People and Politics by Patrick Roberts

Why Barack Obama is likely to win Ohio? It is the improved economy, stupid -- Unemployment cut by one third as auto companies hire and so do banks

Posted on Monday, October 29, 2012 at 08:17 AM

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Why Ohio is going to vote for Barack Obama

Which state in the union has featured the following employment developments this month?

Chrysler announced they are adding 1,100 new jobs, J.P. Morgan Chase is looking for hundreds of bankers, and the Cleveland Clinic needs so many new nurses they rented out the Cleveland Browns football stadium for a jobs fair.

Yes, indeed, it’s Ohio, and the unemployment rate is just seven percent these days, well below the national average and seemingly ready to go even lower as the above statistics make clear.

Ohio was once the rust belt and a byword for decaying infrastructure but now thanks to the auto bailout and an upbeat economic forecast, the populace are set to vote for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney.

There is precedence for this. Back in 1988, Democrat Michael Dukakis won several farm states like Iowa which he had no right to win after farm states made clear how much they blamed the Reagan administration and Dukakis opponent V.P. George Bush for the farming prices slump.

Similarly, Obama has stayed ahead in Ohio despite every effort by the Romney camp to undermine that lead-- it truly is the economy stupid.

“We’re doing great,” says Rich DeVore, 47, president of a United Autoworkers Union local in Perrysburg, on the outskirts of Toledo told Bloomberg News. “You see a lot of great things happening.”

Put simply, unemployment has dropped by one third and Ohio looks like it will continue to support Obama as a result.

It may well put him in the White House.

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pilib04 | Oct 29, 2012, 08:42 PM EDT

Kasuck tried end collective bargaining for nurses, firefighters, police and teachers. More people voted against Issue 2 last year than voted for Kasuck two years earlier.

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pilib04 | Oct 29, 2012, 08:40 PM EDT

Obama carried Ohio by a 4.5% or about 300,000 votes the first time. Since then he has saved our Auto Industry. Ohio is truly grateful. Libertarian got 3% and will get the same this time around.

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faberm1 | Oct 29, 2012, 08:23 PM EDT

I wish Irish Central would limit itself to commenting on Irish politics. You guys are clueless as to how 55% of Americans believe. Get a clue and listen.

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Pecos Kid | Oct 29, 2012, 04:31 PM EDT

Obama responsible for the improvement in Ohio? You've got to be kidding me. If anyone gets the credit it' s our Govenor John Kasich. Our state was billions in debt, business was running from our state because of high taxes & over regulation. He has changed all that. And as a gov. worker myself, we would be even better if issue 2 WAS passed.

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jerrydonovan | Oct 29, 2012, 11:25 AM EDT

BrianO, you seldom see OUR GOVERNOR,after having his butt kicked over proposition2 he clearly did not want to be involved in a rerun.

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BrianO | Oct 29, 2012, 10:01 AM EDT

Who is the govenor of Ohio?

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