Update:

        Joe and his family are now eight years and a phenomenal 82,000 miles into campaigning nationwide for the presidency in the past three elections.

        Schedule for the week -- including impromptu: “average Joe” sightings--  12/10 thru 12/18:  Joe and family continue to be home in Cleveland planning logistics for the next series of tours, working on website updates, etc.  His children, Joseph and Sarah, have an indoor soccer game Wednesday evening that Joe and his wife Liz will be coaching at.  Joe will also be on a blog talk radio show this week.  And he has been contacted by the Ohio News Network about being featured on an "average Joe" sports show out of Columbus.  (Besides the soccer coaching, Joe often plays pick-up basketball with inner city kids, etc.)  Joe was also contacted last week about speaking at a Government Class at Lordstown High School in Warren, Ohio.         

        Current strategy:  The Schriners are currently focusing on an extensive Buckeye Back Road Tour of Ohio where they intend to stump in all 88 counties, twice.

        “We are trying to win Ohio,” Joe told the Morning Journal in Columbiana County.  “Wouldn’t that be the feel good story of Campaign 2008,” Ashtabula Star reporter Mark Todd responded to this intention.

        The Schriner family has recently been featured on ClevelandR17;s ABC News and Channel 19 News, Toledo’s Channel 11 News, Lima’s NBC and Fox News, Youngstown’s Fox News…

        The story has also run in most newspapers (big and small) across the state: Akron Beacon Journal, Salem News, Delphos News, Crescent News, etc., etc., etc…

        A recent excerpt from the Canton Repository, Canton’s largest newspaper:

        “Hillary? Rudy? Fuggetaboutem… Average Joe wants your vote.”

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