Ohio crucial for Romney to win the 2012 election

(CBS News) Mitt Romney is in the Buckeye State two days this week, and with good reason: No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio.

"How in the world can people say they want four more years of President Obama? We can't afford four more years of President Obama," Romney said in a stump speech.

Romney has based his campaign on the economy, but in Ohio the economic picture has been improving. After hitting a high of 10.6 percent three years ago, unemployment has been at 7.2 percent for three straight months. The national average is 8.1 percent.

Outside Dayton, Romney also talked about how his plan to pursue new foreign trade agreements will help people in the state.

"The people in Ohio can sell products anywhere in the world and we can compete with anywhere in the world. I'm not afraid of trading with other nations. I understand when we trade and when other nations trade on a fair basis, we will compete, we will win, we'll raise wages here and we'll create jobs," Romney said.

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With the election possibly in the balance in Ohio, both sides are campaigning hard. Both candidates have been here 13 times this year. And they'll both here tomorrow.

They're also flooding the airwaves with television ads. They've spent more money here than in any other battleground state.

Since May, the president and the outside groups supporting his campaign have spent $47.9 million -- $40.6 million by the campaign and more than $7 million by outside groups.

That's more than Romney's team, which has spent $43 million on ads in Ohio -- $20.5 million by the campaign and more than $22 million by outside groups.

Another reason Ohio is so important is what it says about the other battleground states -- especially those leaning toward the president. It's a bellwether: If he can't pull off Ohio, it's hard to see the bluer battle grounds -- like Pennsylvania and Michigan -- breaking his way.

[libertyfreedomall]

In Ohio, voters demand truth about Benghazi in path of Obama motorcade.


http://twitchy.com/2012/11/02/as-obama-motorcade-rolls-by-ohio-citizens-demand-truth-about-benghazi/

[leahV2]

You don't know what you don't know. Keep floating around in your little dream worlds - it'll just be more of a rude awakening in November. R&R 2012

OHIO for Romney/Ryan!

[hypnotoad72]

Ohio - land of the Kent State Massacre... which in turn created Devo... Never mind their most notable song... a number of their less-known entries have interesting social messages... even their most notable ones have meanings other than what people assume them to be...

[hypocrisycentral]

Maybe if Romneys business plans were to gain small business owners (mostly republicans)instead of the "Bains" of the world gobbling them up, destroying them by loading up with debt, outsourcing and then forcing into unemployment countless families and bailing with whatever monies they could borrow against them, we could have a chance at the White House. Unfortunately that isnt how its been done for about thirty years and we are enjoying the fruits of their schemes. Conservative used to mean something that was good for the whole country, not just the stockholders.

[lesserof2evil]

Romney biographer and Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Arends, who analyzed Bain's performance between 1984 and 1998, concludes that the firm's returns were likely less than 30 percent per year, which happened to track more or less with the stock market's average during that time. "That's how much money you could have made by issuing company bonds and then spending the money picking stocks out of the paper at random," Arends observes. So for all the destruction Romney wreaked on Middle America in the name of "trying to make money," investors could have just plunked their money into traditional stocks and gotten pretty much the same returns.


Even Bain's Capital investors didn't benefit more than normally would from average stock markets at that time. The only people benefited hugely from fleecing American companies are Romney himself and his cohorts.

[hypnotoad72]

hypocrisycentral -

good points...

[Nikos_Retsos]

After a long campaign trek, Mitt Romney looks like a politically "dead man walking!" His wife has become so aghast with his critics that she shouted to them to "Stop it," or "Get in the ring" themselves and prove that they can punch better than her hubby! As a boxing fan, I know that spectators don't jump into the ring; they booooo!

Romney dismissed the 47% of Americans as irrelevant, but can he convince the remaining 53% of Americans who pay a minimum of 15% taxes -like myself - that their life will get better if they vote for him? If the wealthy like himself pay only 13% taxes and pocket more than $ 10 millions net annually, why should they get more tax cuts, while the rest of us remain stuck in the 15% ? Romney offends the intelligence of the American people when he contends that tax cuts to the rich will create jobs. Jobs are based on consumer spending, and leaving more money to the people will increase spending and create more jobs. I don't see how reducing taxes on the rich like himself, and allow him - for example- to increase his $13 million net profit in 2011 to become $15 million in 2013 would create jobs?

Mr. Romney's promises of prosperity to American people are "baloney!" He is in the race for himself and the other leaches of the 1%, not for us! Nikos Retsos, retired professor

[hypnotoad72]

I pay far more than 15%... and I agree with you, on every point in your message.

[dobermantmacleod]

That goes double for FL. A win in FL, and Obama may need only one more swing state to go for him (WI is something like +15 Obama) to win.

[venusvegasvada]

Romney to potential donors in California:

"I wanted to share some thoughts with you tonight. They can provide you with some comfort," he said. "Polls are not elections. The voters have not yet spoken."

No, the voters haven't yet responded to Gov. Romney's spoken thoughts and beliefs:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean, the president starts off with 48, 49,... he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. And he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that's what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people; I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5 to 10 percent in the center that are independents that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not, what it looks like."

[raflin1]

I live in Columbus. Ohio WILL be re-electing President Barack Obama. You can thank us now, America. It's GUARANTEED. Ohio is BLUE again!

[libertyfreedomall]

Ohio voters demand to know truth about Benghazi in path of Obama motorcade.

http://twitchy.com/2012/11/02/as-obama-motorcade-rolls-by-ohio-citizens-demand-truth-about-benghazi/

[tvwatcher5345]

God Bless the republicans!, they re-elected bush, which resulted in the election of the antiwar candidate, obama,(who got two liberal justices on the supreme court) and now he will get re-elected, and hillary will be elected after him (republican women will even vote for her (thank you akin)probably 12 years before the republicans will get another chance at the whitehouse, and to see the gnashing of teeth on the republican side is icing on the cake, along with the fact they will still have to come out on nov 6th and have to vote for a (moderate)mormon and a roman catholic, not to mention that the dems will also keep control of the senate (with the independents), i'm watching FOX on election night, i have the following wednesday off and am ordering chinese food, God Bless you republicans ... republicans, you should read the first part of psalm 52

[sharkboy234]

OBAMA IS IN IT TO WIN IT IN OHIO...

[hypnotoad72]

That's what politicians do - they try to win.

[libertyfreedomall]

Ohio voters demand to know the truth about Benghazi in path of Obama motorcade.

http://twitchy.com/2012/11/02/as-obama-motorcade-rolls-by-ohio-citizens-demand-truth-about-benghazi/