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...Still, ever mindful of downplaying expectations, the Obama campaign is quick to stress that Ohio has been an uphill fight for them. "Two months ago we were down by 20 points here," said Ben LaBolt, Obama's Ohio spokesman. "And we're still behind in the polls. This was always going to be a tough state for us." Indeed, not only does Obama still trail the New York Senator by 4 percentage points, according to a Real Clear Politics average of Ohio polls, but amongst union voters he trails her 56% to 34% in the latest Cleveland Plain Dealer poll...
...Clinton campaign seized on media reports that Obama's senior economic adviser had privately told Canadian consular officials not to take the candidate's anti-NAFTA rhetoric all that seriously. At a news conference Monday morning, Clinton said "I don't think people should come to Ohio and tell the people of Ohio one thing and then have your campaign tell a foreign government something else behind closed doors." After its adviser claimed his conversation had been misconstrued by Canadian officials, the Obama campaign fired back against Clinton, saying that she "knows full well that she's not telling...
...Still, it's not clear how much all the shouting back and forth will change Ohio voters' notions about the candidates' positions on trade. Leaving his shift as a driver for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mike DiCillo stopped to chat with fellow Teamsters campaigning for Obama outside the newspaper's gates, one of hundreds of so-called worksite visits the union is doing daily across Ohio. DiCillo, 47, is planning to vote for Obama on Tuesday, in large part because of Bill Clinton. "The Teamsters endorsed Bill Clinton and then he gave us NAFTA," said the 22-year union member...
...wasn't until Super Tuesday, in Georgia and his home state of Illinois, that Obama started to win the union vote. Since then, though, he's won labor in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. And, in a resounding victory that could presage a come-from-behind win in Ohio, Obama won Wisconsin 58% to Clinton's 41%, evenly splitting the union vote in a state where a third of Democratic primary voters come from union households; by contrast, 44% of Ohio Democratic voters come from union households...
...would be hard to overstate the stakes for Hillary Clinton in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday. Prominent Democrats are publicly calling for her to get out of the race if she does not do well, and her own husband has said she must win both to survive (though the campaign has of late been saying that Clinton has to win just one of the two big states). But if she can pull it out, she gets what her own advisers describe as a chance to "reboot" her foundering campaign - and six weeks before the next big contest in Pennsylvania...