Ohio: Incumbent Barack Obama is laying low in hometown Chicago on election day Tuesday, but the three other protagonists in the presidential election have all converged on the same city: Cleveland, Ohio.
It is a measure of the intensity of the battle for the crucial Midwestern state that the campaign planes of Republican nominee Mitt Romney, his running mate Paul Ryan, and Obama’s Vice President Joe Biden all wound up within a few hundreds yards (meters) of one another on the tarmac here.
Romney, who headed to Ohio to help with last-minute get-out-the-vote efforts, touched down at 11:15 am local time. Twenty-two minutes later, with Romney still aboard his plane, Air Force Two arrived bearing Biden, who was heading to a Cleveland restaurant with some relatives.
Completing the picture as Biden’s motorcade drove off, the Ryan plane landed and taxied right up to “Air Romney” shortly before noon.
The convergence was somewhat unexpected: Biden was making a scheduled stop in Cleveland on his way to Chicago, although it had not been announced to the media previously, while Romney and Ryan revealed only Monday that they would fly to Ohio and Pennsylvania to meet and thank volunteers.
Ohio is the ultimate presidential battleground. Obama holds a slight but stable lead in the Buckeye State, according to several polls. No Republican has ever won the White House without taking Ohio.
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