Ohio: Oh-01

Corrected: Three U.S. House seats in Ohio are getting more than $600,000 in media buys from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The DCCC placed media buys on Tuesday to attack Republicans Steve Stivers in the 15th Congressional District, Steve Driehaus in the 1st district and Kirk Schuring in the 16th district. All of the districts received about $200,000 in media buys.

The liberal advocacy group Patriot Majority is the target of an Federal Elections Commission complaint by the National Republican Congressional Committee.

NRCC chair Tom Cole sent a letter to the FEC today, provided to PolitickerOH.com from the NRCC, asking the commission to investigate Patriot Majority for not defining itself as a federal political committee.

This fall U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Westwood) and state Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Price Hill) will debate one another after each campaign agrees on the debate schedule.

Chabot campaign manager Jamie Schwartz said he met with Driehaus campaign manager Melissa Wideman to discuss scheduling a meeting in the coming weeks to schedule debates this fall.

Yesterday Wideman sent a press release challenging Chabot to a debate on energy, but Schwartz said he didn’t want to comment about issue-specific debates before reaching an agreement with the Driehaus campaign.

[img_assist|nid=156|title=U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|url=undefined|align=left|width=420|height=280]U.S. House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) tells PolitickerOH.com that Barack Obama’s loss in the Ohio Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton does not mean that he’ll lose the state in November. Democrats voted for Clinton as their No. 1 choice and Obama as their No. 2, and come Election Day they’ll vote for their second choice before voting for their third choice in John McCain, Clyburn said.