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...rival, Barack Obama, is much more dubious: "Now, if we're honest with ourselves, we know that some of the changes in our economy can't be reversed," Obama hours later told a crowd in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. "The swift and strong currents of globalization can't be stopped...
...Pennsylvania has lost more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs since George W. Bush took office, and as Obama and Clinton vie for votes ahead of the April 22 primary, the question of how they will create new jobs, or bring back old ones, comes up at nearly every event. On the surface the two candidates appear to be offering very different remedies, but their actual plans are virtually identical: both candidates bank on adding millions of new jobs with the help of emerging green and renewable industries coupled with large investments in infrastructure. It's in the 10-second sound...
...this union-heavy state show Clinton has been, so far, winning that message war, but Obama - who has spent the last six days traversing the state - is rapidly catching up. She leads Obama by 6 percentage points, down from 17 points earlier this week, according to an average of Pennsylvania polls by Real Clear Politics, a non-partisan website that tracks the election. Yet the latest Survey USA poll shows Clinton leading Obama 71% to 23% in the state's union-dense northeastern Rust Belt - the only region where she gained ground in that poll...
...massive corrugated frame. "A lot of big facilities like U.S. Steel and others have shut down or dramatically cut back, and we've lost a lot of jobs," Clinton told the crowd. "And so what we see here is a perfect example of the people of Bucks County, of Pennsylvania, rolling up their sleeves and getting to work, because in life lots of times you can't control what happens...
...next day, addressing a gathering of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Obama cited the same facility as the first of the next generation of American ingenuity. "We're going to transform shuttered steel mills to make windmills, plants that have closed will make solar panels," he said. "These kinds of jobs are bringing new life back to places that have been hard hit in recent decades - places like Fairless Hills in Bucks County, where the old U.S. Steel plant is now being used to make wind turbines...