Ohio, 2012 Presidential Election | featured news

President Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney, and their allies have already spent $87 million on TV ads, the Associated Press reports -- most of it in nine battleground states. They are, not surprisingly, nine toss-up states that will likely decide the election: Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Nevada and New Hampshire.

Mitt Romney has some simple advice for students who want to start their own business: Just borrow money from your parents. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made the suggestion Friday during a pit stop at Otterbein University in Ohio.

Mitt Romney picks up another conservative endorsement and a new poll shows him pulling ahead in Ohio, as the biggest day of the GOP presidential campaign nears.

As Super Tuesday looms, the contest in the Buckeye State appears extremely competitive.

Super PACs have poured nearly $4 million into advertising in Ohio ahead of Super Tuesday, accounting for most of the spending in what has become an overwhelmingly negative contest.

A day after he refused to endorse an Ohio ballot measure that limits public employee union rights, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he is "110 percent" behind the effort.

Ohio just moved its presidential primary back from March until May. So what is Mitt Romney doing Wednesday in the Buckeye State?