But if I were Obama I would be worried about Ohio given its history.
"Loud protesters interrupt Romney speech in Ohio
Protesters shouted throughout Mitt Romney’s campaign appearance Sunday in Troy, Ohio.
Romney gave an abbreviated campaign speech from the bed of a pickup truck in the hometown of House Speaker John Boehner.
A small but noisy group of protesters shouted throughout his speech,
which lasted about six minutes. “Romney, go home!’’ they chanted. It
was the third Ohio stop on Romney’s bus tour.
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"Romney’s bus tour, called “Every Town Counts,’’ is being shadowed by a
caravan of Obama supporters that is calling itself the “Middle Class
Under the Bus Tour.’’
Sadly, Obama has run them over, too.
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Related: Obama's Reelection Pitch
I've said it before, I'll say it again: where were these guys when
they had a super-majority and they not only didn't rescind the Bush tax
cuts, they extended them!! The whole slash the social services debt
reduction they are doing now could have been avoided!
I mean, EVERY TWO YEARS we are subjected to the SAME DEBATE and right
after the election it is back to BUSINESS AS USUAL no matter which
party is sitting in the chairs of leadership.
"Romney goes off Pa. itinerary to avoid Dems" Associated Press, June 17, 2012
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. - Mitt Romney rerouted his tour after Pennsylvania’s former governor, Ed
Rendell, and several other Democratic officials held a press conference
outside the Wawa gas station where the former Massachusetts governor had
planned an early afternoon stop. Protestors gathered outside the store.
So Romney decided to visit a different Wawa store....
Instead of making prepared remarks to the crowd gathered outside the
first location - Romney’s advance team had set up a microphone - the
Republican’s bus went instead to the second Quakertown Wawa and made a
quick tour through the store.
The detour threw Romney off the jobs-and-economy message he had been pushing earlier in the day....
Criticizing the president, Romney slipped and referred to Obama as a “governor.’’
Or else he intended to insult him.
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The stop was the first of three planned appearances in small towns in
this state with 20 electoral votes that Obama won in 2008 with 54
percent. No Republican presidential nominee has carried the state since
1988.
Romney appeared with former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, a
possible running mate, who told the crowd, “Mitt Romney’s message is: It
will be better.’’
The tour is intended to challenge Obama in states where he is strong.
Romney is targeting smaller cities and towns through the state’s more
conservative midsection.
Romney is on a bus tour, but he planned to fly each night to the next
state and ride from town to town during the day.
So it's not a real bus tour. This guy.... sigh.
It is his first
traditional campaign swing since the primary and is aimed at undecided
voters in six pivotal states won by Obama four years ago: New Hampshire,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa.
The tour represents a new mode for Romney in the general election.
During the primary, Romney sometimes ran into trouble in less-scripted
environments, and the bus tour probably will test him again. He has also
long faced questions about his ability to connect with average people....
I don't care about him "connecting" with me, I care about the abysmal policies.
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