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‘Real News’ War Room: Campaigns Focus on Ohio As the Key Swing in 2012

Sep. 24, 2012 8:46pm Christopher Santarelli

With only six weeks left before election day, national polling shows that President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a tight race. However, when you look at swing-state polling, President Obama is beginning to open up a lead. This is true even in the extremely close and contested state of Ohio, where Romney has begun a three-day bus tour this week. On “Real News From The Blaze” Monday the panel discuseed the fight for Ohio’s eighteen electoral votes, which are of particular interest not only for how they will affect the final Electoral College tally, but because the diverse ethnic and economic makeup of the Buckeye State may serve as a microcosm for the nation as a whole.

To give an idea of how badly each campaign wants Ohio, a study by Kanter Media CMAG revealed that 18,482 presidential campaign ads aired during a typical late August week in the Columbus media market alone. Barack Obama won Ohio in 2008 by four points, and in the latest poll from the Cincinnati Enquirer leads Romney by five, within the poll’s margin of error. NBC News reports that Romney will be accompanied during his trip through Ohio with a blitz of TV ads from both campaigns aimed specifically for the key swing state:

Also tied to the Romney campaign’s bus tour through Ohio is an exchange of TV ads by the campaigns that’s really almost exclusively about Ohio and its white working-class swing voting population. The Obama campaign is airing a new TV ad in the state that seizes on Romney’s “47%” remarks.

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Meanwhile, the Romney campaign has its own new TV ad that is clearly about these voters, and wants to shift the resentment from himself to China.

Watch a clip below from Monday’s show on the battle for Ohio in 2012:

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Roon 1965
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 12:03pm
Living in Ohio, I come home after my 12 hour work day to an answering machine deluged with calls from PACS and candidate cold calls (6 to 1 Republican). I am a Reagan conservative. I work with 90% Democrats. Mitt has no resonating message to the people that surround my life. I could not stand him in ’08, and I will do my “plug my nose” thing, and vote for him like I did in ’08 for the guy who kept calling me “…my friends…” – and vote for Mitt. Tell me how such a political train wreck as Barack Obama is – that my party cannot generate anyone to build an ocean liner to compete against the Titanic when we all know where the Titanic ends up? His re-election means I will not live in this house anymore, that my job will most likely be lost as the financial structure collapses, and if our enemies are empowered to bring the fight here (we’re practically inviting them to do so), I worry about the lives of my family. No one I know thinks any of this is this serious. I think it is quite likely. I’ve read Steyn’s End of America, Buchanan’s Suicide of a Superpower, and Gingrich’s To Save America. With or without Mitt winning, I’m quite convinced we’re already over the cliff. What future populace votes in (Republican) candidates that run on taking away money and assistance they’ve received for generations? I believe in my soul and in my heart that in a few years I will be wondering where I will sleep and how will I keep my family safe and warm.

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greatgrandma
Posted on September 25, 2012 at 5:36am
I agree with you Whatsup, Kasich ( spell check) took Ohio from red to black in just a few short months. Jobs were coming back to Ohio. While all this was going on, Mr. O. was pandering his useless Health Care

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Stopit
Posted on September 24, 2012 at 11:03pm
Stick this in your pipe Blazers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R4KtYVF-74

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on September 24, 2012 at 11:31pm
  wow, what a great man. That interview needs to be seen by everyone.
  
  thanks
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 25, 2012 at 1:32pm
  i have heartburn all of the sudden. worth watching though. glad i made a note to come back and check it out.
  
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WhatsUp
Posted on September 24, 2012 at 10:58pm
. . .and if the Romney campaign is reading this. . .you better get your act together because Ohio starts early voting on October 2, 2012 (that’s in person as well as absentee ballots get mailed out then). Romney had better knock BHO out during the first debate (Oct 3) if he wants to impress Ohioans who might be voting early/absentee. There is no time to waste to get Ohioans to vote for Romney (and by extension, please Ohio vote for Josh Mandel for Senator!)

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Wilma
Posted on September 24, 2012 at 10:33pm
Maybe we need to start posting comments to Ohio newspapers and blogs to try and knock some sense into them.

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WhatsUp
Posted on September 24, 2012 at 10:12pm
Here’s the problem with Ohio. . .Romney won the OH primary even though Santorum took the majority of counties in OH. Santorum won 69 of Ohio’s 88 counties yet Romney won the state, and there in lies the problem. Romney won because he got the most votes in Ohio’s most populous counties, Cuyahoga, Franklin and Hamilton. . .Cuyahoga is a Dem stronghold (has the corruption that goes along with it as well); Franklin county is in Columbus; Hamilton is Cincy. . .if voters turn out in large numbers in these 3 counties for BHO, he just might take the state regardless of what Romney does in the remaining counties. . .unfortunately, it’s usually the “urban vote” that determines who OH supports vs. the rural vote.

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kissmygritsextremists
Posted on September 24, 2012 at 9:47pm
It is absolutely mind blowing how people are still voting for Obama because “they just like him” and “they just don’t like Romney” or whatever ignorant reason anyone else has. The fact that Obama’s resume could fit on one page, double spaced, should be a wake up call to anyone and I’m talking after the four years of being the president too! He’s got nothing! He’s done nothing but steal 700 Billion from Medicare, to fund his Obamacare. We’re in big trouble if he get’s re-elected and I may just move everything over seas, myself (at least for the 4 years he remains in the White House). Wake up Ohio and the rest of the swing-states. You think gas prices are high and the economy is terrible now? Just wait until he’s re-elected. It’s down hill from there.
VOTE ROMNEY!

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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 24, 2012 at 9:26pm
whats the point of nominating a liberal if he cant even get the independent vote?

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 24, 2012 at 9:56pm
  C’mon SOY… you know the answer to that as well as i do… We all know that Romney, while possibly being the perfect gentleman, and an all- around “swell” guy, and “charitable”, and blah blah blah, is still a big old phony. The indies fall into one of two categories: clueless or cynical. Obama has the clueless locked up and the cynical would almost rather stay with the devil they know… Romney was nominated because he stood the best chance of converting the cynical… He better have good debate performances is what it comes down to.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on September 24, 2012 at 10:14pm
  if he falters in the debates, he needs to drop out and allow Gary Johnson a shot against Obama. Seriously
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on September 24, 2012 at 10:23pm
  In the immortal words of Don Knotts as “The Incredible Mr. Limpit”….
  
  “I wish… I wish…. I wish i were a fish”
  
  Watch this SOY… I beg you…lol!!
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sItfoiWpnb8
  
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Chromo200
Posted on September 24, 2012 at 9:08pm
Can’t understand how Ohioans think Obama is will save their jobs and make their lives better. He is after the coal mines, making tougher to farm, adding greater burdens on their health care, and has his hand in their pockets permanently. Just because he helped save a few thousand autoworkers jobs the rest of the country has to suffer. Gas prices are high and Obama wants it higher. True under Bush prices went up too, but they also came back down.

I believe that people in Ohio will come to their senses and vote Mitt and more Tea Party people into the gov’t both local, state, and federal.

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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on September 24, 2012 at 9:40pm
  Good Lord lets hope so…………….
  
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- WhatsUp
  Posted on September 24, 2012 at 10:17pm
  The unfortunate truth is that Ohio is starting to turn around thanks to a GOP Governor/Legislature. . .and BHO will ride in on his white unicorn and claim that it’s due to his policies and unfortunately (especially up here in Dem-land aka Cleveland) too many folks will give BHO the credit and vote for him. . .the GOP (national as well as state–where’s Boehner on this???) has to do a better job of showing folks the facts. . .it’s not BHO’s policies that are starting to turn Ohio around. . .it’s thanks to our state government that Ohio has started taking baby steps towards getting back on track!
  
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