republican-backed voting changes, alleging they disproportionately burdened black voters and those who lean Democratic. Such policies include the elimination of early voting days in which Ohioans could also register to vote.
A federal appeals court reinstated a law that shortens Ohio's early voting period, finding the measure fell short of legal discrimination by placing a "minimal burden" on the battleground state's African-American voters. At issue was a 2014 Republican-backed law that reduced the period of early voting days from 35 to 29. By doing so, it eliminated the so-called "Golden Week," six overlapping days of voter registration and early voting when black voters have been more likely than whites to cast same-day ballots.
The Republican Convention was in Ohio. The Democrats gathered in Pennsylvania. In the month since, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton returned to both to campaign there.
"Hillary Clinton has reserved nearly $80 million in additional television advertising across eight key states in coming months offering both a window into how the Democrat sees the presidential contest shaping up and a reminder of her dominance on the airwaves in the the race against Republican Donald Trump," the Washington Post reports. "The campaign is targeting Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Hillary Clinton outspends Trump in White House showdown Wealthy Democrats help Clinton retain edge on Republican rival, filings show. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2bLlH5f WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump each raced to their strongest fundraising month of the campaign in July, but Clinton and her allies continue to outmuscle her GOP rival in the air and ground war for the presidency, according to new details of the candidates' spending.
A lawyer sentenced to five days in an Ohio jail for refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter button while in court has filed a federal lawsuit, saying her free speech rights were violated.
The oldest millennials - nearing 20 when airplanes slammed into New York City's Twin Towers - are old enough to remember the relative economic prosperity of the 1990s, and when a different Clinton was running for president. The nation's youngest adults - now nearing 20 themselves - find it hard to recall a reality without terrorism and economic worry.