ELYRIA – John McCain will attend a campaign rally Thursday at Lorain County Community College.

Helen Hurst, the chairwoman of the Lorain County Republican Party, said the event will be outdoors, but a final location at the college – which last hosted a major party’s presidential candidate in 2004 when Democrat John Kerry held an outdoor rally – has not been decided.

Hurst said she hopes the event will help convince undecided voters in Lorain County to side with McCain and help him win Ohio, a crucial battleground state in his bid to defeat Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

McCain will likely speak around 3 p.m. at the event, which is free and open to the public. She said organizers will ask people to begin arriving around 2 p.m.

For more details on this story, see Wednesday’s Chronicle.

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