auto industry. about one in eight folks in ohio have a job somewhat tied to the auto industry. bailout huge for president obama, the old op-ed said let detroit go bankrupt, coming back to haunt him over and over. and neither of the candidates has a demographic lock on ohio. they have trouble with white working-class voters. predominant voter in ohio. both are struggling to make the connection and close the deal. and there s a good chance that the buckeye state is going to be a bit of a bear. we may not know the results until november 16 at the earliest. but in terms of moving on, a lot of people are going to be talking about the president s comments to rolling stone magazine in which he said in reference to romney and i have to clean it up a little bit. they look at the other guy and say, well, that s a bull crapper i can tell. and that was in response to an editor editor s child who wanted to replay to the
about one in eight folks in ohio have a job somewhat tied to the auto industry. bailout huge for president obama, the old op-ed said let detroit go bankrupt, coming back to haunt him over and over. and neither of the candidates has a demographic lock on ohio. they have trouble with white working class voters, predominant voter in ohio. both are struggling to make the connection. and there s a good chance that the buckeye state is going to be a bit of a bear. we may not know the results until november 16 at the earliest. but in terms of moving on, a lot of people are going to be talking about the president s comments to rolling stone magazine in which he said in reference to romney, i have to clean it up. they look at the other guy and say that is a bull crapper i can
i went to the ohio state university, and i was there this summer talking to people. and it s pretty strong for obama. and that was over the summer because people started feeling that they advertise the let detroit go bankrupt. i think mitt romney s fatal mistake is that op-ed piece, whether you read it and say it made sense, that stuck badly in places like toledo where chrysler is now making, you know, jeep wranglers and firemen and policemen were able to continue getting jobs. i m just looking at a portion in your piece, paul nitze, the policy guru of the truman administration once told me that the problem with historians like myself is that we re always hunting for documents to analyze. what our ilg tends to forget is that inaction is also policy. and there is some criteria in which this president this applies to, this concept. i put that in the piece only because inaction i mean, what
magazine had the president up five and one point away from 50. mitt romney s never cracked the code in ohio and he s never going to. i mean, this is a state that the republican governor there has said has recovered economically. he can t say that without attributing some of that success to the president. it s a state where mitt romney suffers in the north because he said let detroit go bankrupt and he s in there trying to convince people that he didn t say that when he did. it s not going to resonate. ohio s going to be in the president s column because ohio has moved forward under the president s leadership. what do you think it s going to come down to because they re certainly not giving up? we ve seen how often mitt romney has been there and so has the president. he s got three visits this week, more ad spending this week than in any other state. what are you looking at? what will be the key there? is it suburban women voters? i think it will be a few things. one, i think it wil
president obama has to tell his base is look at the things i didn t let happen, meaning i m defending i m defending roe versus wade, we re not drilling in the arctic. medicaid and medicare is not going to become stop the recession from hemorrhaging. stopped the recession. it s a hard that s a hard sell, though. it s a hard sell, and i don t think it s the main sell, but it is one that i think is part of the president s arsenal. let me ask you a question. you said words that will plague romney are let detroit go bankrupt. another one that s going to plague romney is self-deport. you have a huge swath of hispanic voters that are just not going to vote for romney. and it really comes down to turnout. you re an historian on this. has there ever been that much of a disparity like that between, you know, minority groups and white voters? not when it s literally 100% of the african-american vote for barack obama, 0% for romney. but the latino vote is crucial