"In northern Ohio, Obama ads effectively define Romney" By Michael Finnegan, LA Times

[applegrove]

In northern Ohio, Obama ads effectively define Romney

By Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times

August 3, 2012, 3:00 a.m.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ohio-bain-20120803,0,3214771.story

"SNIP......................................

President Obama's blistering indictment of his Republican challenger's career at the private equity firm has come to define Romney, interviews show, among swing voters here in one of the election's Great Lakes battlegrounds.

Television ads that Obama and his allies have aired on Cleveland stations for weeks have left some wondering how Romney earned up to $250 million at Bain and whether he caused the layoffs of Americans like themselves along the way.

Echoing the Obama ads, they also question why some of Romney's personal fortune wound up in Switzerland, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

"He should just surrender his tax returns and let the people see what he's done," said 50-year-old Kevin Cannon, a Fairview Park grocery store cashier who voted for Republicans George W. Bush and John McCain, but might reluctantly support a second term for Obama.

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[WCGreen]

1. Well, I'm getting sick of the ads but I guess they are effective...

President Obama is polling almost ten points ahead in some polls with no significant movement for Romney except downward.

[applegrove]

2. Yup. Occupy woke people up a little. The Bain ads are waking working white men up

a little bit more. I just hope Obama can sustain the pace at which he is buying ads.