McCain on jobs, Obama off trail

John McCain is in Ohio today to talk jobs and the economy, but there's a not necessarily welcome twist.

After a town hall in Lima, the presumptive Republican nominee is to meet with officials about the closure of a DHL shipping site in nearby Wilmington -- the product of a corporate merger worked on by his campaign manager during his earlier lobbying duties.

The Associated Press picks up the story: "In 2003, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis lobbied Congress to accept a proposal by German-owned DHL to buy Airborne Express, which kept its domestic hub in Wilmington in southwest Ohio.

In announcing a restructuring plan in May, DHL said it planned to hire United Parcel Service to move some of its air packages, sending them through an airport in Louisville, Ky., and putting the Wilmington Air Park out of business. Some 8,000 jobs could be at stake, Wilmington officials estimate."

The Ohio Democratic Party released a web ad on the issue.

Democrat Barack Obama, meanwhile, is winding down toward a week-long vacation in Hawaii that reportedly will start Friday. He has private events in Minneapolis and Chicago today. So unless there's a shocker today, that suggests he won't name his running mate until the week of Aug. 18 -- the week before the Democratic National Convention.