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...Democrats an opening. Still, it is seen as Republican territory. Sarah Palin chose Northwest Ohio's Bowling Green University last week to roll out new accusations of Obama's links to radicals. Expect more such red meat appeals to the base. Meanwhile, in an effort to expand past his Toledo stronghold, Obama sent Joe Biden and Bill Clinton to rallies in factory towns like Lima and Marion in recent days. Result, says Rademacher: "Northwest Ohio is just too close to call...
...favor McCain by a 14-point margin, 56% to 42%. Just a week earlier, Obama was 10 points behind with this group. Joe Wurzelbacher (a.k.a. Joe the Plumber), who has come to represent something of a mascot or rallying cry for the McCain campaign, hails from a suburb of Toledo, Ohio...
Meanwhile, Obama had actually cooked up some new economic proposals, which he unveiled in Toledo, Ohio, in his unhurried way. Why hurry when the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll has you ahead by 10 points and your favorability rating on the rise? Obama didn't have to wait for anyone to hand him a baton. He just set off two years ago at a steady pace and has run his own race ever since...
...economic reality. Of course, you don't have to go far to see the face of America's current economic troubles: cross the state line into Ohio, which has a far greater exposure to the American auto industry, and the pain is palpable in industrial shops in Finley and Toledo. They don't have to be told that we're heading for a slowdown; they're already in one. But if Pittsburgh is any indication, there is virtue to going through hard times. The hard part is that it might take a decade to realize...
Ohio Marcy Kaptur, Democratic Congresswoman from Toledo, says the crisis "is as big as it gets. I haven't seen this kind of reaction from constituents since the [savings and loan] crisis of the 1980s. I am getting thousands of letters, phone calls, e-mails and faxes. A handful of them support some kind of bailout. But the overwhelming majority is against it." She cites one letter as representative of the bile poured forth against the bailout: "I live on $23,000 a year. Why should I be asked to bail out a bunch of overpaid greedy heads of companies...