KIRTLAND, Ohio -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is spending Halloween at three campaign rallies across Ohio, where she won a key victory in the Democratic primary campaign. Today's rallies are part of a series of appearances the New York senator has held with Democrats nationwide, campaigning both for the Obama-Biden campaign and Democratic congressional candidates.

"I was thinking about dressing up. And I really wanted to be scary," Clinton said at her first stop, acknowledging the holiday. "I've done the princess stuff, and this time I wanted to be really frightening, so I thought I would dress up like George W. Bush," she said to cheers.
"Then I realized John McCain took that costume."

Clinton later added: "This is our chance my friends. It's going to either be trick or treat. The trick -- we can't fall for that again. The treat is new leadership with a new president, in Barack Obama."

The senator spoke to a crowd of 800 to 1,000 people at Lakewood Community College, located in Lake County, a swing county in this swing state. Clinton won 62 percent of the county's Democratic votes during the primary. She bested Obama statewide 54 to 44 percent.

Gov. Ted Strickland (D) introduced Clinton to the crowd noting that, "Ohio and Ohioans have expressed their deep admiration of her, their deep respect for her in the primary election.

"We are proud of the fact that Ohio spoke so strongly. But we are equally proud that now that the primary is over, and we are facing the general election, that Hillary Rodham Clinton is working her heart out to make sure that Barack Obama is the next president of the United States of America."

By Ed O'Keefe, The Washington Post, October 31, 2008