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Photo Courtesy: AP/PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS; AP/CHARLES DHARAPAK There is no denying Ohio will play a considerable role in the November 6 election. Recent polls from TIME magazine and CBS News have put President Obama ahead of Governor Romney by 5 points. Obama's gains in Ohio, however, may not be as significant as the campaign had hoped, given that the margin has been cut in half since September, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. The Quinnipiac poll reports the president holds a 50 to 45 pe

Photo: US Air Force / Author: Master Sgt. Scott Reed Despite a law passed by Congress in 2009 after low absentee voter turnout in the 2008 elections among US military personnel deployed overseas, the Military Voter Protection Project released statistics earlier this month which revealed that requests by military voters for absentee ballots had dropped significantly since 2008 to a record low. The most significant drops were in the key battleground states of Virginia and Ohio, which both saw re

Credit: User generated electoral maps on 270towin.com It’s the morning of Wednesday, November 7, 2012, and every major news outlet is reporting that for the first time in nearly two centuries, there is a tie in the electoral vote. Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have secured 269 votes. Fire begins to rain down from the sky, the ground begins to quake, and Republicans and Democrats lose their minds. Okay, so maybe the imagery of apocalyptic events is bit extreme, but the reaction people will

With all eyes on politics now until November 6th, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been front and center in the media, with most publications and TV networks reporting on campaign updates daily, if not hourly. As the presidential candidates sprint towards the finish line, the vice presidential candidates are also hard at work and on the campaign trail, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan are promoting their running partners and pushing their respective party's agenda before Election Day. Despite the short

Photo Credit: Ohio Tourism Division, www.DiscoverOhio.com In Ohio, much like elsewhere in the United States, elected officials are responsible for rewriting geographic districts every 10 years in an effort to keep up with political, racial, linguistic, religious or socio-economic shifts throughout the state. would shift redistricting power in the state by amending the Ohio Constitution. The initiative would convert the way the state’s Congressional and legislative boundaries are drafted by barr

Congressman Dan Lungren. Photo: Gage Skidmore The top five most partisan members of California legislature have been major players in their respective parties. By playing to the partisan divide, these individuals have prevented California from becoming more independently minded and have seemingly stunted progress. The negative effects of partisanship are not novel concepts to most Americans. Oftentimes it will polarize the electorate and stonewall third parties. put it, "We love to criticize ,

Congressman Dan Lungren. Photo: Gage Skidmore The top five most partisan members of California legislature have been major players in their respective parties. By playing to the partisan divide, these individuals have prevented California from becoming more independently minded and have seemingly stunted progress. The negative effects of partisanship are not novel concepts to most Americans. Oftentimes it will polarize the electorate and stonewall third parties. put it, "We love to criticize ,

Wet Stone is easy on the wallet, with most lunch menu items under $10, and dinner plates under $16. photo credit: wetstonewinebar.com "Wine bars" tend to have a lurking stigma: pinky fingers lilted in snarky sophistication; sniffling, snorting, and swishing around the rim of a delicate glass, and an obvious lack of substantial protein - typically substituted by insignificant amounts of fungal,aged cheese and past-due starch.  Perhaps it depends on personal perception, but, in a city where trend

Photo: Scout Tufankjian for Obama for America In a one sentence opinion, the Supreme Court handed President Obama an important victory in Ohio today. The ruling, simply stating "The application for stay presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied." effectively opens the Ohio polls to all voters. The Ohio early voting lawsuit has been at the center of several ballot access suits filed this year. While typically open to voters one month in advance of the election, the S

The State of Ohio asked the US Supreme Court Friday to block a ruling that allows all registered voters to cast ballots during the three days leading up to the Nov. 6 election, continuing the battle over early voting rights in that state. The plea was filed with Justice Elena Kagan after a heated legal battle between the Obama campaign and Ohio’s Republican-led administration over the extent that early voting should be offered to residents. Early voting began on Oct. 2 in Ohio, but residents w