presidential election

Rand Paul wins conservative straw poll

Howard Wilkinson — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:25:41 +0000

Kentucky's junior senator, Rand Paul, was the narrow favorite for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in a straw poll this weekend of over 3,000 conservative activists from around the country.

CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Committee) held a three-day gathering in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C.; and participants voted online for who they would like to see carry the presidential banner for the GOP in 2016.

John Glenn touts Obama in an Ohio-only TV ad

Howard Wilkinson — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:05:21 +0000

For decades now, Democratic candidates running in Ohio - from president to mayor - have turned to one man for help, the one man who is probably the most popular Democrat in the Buckeye State - former senator and astronaut John Glenn.

Romney could make history by not winning Ohio

Howard Wilkinson — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Ohio, you may make history on the night of Nov. 6.

You may elect a new president without giving him your 18 electoral votes.

Consider this rather remarkable truism of American political history:

No Republican presidential candidate – going all the way back to the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln in 1860 – has won the White House without winning Ohio.

Mitt Romney could be the first.

This is not to say he will lose Ohio; he may, in fact, win the Buckeye State.

UC searching for new leader

Tana Weingartner — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:04:56 +0000

After this weekend's Homecoming festivities are over, the University of Cincinnati plans to focus on finding its next president.

Rep. Paul Ryan brings Romney campaign to Miami University

Tana Weingartner — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:22:08 +0000

Vice presidential hopeful Rep. Paul Ryan returned to his alma mater Miami University to rally support for the Romney campaign. Several thousand supporters cheered and waved American flags as he jogged to the podium.

The 1992 Miami grad called it good to back on campus.

“I spent a lot of my formative years here. I like my Skyline 5-way, turkey gobblers, cheese fries at Skippers, Bagel and Deli is still here for sure, right? Oh, I also went to school here,” he laughed.