Malin discusses in detail the recent election results in Ohio: "Knowing the deep interest you take in the Presidential election I hasten to inform you we have had one of the most severe contests ever experienced in the state of Ohio. A short time previous to the Congressional Election it was ascertained that the Jacksonites had so completely organized themselves that it would require the utmost exertions of the friends of the Administration to prevent the state from going for the General. Their operations had been conducted with so much secrecy and dispatch that it was not until they had out  riders in every township going from house to house circulating their papers & hand bills that their movements were discovered, we set to work with a spirit corresponding to the necessities of the case and our exertions have been crowned with success in all except our Congressman, letter this evening from Columbus places the election of Trimble the Administration Candidate for Governor beyond a doubt, also a handsome Majority in both branches of the Legislature, which is important as a United States Senator has to be chosen as soon as the Legislature meets. In this county where the Jacksonites claimed four hundred of a majority we elected every officer, yesterday was the election for electors, we have received returns from all the townships in this county and five townships in Trumbull which gives the Administration 551 of a majority the other townships, 30 in number, in Trumbull are known to be Administration and will increase the majority to at least 1400 we have positive assurances from our friends in the Reserve that the five counties of Ashtabula, Geauga, Cuyhoga, Portage & Medina will give the Administration nine thousand of a majority. Cincinnati & the Jackson counties to the south of us can not touch that, except Hamilton there is none of their majorities more than two to three hundred many of them less than one, since writing the above I have heard from one township in Ashtabula and Jackson had not a single vote Administration 94. Immense sums of money have been expended by the Jacksonites in the state electioneering where it comes from I have been unable to say, but one thing for certain there has been individuals, traveling over the counties for weeks for no other purpose than to electioneer for the General, that is not worth five dollars in the world, yet their expenses could not have been much less than two dollars per day some of them can not pay a debt of three dollars if called upon ten times before the election, Ohio is safe."

Unfortunately for Mr. Malin, Jackson went on to win Ohio by a plurality of over four thousand votes and the Presidency by a substantial margin. An interesting, revealing and detailed letter describing political activity during the 1828 election.