Why auto bailout helps Obama (and hurts GOP) in Michigan, Ohio
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Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich have one thing in common, President Obama鈥檚 campaign would like you to know: The GOP candidates didn鈥檛 want the federal government to bail out the American auto industry.
The Obama campaign is hitting the GOP field - and Romney in particular - with an advertisement arguing that 鈥渨hen a million American jobs were on the line, every Republican candidate turned their back鈥� before flashing Romney鈥檚 now-infamously headlined op-ed 鈥�.鈥�
The Michigan GOP primary is five days away and Democrats are getting into the mix in more than just the Obama for America ad spot: Democratic party officials have , even.
But whatever mischief Democrats would do at the ballot box, the advertisement is聽 more interesting. The auto bailout is something on which Michigan voters, according to the most recent polling, give Obama a : 63 percent of registered voters and 42 percent of likely voters support the bailout while 58 percent of voters say Obama deserves a good or great deal of credit for the strength of the auto industry versus 37 percent who say he deserves little or none.
The bottom line: This is a good issue, the polls say, for Obama in Michigan.
While that same poll shows Obama handily defeating both Romney and Santorum in Michigan, it鈥檚 not just Michigan where such an ad could make waves.
As anyone who has driven from Cleveland to Detroit along I-80 knows the prominence of the auto industry in northwest Ohio as well. Ohio, it goes almost without saying, is another important battleground state.
Team Obama smells blood in the water on the auto bailout, it seems, and they are going to get their message into the mix early and often along what might be called the Auto Belt.
As with many things breaking news, your faithful Decoder found this nugget through the Twitter feed of Obama for America deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter:
"OFA's new Made in America tv ad. Romney wanted to let Detroit go bankrupt, President Obama said no & saved 1.4 m jobs.
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