00:00:01>> SUPPORT FOR THE STATEWIDE
BROADCAST IT COMES FROM THE LAW
00:00:08OFFICES OF PORTER, WRIGHT,
MORRIS, AND ARTHUR, HELPING
00:00:12BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUAL SOLVE
A COMPLEX LEGAL PROBLEMS
00:00:16THROUGHOUT OHIO, ACROSS THE
COUNTRY, AND AROUND THE ROLE.
00:00:19FIND AS ON THE WEB.
AND FROM THE OHIO EDUCATION
00:00:22ASSOCIATION, REPRESENTING
131,000 TEACHERS, SUPPORT
00:00:26PROFESSIONALS, AND HIGHER
EDUCATION FACULTY WHO ARE
00:00:29WORKING FOR GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
FOR EVERY CHILD.
00:00:31FIND US ONLINE.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE STATE
00:00:35OF OHIO IS MADE POSSIBLE BY E-
TECH OHIO AND THE LUBRIZOL
00:00:41FOUNDATION.
>> THE MAJOR PARTY PRESIDENTIAL
00:00:44CANDIDATES RACKING UP THE MILES
AND HOURS IN OHIO ON THIS, THE
00:00:46FINAL WEEKEND BEFORE THE
ELECTION.
00:00:47MORE THAN A MILLION VOTERS HAVE
ALREADY CAST BALLOTS, BUT THERE
00:00:51ARE CONCERNS ABOUT HOW THE
STATE WILL HANDLE THOSE WHO VOTE
00:00:53PROVISIONALLY OR WHO DON'T GET
THEIR BALLOTS IN ON TIME.
00:00:56THE FIRST ISSUE ON THE
STATEWIDE BALLOT IS PERHAPS THE
00:00:58LEAST DISCUSSED THING IN THIS
ELECTION.
00:01:01WE'LL GO THROUGH THE ARGUMENTS
FOR AND AGAINST THE
00:01:05CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
AND A GROUP OF TOURISTS ARE
00:01:07COMING TO OHIO TO SEE THE ADS,
THE CAMPAIGNS, THE GET OUT THE
00:01:09VOTE EFFORTS, AND ALL THE OTHER
THINGS MANY IN THIS
00:01:12BATTLEGROUND STATE ARE SICK OF -
FOR FUN.
00:01:14ALL THIS WEEK IN "THE STATE OF
OHIO."
00:01:16SUPERSTORM SANDY ENDED UP
BLOWING THE PRESIDENTIAL
00:01:24CAMPAIGNS OUT OF OHIO TEMPORARY.
PRESIDENT OBAMA CANCELLED
00:01:27SEVERAL OHIO APPEARANCES THIS
WEEK, AND GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY,
00:01:30WHO WAS IN NORTHERN OHIO ON
MONDAY, STOPPED OFFICIAL
00:01:33CAMPAIGN APPEARANCES BUT STILL
HEADLINED WHAT WAS REBRANDED AS
00:01:36A "STORM RELIEF EVENT" IN
KETTERING ON TUESDAY.
00:01:39BUT WITH THE CRITICAL FINAL
WEEKEND OF EARLY VOTING NOW
00:01:42BACK ON THE CALENDAR, BOTH
CANDIDATES GOT BACK ON THE TRAIL
00:01:45IN OHIO ON FRIDAY THOUGH FORMER
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, WHO HAD
00:01:50BEEN IN YOUNGSTOWN WITH VICE
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ON MONDAY,
00:01:53WAS IN TOLEDO, AKRON AND
CHILLICOTHE ON THURSDAY.
00:01:55PRESIDENT OBAMA STARTED FRIDAY
AT THE FRANKLIN COUNTY
00:02:00FAIRGROUNDS BEFORE HEADING TO
SPRINGFIELD AND LIMA.
00:02:03ROMNEY HAD LATE RALLIES TOO
LATE TO SHOW YOU PICTURES HERE
00:02:07SCHEDULED FOR ETNA EAST OF
COLUMBUS AND THEN A BIG EVENT
00:02:10NEAR CINCINNATI, WHICH WAS SET
TO FEATURE BOTH ROMNEY AND HIS
00:02:13RUNNING MATE PAUL RYAN AND
THEIR SPOUSES, KICKING OFF A
00:02:15FOUR DAY GOP TOUR OF 11 STATES.
ALONG WITH OTHER REPUBLICAN
00:02:22GUESTS.
AND THIS WEEKEND, IT'S THE
00:02:24BATTLE OF THE BANDS, SO TO
SPEAK.
00:02:25OBAMA HAS ANNOUNCED HE'LL BE
BACK IN CINCINNATI ON SUNDAY,
00:02:29WITH STEVIE WONDER ALONGSIDE
HIM.
00:02:30AND THEN MONDAY IN COLUMBUS,
FOLLOWING JAY-Z AND BRUCE
00:02:33SPRINGSTEEN.
ROMNEY WILL BE IN CLEVELAND
00:02:36WITH COUNTRY SINGER RODNEY
ATKINS AND SOUL SINGER SAM MOORE
00:02:37AND THEN MONDAY IN COLUMBUS WITH
THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND.
00:02:40MORE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL
CONTEST IN OHIO COMING UP.
00:02:44A FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMON PLEAS
JUDGE HAS FINALLY CLEARED THE
00:02:48NAME OF AN OHIO MAN WHO SPENT
MORE THAN FIVE YEARS ON DEATH
00:02:51ROW FOR A PAIR OF SLAYINGS HE
DIDN'T COMMIT.
00:02:54THE RULING FINALLY DECLARES
DALE JOHNSTON INNOCENT IN THE
00:02:571982 MURDERS OF HIS
STEPDAUGHTER ANNETTE COOPER AND
00:03:00HER FIANCÉ TODD SCHULTZ.
THE TEENS' BODIES WERE CUT UP
00:03:04AND BURIED IN A CORNFIELD AND
THROWN INTO THE HOCKING RIVER
00:03:07IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO.
JOHNSTON WAS FREED IN 1990.
00:03:09A FORMER TREASURER TO MORE THAN
A DOZEN OHIO CHARTER SCHOOLS
00:03:16HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS
IN PRISON FOR EMBEZZLING MORE
00:03:20THAN $470,000 IN FEDERAL
EDUCATION FUNDS FOR FOUR SCHOOLS
00:03:23OVER SIX YEARS.
THE ARREST OF 57-YEAR-OLD CARL
00:03:29SHYE, JR., OF NEW ALBANY IN MAY
INVOLVED AUDITOR DAVID YOST AND
00:03:33INVESTIGATORS WITH THE FBI AND
THE US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
00:03:36U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE
GREGORY FROST SAID HE PICKED A
00:03:40SENTENCE THAT WOULD SEND A
STRONG MESSAGE TO OTHERS
00:03:43CONTEMPLATING STEALING MONEY
FROM SCHOOLS AND THEIR
00:03:46STUDENTS, WHILE RECOGNIZING THE
GOOD SHYE HAS DONE IN OTHER
00:03:48AREAS OF HIS LIFE.
SHYE COULD HAVE RECEIVED MORE
00:03:52THAN THREE YEARS BEHIND BARS.
EXOTIC ANIMAL OWNERS IN OHIO
00:03:56ARE FACING A MONDAY DEADLINE TO
REGISTER THEIR ANIMALS.
00:03:58AND A NEWLY FORMED BOARD
CREATED BY OHIO'S LAW ON EXOTIC
00:04:02ANIMALS HAS SET TEMPORARY RULES
FOR CAGE SIZES AND CARETAKING OF
00:04:06THE DANGEROUS WILDLIFE.
THE DANGEROUS AND RESTRICTED
00:04:10ANIMALS ADVISORY BOARD HAS
ESTABLISHED INTERIM HOUSING
00:04:14RULES FOR REGULATED ANIMALS,
SUCH AS ALLIGATORS, COUGARS AND
00:04:17LIONS.
THE ADVISORY BOARD DECIDES THE
00:04:19PROPER THICKNESS OF THE
ANIMALS' CAGES AND HOW THEY
00:04:22SHOULD BE MAINTAINED, AMONG
OTHER REQUIREMENTS.
00:04:24MORE PERMANENT STANDARDS WILL
BE PUT IN PLACE WHEN NEW STATE
00:04:28PERMITS ARE REQUIRED IN 2014.
OWNERS MUST REGISTER THEIR
00:04:32EXOTIC ANIMALS WITH STATE
OFFICIALS BY NOVEMBER 5.
00:04:34IF THEY DON'T, OWNERS COULD
FACE A FIRST-DEGREE MISDEMEANOR
00:04:38CHARGE FOR THE FIRST OFFENSE,
AND A FIFTH-DEGREE FELONY FOR
00:04:42EACH SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE.
EARLY VOTING HAS BEEN BIG THIS
00:04:46TIME AROUND.
SECRETARY OF STATE JON HUSTED
00:04:48SAYS MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION OF
OHIO'S NEARLY 8 MILLION
00:04:51REGISTERED VOTERS HAVE CAST
BALLOTS, EITHER AFTER
00:04:53REQUESTING BALLOTS BY MAIL OR
CASTING BALLOTS IN PERSON.
00:04:561.3 MILLION ABSENTEE BALLOTS
HAVE BEEN REQUESTED, AND MORE
00:05:01THAN 950,000 HAVE BEEN RETURNED.
AND MORE THAN 306-THOUSAND
00:05:06VOTERS HAVE CAST BALLOTS AT
BOARDS OF ELECTIONS OR VOTING
00:05:08CENTERS.
ABOUT 30% OF VOTERS CAST
00:05:11BALLOTS EARLY IN 2008, EITHER BY
MAIL OR IN PERSON.
00:05:12AND THERE ARE SUGGESTIONS THAT
THAT EARLY VOTING STAT COULD BE
00:05:17PASSED THIS YEAR.
OHIO HAS CONTINUED TO BE AT THE
00:05:20TOP OF THE SPENDING LISTS FOR
BOTH THE CAMPAIGNS FOR
00:05:23PRESIDENT AND THE SUPERPACS, AND
THE US SENATE RACE IN OHIO
00:05:26CONTINUES TO BE ONE OF THE MOST
EXPENSIVE IN THE COUNTRY.
00:05:29WHAT LITTLE ROOM THERE IS ON
THE AIR AND IN MAILBOXES BEYOND
00:05:34THOSE TWO RACES HAS HAD TO BE
SHARED BY THE CANDIDATES FOR
00:05:37CONGRESS THEY'RE ALL UP IN
OHIO THIS YEAR, AND THERE ARE
00:05:39FEWER OF THEM AND SOME ARE
RUNNING IN DISTRICTS THEY DIDN'T
00:05:41REPRESENT BEFORE AND ALSO THE
CANDIDATES FOR ALL 99 SEATS IN
00:05:44THE STATE HOUSE AND A THIRD OF
THE SEATS IN THE OHIO SENATE,
00:05:48PLUS A HOST OF LOCAL RACES AND
SCHOOL ISSUES.
00:05:51THEN THERE ARE THE TWO
STATEWIDE ISSUES.
00:05:55LAST WEEK WE DELVED INTO ISSUE
2, THE SO-CALLED REDISTRICTING
00:05:58AMENDMENT.
THE OPPONENTS HAVE RAISED MORE
00:06:01THAN $7 MILLION ITS SUPPORTERS
HAVE BROUGHT IN JUST OVER $4
00:06:05MILLION.
BUT THERE'S NO SPENDING, NO ADS
00:06:08AND VIRTUALLY NO TALK ABOUT
ISSUE 1.
00:06:10IT'S A QUESTION BROUGHT BEFORE
OHIOANS EVERY 20 YEARS, AND
00:06:13ASKS THEM TO DECIDE IF THEY WANT
A CONVENTION TO REVISE, ALTER
00:06:16OR AMEND THE OHIO CONSTITUTION.
IT'S SUCH A ROUTINE, BELOW-THE-
00:06:21RADAR ISSUE THAT THERE AREN'T
EVEN ARGUMENTS FOR OR AGAINST
00:06:24IT ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S
WEBSITE, AS THERE ARE FOR OTHER
00:06:28STATEWIDE ISSUES.
BUT THE STATE'S TOP ELECTED
00:06:31OFFICIALS ARE HOPING OHIOANS
WILL VOTE AGAINST IT, AND
00:06:34INSTEAD LET THOSE APPOINTED TO
THE STATE'S CONSTITUTIONAL
00:06:37MODERNIZATION COMMISSION TINKER
WITH THE DOCUMENT.
00:06:40HOUSE SPEAKER BILL BATCHELDER
HAS BEEN MAKING THE CASE
00:06:43AGAINST ISSUE 1.
>> I THINK THAT PEOPLE SHOULD
00:06:49EXAMINE THE POSSIBILITY THAT
THIS CAN BE DONE IN ANOTHER WAY
00:06:52WHICH WILL BE MORE INCLUSIVE OF
THE PUBLIC.
00:06:55A CONVENTION, OBVIOUSLY, IS
GOING TO BE THE PEOPLE ELECTED.
00:07:00THAT WOULD BE 99 PEOPLE.
OBVIOUSLY, THOSE PEOPLE WILL BE
00:07:05VERY MUCH INVOLVED IN WHAT IS
GOING ON.
00:07:07BUT THE COVERAGE OF IS DIFFICULT
FOR THE MEDIA, VERY DIFFICULT
00:07:11ACTUALLY.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE 1912
00:07:13CONVENTION.
SO IT IS A SITUATION WHERE I
00:07:16THINK IF PEOPLE WOULD REALLY
LIKE TO GET THINGS EXAMINED IN
00:07:22DEPTH, THAT THE ALTERNATIVE OF A
MODERNIZATION COMMISSION IS
00:07:25PREFERABLE.
>> YOU CERTAINLY HAVE PEOPLE WHO
00:07:28ARE SUSPICIOUS OF A
MODERNIZATION COMMISSION.
00:07:31THEY FEEL THAT THEY WOULD RATHER
HAVE A MORE PUBLIC EVENT, A
00:07:36CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
EXPLAIN WITH THE MODERNIZATION
00:07:38WOULD DO THAT A CONVENTION WOULD
NOT.
00:07:40>> WHAT WE HAVE IS THE
OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THINGS
00:07:43REALLY IN DEPTH WHICH WILL HAVE
TO BE JUST SORT OF MOVED QUICKLY
00:07:47THROUGH A CONVENTION.
I MEAN, PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO
00:07:50WANT TO SERVE ON THE CONVENTION
FOR TWO YEARS OR ANYTHING LIKE
00:07:53THAT.
SO THIS WOULD BE AN ORGANIZATION
00:07:56THAT WOULD LOOK SPECIFICALLY AT
ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF ISSUES
00:07:59THAT ARE IN FRONT OF THE PUBLIC.
RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE TWO COUNTIES
00:08:04THAT HAVE ALL -- ADOPTED AN
ALTERNATIVE SYSTEM, FOR EXAMPLE.
00:08:07HOW HAS THAT WORKED?
DOES IT REALLY REQUIRE US TO DO
00:08:14A BETTER JOB OF GIVING BAD
OPTION TO THE PUBLIC?
00:08:16THOSE KINDS OF THINGS I THINK
ARE VERY IMPORTANT, BUT THEY ARE
00:08:20NOT NECESSARILY THE KIND OF
THINGS THAT A CONSTITUTIONAL
00:08:24CONVENTION WILL BE ABLE TO SPEND
A LOT OF TIME ON.
00:08:25THEY WILL GET A LOT OF THE HOT-
BUTTON ISSUES AND THERE WILL BE
00:08:29A GREAT DEAL OF DEBATE OF A HOT
TIME OVER THOSE ISSUES.
00:08:34SO IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WE ARE A
LOT BETTER OFF TO HAVE A MORE
00:08:39DELIBERATE APPROACH.
AND I REALLY BELIEVE THAT THIS
00:08:42WILL PROVIDE THAT.
>> IS THERE A FEAR THAT A
00:08:45CONVICTION WOULD GET HIJACKED
BY EXTREMES ON BOTH SIDES?
00:08:49>> IT IS POSSIBLE, SURE.
I THINK THAT THE ONE IN 1912
00:08:55WENT BEYOND WHAT ANYBODY WOULD
HAVE ANTICIPATED IN CERTAIN
00:08:58AREAS.
HOME RULE, FOR EXAMPLE, HAD BEEN
00:09:01ALIEN REALLY TO THE OHIO SYSTEM
PRIOR TO THAT.
00:09:04THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE
INVOLVED WHO WERE ELECTED ACROSS
00:09:09THE STATE WHO WERE PART OF TWO A
VERY BIG STRUGGLES THAT ARE
00:09:13GOING ON BETWEEN THE PROGRESSES
AND THE MORE CONSERVATIVE
00:09:16PEOPLE.
AND SO, INEVITABLY, I THINK IN
00:09:20THIS CASE, IT WOULD BE EVEN MORE
SO.
00:09:22>> BUT THERE ARE OTHERS -
CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERALS -
00:09:24WHO WANT TO SEE ISSUE 1 PASS AND
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
00:09:28CONVENED.
AMONG THEM IS TEA PARTY
00:09:29ACTIVIST AND COLUMBUS ATTORNEY
MAURICE THOMPSON, THE HEAD OF
00:09:31THE 1851 CENTER FOR
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, AN OFFSHOOT
00:09:34OF THE CONSERVATIVE BUCKEYE
INSTITUTE.
00:09:36>> THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT
ISSUE ONE IS THAT ALLOWS OHIOANS
00:09:43TO GO AROUND THE POLITICIANS.
SO IF YOU ARE SICK OF THE LOG
00:09:47JAM AND A LACK OF REFORM IN
COLUMBUS, IF YOU HAVE ISSUES
00:09:49THAT YOU BELIEVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL
AND SHOULD BE IN THE
00:09:52CONSTITUTION, WELL, YOU'RE NOT
GOING TO GET THE DONE BY EACH
00:09:56ELECTING POLITICIANS TO PROMISE
DURING THEIR CAMPAIGNS THAT THEY
00:09:58WILL DO THESE ISSUES AND NEVER
ACTUALLY DO SO ONCE IN OFFICE.
00:10:02OHIO HAS A NUMBER OF SERIOUS
ISSUES, WHETHER IT IS LABOR
00:10:06REFORM, TAX REFORM, AND A NUMBER
OF ISSUES ALREADY IN THE STATE
00:10:10CONSTITUTION THAT ARE NOT
ENFORCED.
00:10:12FOR EXAMPLE, A SINGLE SUBJECT
RULED THAT THE SUPREME COURT HAS
00:10:15BASICALLY SAID IS UNENFORCEABLE
THAT THE FRAMERS OF THE
00:10:18CONSTITUTION CLEARLY WOULD WANT
TO BE ENFORCED.
00:10:21THERE IS A HOST OF ISSUES THAT
WILL GO NOWHERE UNDER THE GREAT
00:10:24LEADERSHIP OF THE GREAT REFORMER
OF TAFT AND ALL THESE OTHER
00:10:28POLITICAL APPOINTEES FROM THIS
COMMISSION THAT SPEAKER
00:10:31BATCHELDER HAS SET UP.
IF WE REALLY WANT REFORM, WE
00:10:34SHOULD FOCUS ON THE ISSUES.
WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT FOR THE
00:10:37STATE TO HAVE ROBUST,
SUBSTANTIVE DEBATE ABOUT PUBLIC
00:10:40POLICY ISSUES INSTEAD OF
LISTENING TO MENDELL AND BROWN
00:10:44AND OBAMA AT ROMNEY LIE ABOUT
THINGS THEY'RE GOING TO DO WANT
00:10:48TO GET INTO OFFICE AND THEN
NEVER DO?
00:10:50>> ONE OF THE ARGUMENTS FOR
COMMISSION RATHER THAN
00:10:53CONVICTION IS THAT A COMMISSION
WOULD BE ABLE TO DO THINGS LIKE
00:10:56SERVED FOR TWO YEARS.
A CONVENTION COULD DRIVE ON FOR
00:11:00TWO YEARS.
IT IS HARD TO GET REPORT --
00:11:02REPORTERS TO COVER A CONVENTION.
WHY CONVENTION RATHER THAN A
00:11:06COMMISSION THAT COULD BE
SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED ON THESE
00:11:08ISSUES?
>> THE GREAT THING ABOUT THE
00:11:11CONVICTION IS IT IS A COMPLETELY
NON-PARTISAN.
00:11:13THESE DELEGATES ARE ELECTED ON
NONPARTISAN BALLOTS BASED ON
00:11:17THEIR MERITS ALL OVER THE STATE.
IN OTHER WORDS, THERE IS NO R OR
00:11:21D BEHIND THEIR NAME.
PEOPLE GO DO THIS WORK, AND THE
00:11:26GREAT THING IS IS THAT THIS
CONVENTION DOES NOT OVERHAUL THE
00:11:29CONSTITUTION WITHOUT THE PEOPLE
OF OHIO HAVING A SAY.
00:11:32IF THE MEMBERS WANT TO VISN THE
BEFORE THE PEOPLE, THIS HAS TO
00:11:35GO BEFORE THE PEOPLE ON THE
BALLOT BEFORE ANY CHANGES CAN BE
00:11:38MADE TO THE STATE CONSTITUTION.
>> THAT IS THE CASE THAT THE
00:11:42COMMISSION AS WELL.
>> THAT IS TRUE, BUT THE
00:11:45RECOMMENDATION WILL BE
SUBSEQUENTLY VERY DIFFERENT.
00:11:47THE COMMISSION IS OF THE SUN
INSIDE BASEBALL, THINGS LIKE
00:11:50TERM LIMITS AND GETTING RID OF
TERM-LIMITS THAT THE PEOPLE OF
00:11:54OHIO VOTED FOR NOT TOO LONG AGO.
IT IS TO SERVE THE INTEREST OF
00:11:57THE POLITICIANS IN COLUMBUS AND
TO VARGAS ON ISSUES THAT PEOPLE
00:12:01IN TOLEDO, CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI
DO NOT CARE ABOUT AT ALL.
00:12:04>> BATCHELDER SAYS IF ISSUE 1
FAILS, HE AND DEMOCRATIC
00:12:08REPRESENTATIVE VERNON SYKES
WOULD START HOLDING HEARINGS
00:12:10THROUGHOUT THE STATE, WITH THE
GOAL OF COMING UP WITH A SLATE
00:12:12OF POTENTIAL AMENDMENTS THAT
WOULD GO TO VOTERS.
00:12:13BUT THOMPSON SAYS HE'S NOT
CONFIDENT IN THE MEMBERS OF THE
00:12:17COMMISSION COMING UP WITH
AMENDMENTS THAT WOULD REALLY
00:12:20ADDRESS THE NEEDS AND CONCERNS
OF OHIOANS.
00:12:21THE LATEST -- AND PERHAPS LAST
-- QUINNIPIAC/CBS/NEW YORK
00:12:24TIMES SWING STATE POLL WAS
RELEASED THIS WEEK, AND SHOWED
00:12:28PRESIDENT OBAMA WITH A FIVE
POINT LEAD OVER MITT ROMNEY.
00:12:31THAT'S A CHANGE FROM THE TRIO'S
LAST POLL IN SEPTEMBER, WHICH
00:12:35WAS BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATES, AFTER WHICH OBAMA LOST
00:12:38GROUND IN NEARLY EVERY MAJOR
POLL.
00:12:40IN THE U.S. SENATE RACE,
DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT U.S.
00:12:46SENATOR SHERROD BROWN LEADS
REPUBLICAN TREASURER JOSH
00:12:47MANDEL 51%-42%.
THE OHIO POLL FROM THE
00:12:51UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI SHOWED
THE DEMOCRAT WITH A TWO POINT
00:12:55LEAD.
AND THAT POLL SHOWS BROWN WITH
00:12:56A SLIMMER LEAD OVER MANDEL
FIVE POINTS, COMPARED TO THE
00:12:59NINE POINT MARGIN IN THE
QUINNIPIAC POLL.
00:13:02SINCE WE COULDN'T FOLLOW THE
CAMPAIGNS AROUND THIS WEEK, AS
00:13:06WE LIKE TO THE WEEK BEFORE
ELECTION DAY, I'LL TALK TO THE
00:13:09PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TRAILING
THEM FOR MONTHS THE STATEHOUSE
00:13:12NEWS BUREAU, JO INGLES AND BILL
COHEN.
00:13:13OHIOANS HAVE BEEN LIVING THE
BATTLEGROUND STATE LIFESTYLE
00:13:21FOR MONTHS.
YOU HAVE BEEN GETTING THE LATEST
00:13:27ON ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM
00:13:30PROVISIONAL BALLOTS?
>> EVERYONE IS SAYING THIS
00:13:33ELECTION WILL BE CLOSE.
IF IT IS CLOSE, ONE OF THE KEY
00:13:36THINGS WE NEED TO WATCH OUR
PROVISIONAL BALLADS.
00:13:38YOU KNOW HOW ALL OF OHIOANS GOT
THE ABSENTEE BALLOT
00:13:44REGISTRATION ASKING YOU TO SEND
IT BACK, THE APPLICATION.
00:13:49THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO
APPLIED FOR THEIR APPLICATIONS,
00:13:54APPLIED, GOT THEIR BALLOTS BY
MAIL, BUT THEY HAVE NOT VOTED.
00:13:57NOW THEY MIGHT NOT RETURN THEM.
THEY MIGHT NOT VOTE.
00:14:00BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING IN
WANTED TO ACTUALLY VOTE.
00:14:03THEY DID NOT WANT TO MAIL IN THE
BALLOT AFTER ALL.
00:14:06ALL OF THIS BILL GOING IN, THOSE
WILL BE PROVISIONAL BALLOTS.
00:14:09WE HAVE ALSO BEEN A SITUATION
WHERE PEOPLE MAIL THEIR BALLOTS
00:14:14TOO LATE FOR TO GET THERE TO BE
COUNTED ON ELECTION DAY, BUT
00:14:17THEY WILL BE COUNTED.
SO THOSE ARE PROVISIONAL.
00:14:20>> AS LONG AS THERE POSTMARKED.
>> ON MONDAY, THE DAY BEFORE
00:14:25ELECTION DAY.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POTENTIALLY
00:14:28LARGE NUMBER OF PROVISIONAL
BALLADS, AND WE REALLY DO NOT
00:14:31KNOW HOW LARGE THAT NUMBER COULD
BE BECAUSE WE HAVE KIND OF
00:14:35CHANGED THE PROCESS THIS YEAR SO
IT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
00:14:38THOSE PROVISIONAL BALLOTS, WE
WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE THEM
00:14:41COUNTED ON ELECTION NIGHT.
THEY CANNOT EVEN START COUNTING
00:14:44THOSE UNTIL NOVEMBER 17.
THIS COMES DOWN TO A VERY CLOSE
00:14:47RACE.
THOSE PROVISIONAL BALLOTS COULD
00:14:50MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.
>> AND WE HAD PROVISIONALS IN
00:14:55THE LAST COUPLE OF RACES.
POTENTIALLY THIS TIME THEY COULD
00:14:57BE BIGGER NUMBERS.
>> A LOT MORE, YES.
00:14:59>> ALSO, ABSENTEE BALLOTS ARE
COUNTED A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY.
00:15:04WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A GLITCH
IN TERMS OF HOW THE CHANGE OF
00:15:08ADDRESS DATA WAS TRANSLATED THE
COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION.
00:15:11TELL ME ABOUT ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
>> THE ABSENTEE BALLOTS, IF THEY
00:15:17ARE IN ON ELECTION NIGHT, THEY
WILL BE COUNTED.
00:15:20THE ONES THAT ARE NOT IN ON
ELECTION NIGHT, THEY WILL NOT BE
00:15:22COUNTED UNTIL THE PROVISIONAL
BALLOTS ARE COUNTED.
00:15:25>> AGAIN, THE ONES POSTMARKED BY
MONDAY BUT NOT IN THE OFFICE
00:15:30YET.
>> IF THEY ARE NOT IN THERE ON
00:15:32ELECTION DAY AND CANNOT BE
COUNTED, THEN THEY HAVE TO WAIT
00:15:35AND BE COUNTED WITH THE
PROVISIONALS ON NOVEMBER 17.
00:15:38>> ALL THAT COMES IN THIS
CRITICAL FINAL WEEKEND, THE
00:15:42FINAL WEEK AND WE HAVE HAD
VOTING ACTUALLY IN OHIO -- THE
00:15:45ONLY WEAK AND WE HAVE HAD EARLY
VOTING IN OHIO.
00:15:48THIS COMES AFTER SOME
CONTROVERSIAL ADS IN THE AIR
00:15:52WAVES.
YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THEM,
00:15:55SOME ADS FROM GM AND CHRYSLER IN
FROM BOTH CANDIDATES AND
00:15:58CAMPAIGNS.
>> ABOUT A WEEK AGO, ROMNEY WAS
00:16:01IN DEFIANCE, OHIO, AND HE SAID
THAT HE HEARD A REPORT THAT JEEP
00:16:06IS THINKING OF MOVING ALL
PRODUCTION TO CHINA.
00:16:09>> THE KEY WORD IS ALL.
>> YEAH, AND TOLEDO IS A STRONG
00:16:15FOR A JEEP.
THE COMPANIES THAT WE'RE NOT
00:16:17MOVING OUR OHIO JOBS THERE.
SO THEN AT THE ROMNEY CAMP
00:16:23PRODUCED A TV AD THAT CHANGED
THE LANGUAGE IS SOMEWHAT.
00:16:25IT SAID THAT OBAMA SOLD
CHRYSLER, WHICH OWNS MOST OF THE
00:16:30JEEP, TWO ITALIANS ARE GOING TO
BUILD JEEPS IN CHINA.
00:16:34WELL, TECHNICALLY TRUE, MOSTLY.
BUT MISLEADING, SAYS POLITIFACT,
00:16:41THE INDEPENDENT FACT CHECKERS.
THEY LABEL THIS SO MUCH OF AN
00:16:46UNTRUTH THEY CALL IT PANTS ON
FIRE.
00:16:49>> THEY DID NOT SAY IN THE AD
ALL JOBS, BUT SOME.
00:16:55THAT WAS THE IMPLICATION.
LIKE YOU SAID, THEY SAID IT WENT
00:17:00BEYOND THE FALSE READING AND
INTO THEIR PANTS ON FIRE RAGING.
00:17:06>> THE NEW ROMNEY FOLKS PUT OUT
A RADIO AD THAT SAID AT SOME
00:17:11POINT GM LOST 15,000 JOBS.
NOW GM IS THINKING ABOUT REVVING
00:17:16UP IN CHINA AND CREATING 15,000
JOBS THERE.
00:17:21AGAIN, TECHNICALLY IT MAY BE
CORRECT, BUT THE DEMOCRATS AND
00:17:27OBAMA SUPPORTERS HIT THE ROOF
AND SAID THIS IS SO MISLEADING,
00:17:33IT IS A LIE.
GM CAME OUT WITH A STATEMENT
00:17:35CALLING IT A CYNICAL POLITICS,
SAYING WE'RE NOT MOVING JOBS TO
00:17:39CHINA.
WE ARE HOPING TO CREATE SOME
00:17:41JOBS IN CHINA, BUT WE ARE
CREATING 17,000 NEW JOBS IN THE
00:17:46UNITED STATES, SOMETHING LIKE
THAT.
00:17:48>> FAR MORE OF VIOLENCE DO NOT
WORK FOR THE AUTOMAKERS THEN TO
00:17:52WORK FOR THE AUTOMAKERS --
FORMER OHIOANS DID NOT WORK FOR
00:17:56THE AUTOMAKERS.
BUT 50% SAID THEY CONSIDERED THE
00:17:59AUTO BAILOUT A SUCCESS.
THAT IMPLIES THIS IS A BIG DEAL
00:18:03TO OHIOANS, EVEN THOUGH MOST
PEOPLE DO NOT WORK FOR THE AUTO
00:18:06INDUSTRY OR AUTO SUPPLIERS.
>> TRUE, BUT ONE IN EIGHT
00:18:12OHIOANS A WORK WITH SENDING
LINKED TO THE AUTO INDUSTRY.
00:18:15THAT IS ONE REASON THE AUTO
BAILOUT MAY HAVE HELPED THE AUTO
00:18:18INDUSTRY IN OHIO.
THAT IS WHAT THE UNEMPLOYMENT
00:18:21RATE IN OHIO HAS COME DOWN BELOW
THE NATIONAL AVERAGE.
00:18:25I WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT THE
REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN SAYING IN
00:18:27RESPONSE.
WHEN WE GO TO THEM AND ASK THESE
00:18:30ADS ARE MISLEADING, THEY SAY,
LOOK, THE THRUST IS THAT IF
00:18:37THERE ANY NEW JOBS CREATED BY
AMERICAN COMPANIES DURING THIS
00:18:39BAD TIME, THEY SHOULD BE HERE,
IN THE UNITED STATES.
00:18:43WE DO NOT CARE EVEN IF THEY ARE
SELLING THE CARS IN CHINA.
00:18:46THESE JOBS SHOULD BE HERE.
THAT IS WHAT WE CARE ABOUT, JOBS
00:18:50IN UNITED STATES.
>> AGAIN, ALL OF THIS HAPPENING
00:18:53ON THIS FINAL WEEK IN THE EARLY
VOTING.
00:18:56WE HAVE HEARD THAT THE BROWN --
THE GROUND GAME, TO LEVERAGE ITS
00:19:00THEIR VOTERS TO THE POLLS WILL
WIN.
00:19:02JOE, YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING TO
UNDECIDED VOTERS.
00:19:06I GUESS THAT IS WHERE IT THE
GROUND GAME IS LOOKING NOW,
00:19:11THESE PEOPLE WHO MAY STILL BE
ON THE DEFENSE, EVEN AT THIS
00:19:15LATE DATE.
>> AND THERE ARE VERY FEW OF
00:19:17THEM TO THE UNDECIDED VOTERS ARE
LOOKING AT BOTH CANDIDATES AND
00:19:21TRYING TO MEASURE WHAT THEY
REALLY WANT IN A CANDIDATE.
00:19:23WE HAVE SEEN IN THE LAST COUPLE
OF WEEKS, THERE HAS BEEN KIND
00:19:27OF A MOVEMENT TO THE CENTER BY
BOTH CANDIDATES, TRYING TO GET
00:19:31SOME OF THE UNDECIDED VOTERS,
TRYING TO PUT MESSAGES OUT THERE
00:19:34THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THEM.
WE HAVE ALSO SEEN A GROUND GAME
00:19:38OR THE CAMPAIGNS HAVE BEEN DOING
THINGS TO RALLY THEIR BASE,
00:19:42RALLY THOSE PEOPLE THAT THEY
WANT TO GET INTO THE POLLS
00:19:44EARLY.
WE HAVE SEEN THAT.
00:19:48WE WILL SEE MORE THIS WEEKEND.
GOALS TO THE POLLS ON SUNDAY.
00:19:52THE PRECIOUS TO GET EARLY VOTING
OUT THERE.
00:19:55IN THE END, IT WILL COME DOWN TO
HOW THE INDEPENDENTS FEEL ON
00:20:02ELECTION DAY.
>> AND IT WILL COME DOWN TO
00:20:05WHERE THE VOTERS ARE.
LOOKS LIKE HAMILTON COUNTY IS
00:20:08GROUND ZERO IN THE BELT --
BATTLEGROUND STATES.
00:20:10>> IN 2008, THAT IS WHERE BARACK
OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS WON FOR
00:20:16THE FIRST TIME, I THINK, IN A
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SINCE
00:20:201964.
IF THE REPUBLICANS CAN PUT THAT
00:20:23BACK IN THE GOP COLUMN WHERE IT
HAS BEEN FOR DECADES, WE WILL BE
00:20:27LOOKING AT THOSE EARLY NUMBERS
AS THE COME IN ON ELECTION
00:20:30NIGHT.
YOU CAN SAY JUST ABOUT ANYPLACE
00:20:33IN OHIO IS THE KEY TO THE
ELECTION.
00:20:35ALL I NEED TO WIN IN HOLMBY
COUNTY BY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
00:20:38OF VOTES ARE WHATEVER.
BOTH CANDIDATES NEED TO DO WELL
00:20:41IN COAL COUNTRY.
THERE ARE ADS ABOUT THE COAL
00:20:47INDUSTRY.
THERE RURAL AREAS THAT ARE
00:20:50TRADITIONALLY REPUBLICAN, OHIO
-- THEY HELPED OBAMA WIN OJAI
00:20:56LAST TIME, BECAUSE THEY WERE
LOST LESS THAN DEMOCRATS USUALLY
00:20:59DO.
YOU CAN SAY THAT IS A KEY AREA.
00:21:01>> IT IS INTERESTING TO MENTION
IN THE APPALACHIAN AREAS, THAT
00:21:05WAS RICK SANTORUM'S STRONGHOLD
COMMUNITIES, HIS AREAS WHEN
00:21:10ROMNEY WON IN OHIO, BARRICK
SANTORUM GOT A LOT OF THOSE
00:21:15VOTES BUT AS A ROMNEY HAS TO GO
BACK AND WIN AS AREAS NOW.
00:21:19A WEEK FROM NOW, DO YOU THINK WE
WILL ACTUALLY KNOW WHO HAS WON?
00:21:27>> I HOPE SO.
>> I THINK EVERYBODY IS HOPING
00:21:30THAT THIS WILL BE OVER.
THE REPORTERS, THE CANDIDATES,
00:21:34THE VOTERS, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
HAVING TO WATCH ALL THESE TV
00:21:38ADS.
ALL THESE TV ADS, THE IRONY IS
00:21:40THESE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH
OF TV ADS, MILLIONS AND
00:21:43MILLIONS, ARE REALLY NOT FOCUSED
ON THE 40% WE'RE PROBABLY GOING
00:21:48TO VOTE FOR OBAMA.
BUT IT IS THESE 3% YOU'RE
00:21:52TALKING ABOUT, THE UNDECIDED
PEOPLE THAT ARE STILL ON THE
00:21:57FENCE.
>> WE COULD HAVE A SITUATION.
00:22:01THERE IS SPECULATION THAT
BECAUSE OF PROBLEMS ON THE EAST
00:22:03COAST BECAUSE OF SUPERSTORM
SANDY, WE MIGHT NOT KNOW.
00:22:07SO WE'RE BACK IN A PLACE WHERE
WE WERE IN 2000, A KIND OF IN
00:22:11LIMBO.
>> WE COULD SEE LAWSUITS LIKE WE
00:22:14SAW A FEW YEARS AGO.
MAYBE THE LAWYERS WILL BE THE
00:22:17REAL WINNERS.
>> ALL RIGHT, I HOPE TO BE
00:22:21TALKING TO YOU LATER ON ABOUT
WHO WON, WHOEVER THAT IS.
00:22:25>> I DO, TOO.
>> OHIO'S HAVE BEEN LIVING THE
00:22:31BATTLEGROUND STATE LIFESTYLE FOR
MONTHS.
00:22:32FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS, A FEW
TOURISTS ARE COMING FROM
00:22:34OVERSEAS TO OHIO JUST FOR THAT
EXPERIENCE.
00:22:35THE GROUP IS HERE WITH FORMER
BBC AND NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER
00:22:38NICHOLAS WOOD, WHO FELT THERE
WAS SOMETHING MISSING IN THE
00:22:40TOURISM INDUSTRY.
>> "IT STRUCK ME IF YOU CAN
00:22:43HAVE ART TOURS, HISTORY TOURS,
WHY CAN'T YOU HAVE SERIOUS
00:22:45POLITICAL TOURS? SO WE GIVE
PEOPLE, ORDINARY PEOPLE THE
00:22:49SAME OPPORTUNITY YOU AND I HAVE
HAD."
00:22:50>> SO WOOD LAUNCHED POLITICAL
TOURS, DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR
00:22:54POLITICAL JUNKIES.
THE COMPANY IS BRINGING A SMALL
00:22:57GROUP TO OHIO AND WASHINGTON TO
LOOK INTO THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL
00:22:59ELECTION.
>> "WE ARE SEEING FARMERS JUST
00:23:04A BIT NORTH OF COLUMBUS.
WE'RE GOING UP TO CLEVELAND;
00:23:06WE'RE SEEING A GET OUT THE VOTE
DRIVE, WE'RE GOING TO A BLACK
00:23:09CHURCH, TALKING TO LOCAL
COMMUNITY MEMBERS THERE, WE'RE
00:23:11GOING TO A UAW LOCAL NEAR THE
FORD PLANT, TALK ABOUT THE AUTO
00:23:14BAILOUT AND ISSUES THAT MATTER
TO THEM.
00:23:15LATER WE'LL BE GOING TO DAYTON
- WE'LL BE TALKING TO
00:23:20POLLSTERS, HOW DO POLLSTERS
ACTUALLY WORK."
00:23:22ON SUNDAY, THE GROUP LEAVES FOR
>> A FEW DAYS IN DC TO MEET A
00:23:27POLL ANALYST AND VISIT A MAJOR
NEWSPAPER THEN ON ELECTION DAY
00:23:30THEY'LL FOLLOW MORE GET OUT THE
VOTE EFFORTS AND WATCH EXIT
00:23:32POLLS AND ELECTION RETURNS AT A
NATIONAL TV STUDIO.
00:23:33THE OHIO LEG OF THE TRIP IS LED
BY VETERAN REPORTER BILL
00:23:39HERSHEY, RECENTLY RETIRED FROM
THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS.
00:23:41>> "I'VE COVERED EVERY
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN OHIO
00:23:44SINCE 1980, AND I WAS GETTING
SOME KIND OF WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME
00:23:47BECAUSE I WASN'T ACTIVELY DOING
IT.
00:23:49AND NICK CALLED ME UP A COUPLE
OF MONTHS AGO AND EXPLAINED
00:23:52WHAT HE WAS DOING AND I
THOUGHT, WELL, THIS IS KIND OF
00:23:55LIKE I COVERED A CAMPAIGN, AND I
SAID, WHAT THE HECK."
00:23:57WOOD SAYS THE AMERICAN
POLITICAL --
00:24:10>> LEE HE SAYS THE AMERICAN
POLITICAL SYSTEM IS INTERESTING
00:24:12AND FRUSTRATING.
>> "WELL, THERE'S THE MONEY
00:24:16THAT'S SPENT ON IT.
I'VE GOT TO SAY THE DEBATE IN
00:24:19SOME WAYS SEEMS INCREDIBLY
SIMPLISTIC, AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE
00:24:21QUITE AN EFFORT TO INFORM
YOURSELF ABOUT THE ISSUES.
00:24:23THE ADVERTISING IS OBVIOUSLY
VERY PEJORATIVE.
00:24:26I FIND THE DEBATE ON MOST TV
STATIONS IS QUITE SUPERFICIAL
00:24:30AS WELL, SO THERE'S NOT A LOT
OF OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY GET
00:24:32DOWN TO SOME REALLY IN-DEPTH
UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT'S GOING
00:24:36ON."
>> WOOD'S TRAVELING TEAM IS
00:24:40JUST FOUR MEMBERS - FOUR OTHERS
DROPPED OUT BECAUSE OF BAD
00:24:42WEATHER AND AN INJURY.
WOOD'S POLITICAL TOURS IS ALSO
00:24:46DOING TRIPS TO EXAMINE THE
EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CRISIS,
00:24:48POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA AND
POST-WAR KOSOVO.
00:24:50THE COMPANY IS ALSO GOING TO
NORTH KOREA, AND HAD PLANNED A
00:24:55DECEMBER TRIP TO LIBYA --
THAT'S BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE
00:24:59OF SECURITY CONCERNS.
A REMINDER ABOUT ELECTION NIGHT,
00:25:06WE WILL BE LIVE THROUGHOUT THE
STATE ON SEVERAL PUBLIC RADIO
00:25:11STATIONS.
I WILL BE DOING UPDATES FOR PBS
00:25:13NEWSHOUR DURING THE EVENING.
YOU CAN ALSO CHECK OUT THE OHIO
00:25:16CHANNEL OR OHIOCHANNEL.ORG.
TUNE INTO OHIO'S PUBLIC RADIO
00:25:24STATIONS ON WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR ANALYSIS AND FOR MORE
00:25:27INSIGHT AND REACTION HERE NEXT
WEEK.
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