COLUMBUS — Republicans on Friday settled a long-running intraparty feud, electing a veteran chairman to lead the party through the presidential election and naming the man he’s replacing to a national committee post.
WILLOUGHBY — This state’s Super Tuesday primary is proving to be the perfect microcosm of the nation’s unruly race for the Republican presidential nomination: Mitt Romney is spending lots of money, Rick Santorum is aggressively courting conservatives and Newt Gingrich is counting on big ideas to swing votes his way.
LAS VEGAS — Now it’s on to Colorado, Minnesota and Maine. With back-to-back victories fueling him, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is looking toward the next states that hold GOP nominating contests as main rival Newt Gingrich brushes aside any talk of abandoning his White House bid — all but ensuring the battle will stretch into the spring if not beyond.
After initially telling a Republican Party official he was backing out, Delaware County Commissioner Tommy Thompson has decided to move forward with his plans to run for re-election next year, even with the likely prospect of facing a GOP-backed challenger.
The Delaware County GOP is working to fill a vacancy on the Delaware County Board of Elections.
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s feisty ex-elections chief announced Friday that he won’t run in 2012 for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Sherrod Brown. Republican Ken Blackwell made his intentions known in an interview with The Daily Caller, for which he’s a columnist, and later in a brief statement on Twitter: “I am not running for the United States Senate.”