outcome, ohio. where the candidates spoke speaks volumes in the battleground. in northeast ohio, blue from 2008, cuyahoga county, democrats must dominate to win close races statewide. mitt romney was here, hamilton county, where cincinnati is in the southwest corner. pivotal for republicans in close statewide races. may notice president obama carried that area or part of it in 2008. republican challenger hopes to look at the last three plus years, convinces voters not to give the incumbent four more. look at what we re talking about. look at the past three plus years, governor romney would make this case. unemployment rate when the president took office, 7.8. where is it now? 8.2%. same time frame, again, the nation lost, there s the math, more than 600,000 manufacturing jobs. my experience in thinking about people who i want to have work for me, whether my doctor or the person that is painting the house, i want them to do a good job the first time, and if they didn t, i wa
security question there, mr. romney. the battle over the women s vote has played out in the senate. republicans blocked a democratic bill calling for equal pay in the workplace. the outcome of the vote was never in doubt in all of this, but it did give both sides the chance to appeal to their bases. democrats who pointed out women make 77 cents for every $1 made by a man. and republicans who, of course, have been fending off claims of a so-called war on women said the new law would have hurt the nation s small businesses. jury selection should finish up today in the jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal. sandusky was in the pennsylvania courtroom as the first nine jurors were seated. abc news has learned that victim number four, a man who is now 28 years old, he is set to appear as the first witness against sandusky. expected to testify about expensive gifts he claim he s received from sandusky and never before revealed love letters allegedly written by sandusky described as creep
written in sandusky s own hand. there s other evidence which has not been, you know, released to the public yet which, i believe, you know, will really resonate with the jury. reporter: andreozzi won t detail what s in the letters, but sources characterize them as creepy and tell abc news one is written in the third person. a love story about a boy and a man with a lewd title. for the defense, it s extremely damaging. reporter: sandusky acknowledges showering with the boys and hugging them, but in this new york times interview denies sexual contact. if i say, no, i m not attracted to boys, that s not the truth because i am attracted to young people, boys, girls. reporter: sandusky s attorney promises a hard-fought defense poking holes in the victims stories one by one. it really is just going to be, what did he intend? reporter: and now another issue.
about never before revealed love letters allegedly written by sandusky described as creepy. abc s diana perez has more on jury selection in the case set to resume today in pennsylvania. reporter: on day one of jury selection, jerry sandusky simply flashed a smile and said hello as he arrived to the courthouse. the 68-year-old is charged with 52 counts of sexual abuse against ten young boys over a period of 15 years. many of whom met sandusky at his at-risk youth charity called second mile. they claim the alleged abuse happened at his home, on the road or at penn state s athletic facilities. in court, the judge asked potential jurors if they had any connection to the school, the former assistant football coach or his charity. individually they were shown a list of possible witnesses. among them, the wife and son of former penn state football coach joe paterno. and mike mcqueary who testified that he heard what he thought
his parents. there are burn marks over his body, scars, signs of beatings, genitals are mutilated. this is a 13-year-old boy, taken off the streets, held for over a month, defiled, and dumped on his justify fibly and terrorizes family. i want you to hear what bashar al assad said when asked by abc s news s barbara wallers about hamza. a portion of the interview airing today on good morning america . you have seen these pictures, have you not? no, but i is this news to you? no, no, it s not news. i met with his father, with the father of that child. and he said that he wasn t tortured. he s saying in so many words, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? a pathologist attributed this to ordinary decomposition, as if decomposition leaves burns and scars and castration. as for assad s claim that hamza s father told him that his son hasn t been tortured, what would you say when a dictator who commands an army of torturers asks you that? according to al-j