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Strickland reschedules speech to avoid clash with Obama

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has rescheduled his biggest policy speech of the year to avoid a clash with President Obama's state of the union address.

Strickland's state of the state speech had been scheduled for noon Wednesday and now will be held at noon Tuesday.

Strickland and Obama are both Democrats and the governor's staff said Thursday that he feared both messages would be diluted by the conflict.

Strickland is in the final year of his four-year term and is seeking re-election this fall.

Democratic Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley also scheduled his state of the state speech for Wednesday before the date of Obama's speech was announced.

His office says he had no plans to reschedule.

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