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Friday, October 10, 2008

Topics: Politics
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The voter registration deadline has passed, but the lawsuits over voting keep coming. Both candidates have spent time in Ohio this week. And the candidates aren’t just spending time in Ohio – they spent $4 million on TV ads in Ohio, more than in any other state. The campaign to keep the payday lending crackdown law brought out two candidates fighting to be attorney general, as well as two people who used to be the AG. There is a third candidate in the AG’s race, and next week starts the debates amongst the candidates. The Ohio Supreme Court has given the go-ahead for Ohio’s first execution since lethal injections stopped while states waited on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the procedure. The justices rejected arguments that 41-year-old Richard Cooey is too fat to be executed. And the Ohio Supreme Court will decide if the family of a teenage girl who had an abortion without her parents’ consent can have access to hundreds of medical records from a Planned Parenthood clinic.

Across Ohio and the nation, you’ll hear voters complain that they don’t like either of the two major party candidates on the ballot – that the parties are too extreme, they spend too much, they no longer deal with issues that matter. One presidential candidate says “there's not a dime's worth of difference” between the two candidates for president, and that a vote for him isn’t a protest – it’s a chance to help build a viable third party. Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr talks about his campaign.

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