all right. now raise your hand if you've ever worked or work at republic steel. all right. now i want you to raise your hand if you still work at either of those places. one guy. lee simons was recently forced to retired when republic steel shut down operations. shedding 200 jobs. >> when i grew up, i thought it was a place that was going to be there forever. when i personally started in the plant, we had 8,300 people working. >> went from manufacturing to dollar stores. that's the job, dollar stores. >> driving through this town of 64,000 people, it's hard to miss the number of dollar stores. >> at the height of it, lorain was growing fast. and the future looked bright for them. >> when we came to the american legion hall in the lorain and sat down, all of whom voted for barack obama in 2008 and six out seven of them voted for the