Battleground Ohio: the race for your vote

With less than seven days until the Nov. 4 General Election, candidates from both parties are concentrating heavily on Ohio, specifically the northwest quadrant of the state.

In over the next 48 hours both candidates from the Republican Party ticket, Arizona Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, will make many stops. Palin will visit Xunlight Corp. Wednesday morning in West Toledo before holding a "Road to victory" rally at Bowling Green State University .

Sen. McCain will hold similar rallies in Defiance at Defiance Junior High School Thursday morning and an outdoor rally at the gazebo in Downtown Sandusky .

On the Democratic side, former President Bill Clinton will campaign for his party, on behalf of Sens. Barack Obama and Joseph Biden, on Thursday in Toledo at Grove Patterson Academy on Upton Street.

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader will speak Thursday evening at the University of Toledo.

The Obama-Biden Campaign Office announced Wednesday evening that Sen. Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, will be touring the Buckeye State Friday and Saturday during the last weekend of the campaign.

The Bidens' last scheduled stop in Ohio will be in Bowling Green on Saturday at 5 p.m. The campaign said Sen. Biden and his wife will be hosting a "Change We Need" rally on the lawn in front of University Hall on the BGSU campus.

The Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune , a FOXToledo.com media affiliate reported the program will start at 6:30 p.m. and The Bidens will speak at around 7:15 p.m.

The Democratic Party announced Thursday evening that Sen. Obama and his wife, Michelle, will campaign in Ohio on Sunday. They are expected to host a rally at the Statehouse in the West Plaza at 11 a.m. Sunday, then host additional rallies in Cleveland and Cincinnati.

Obama is expected to make closing arguments for the Obama-Biden ticket.