Friday, July 6, 2012

Ohio ... November's big prize

The head of an Ohio-based political action committee says President Barack Obama's bus tour through Ohio is more evidence of how essential the Buckeye State is in winning the White House.

Obama's two-day, 250-mile "Betting on America" bus tour is taking him through several northern Ohio communities where he received strong support in 2008. The tour also includes stops in western Pennsylvania. Republicans are countering by dispatching Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to some of the same towns along Obama's tour.

Phil Burress is chairman of the Citizens for Community Values Action Political Action Committee. He says the key in November will be for rural, conservative Ohioans to show up in large numbers like they did in 2004 when George W. Bush won the state.

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