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Columbus
Dispatch
Romney,
Obama covet votes in Ohio
By Joe Vardon and Joe Hallett
Friday October 26, 2012
In
another indicator of just how
close the race for the White House is in Ohio, both President Barack
Obama and
Republican nominee Mitt Romney drew about 12,000 people to evening
rallies at
opposite sides of the state last night.
Romney’s
event inside the Defiance
High School football stadium west of Toledo was his third Ohio rally of
the day
and included crowd-pleasing performances by music legends Meat Loaf and
Randy
Owen of Alabama.
Earlier
at Worthington Industries,
as he spoke hopefully of an ensuing four years in office after Election
Day,
Romney said, “I want you to know how optimistic I am. This is about to
get real
good.”
Meanwhile,
Obama ended his
sleepless, 40-hour, eight-state marathon in Cleveland with a majestic
entrance,
as a smaller version of Air Force One touched down on the Lake
Erie-hugging
runway of Burke Lakefront Airport. With the Boeing 757 parked behind
the dais
as a symbolically powerful backdrop, Obama alighted from it sprightly,
delighting 12,000 cheering supporters crowding the tarmac.
“Ohio,
even though I’ve been going
for about 38 hours straight, even though my voice is getting kind of
hoarse,
I’ve still got a spring in my step because our cause is right, because
we’re
fighting for the future,” Obama said. “I’ve come to Ohio today to ask
you for
your vote.”
Most
recent polling shows a tight
race between Romney and Obama in Ohio — an 18-electoral-vote state
where the
president appears to hold a slight lead and where no Republican has
ever lost
and yet won the White House.
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