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Nine apply to become next Franklin County elections board director Marc Kovac, The Columbus Dispatch © Joshua A. Bickel/Dispatch Nine people have applied to become the next Franklin County Board of Elections director, replacing Ed Leonard, who took a job assisting incoming Franklin County Prosecutor Gary Tyack. Nine people, including the current elections director in Lorain County and a couple of employees in Franklin County Auditor (and former county elections director) Mich...

He knows how the state works. in fact this is of course the native state of mitt romney. youre right, i think that its still the most likely scenario is whoever wins ohio going to win the presidency, but things are getting so weird and these numbers are getting so contradictory and no scam -bld that you have to start thinking about these possibilities about what if mitt romney lost ohio by an hair if he was to pick up a rich state like michigan then the map becomes viable again. its getting weir...

Its been an outlier relative to the other battleground states all along. and they think thats not a statistical anomaly. they think the romney campaign can talk about the history of ohio, but that things are different in ohio now. for the reasons i just said and the overall economic performance of the state. they feel really confident about the fact that they are -- that they have a decisive lead in ohio and that in the end, that that gives them a massive advantage going forward. >> andrea mitch...