The Obama campaign has opened up a narrow lead over McCain (49 percent to 42 percent, plus or minus 2 percentage points) in the battleground of Ohio. It is a state that has proven decisive in many presidential elections. Across rural Ohio McCain still leads in the polls, some 50 to 45 percent in the West and South of the state according to a Columbus Dispatch Poll taken Sept. 24 through Oct. 3 and published yesterday.
What to make then of the revelation from the Cleveland Plain Dealer that Obama has Irish relatives all over rural Ohio?
One of Obama's local cousins is the award-winning Ohio chef and restaurateur Anne Kearney. Another is seventy two year old Roger Kearney (see photo above.) Not all are welcoming the connection and Kearney complains that he has received "hateful" reactions in response to the identity of his distant cousin including both overt and covert racist remarks. The Plain Dealer has more
McCain is scheduled to appear in Cleveland on Wednesday, while Obama plans a two-day bus trip across Ohio this week
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