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0000017a-3b40-d913-abfe-bf44a4f90000Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU news team as the politics reporter and columnist in April 2012 , after 30 years of covering local, state and national politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. On this page, you will find his weekly column, Politically Speaking; the Monday morning political chats with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik and other news coverage by Wilkinson. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio gubernatorial race since 1974, as well as 16 presidential nominating conventions. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots, the Lucasville prison riot in 1993, the Air Canada plane crash at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983, and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. And, given his passion for baseball, you might even find some stories about the Cincinnati Reds here from time to time.

Ohio race "tight as a tick," Romney spokesman says

The race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in the key state of Ohio is “tight as a tick” and likely to stay that way right up to the end, a Romney campaign spokesman said before the GOP candidate’s event at a Bond Hill milling plant Thursday.
 

“In the last 12 days, it is going to be the candidate who is best able to identify and mobilize his supporters who is going to win Ohio,’’ said Chris Maloney, a spokesman for the Romney campaign in Ohio.

Maloney said “there is no bigger battleground in this battleground state of Ohio than Hamilton County,’’ adding that it is likely the GOP presidential candidate – and a raft of surrogates – will return here between now and election day.

As Maloney spoke, a warehouse at Jet Machine off Seymour Avenue in Bond Hill was quickly filling with a crowd of ticketed supporter who may number around 3,000. Maloney said 2,500 tickets were ordered online in the first 24 hours after the Romney visit was announced.

Romney is expected to speak some time between 10:30 and  11 a.m.
 

Howard Wilkinson is in his 50th year of covering politics on the local, state and national levels.