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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Ohio stands with the candidate who saved the auto industry
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This election is personal for so many families in Ohio.

RoseMarie, who lives in Middleburg Heights, tells a story that resonates across the state: "This year, it's very, very meaningful to me emotionally—because he saved my daughter's job." RoseMarie's daughter, a single mother supporting three children, has worked for General Motors for 15 years here in Ohio. Three years ago, when the American auto industry was on the very brink of collapse and Mitt Romney was telling anyone who would listen that we should "let Detroit go bankrupt," President Obama made the tough call to lend Detroit a hand. That decision—politically unpopular at the time—saved nearly 850,000 jobs in Ohio alone.

"He saved so many jobs here," says RoseMarie. "People don't realize that the auto industry carries so many people. It just domino-effects—to people making gloves or the wax on the factory floor, to people working in the cafeterias and restaurants. So many people in the industry are grateful to be working today, my daughter especially."

Today, RoseMarie's entire family is campaigning for President Obama—even her seven-year-old grandson, who wears Obama buttons on his UAW T-shirt. If you ask, he will tell you he likes President Obama "because he saved my mom's job."

So, on behalf of three generations of her family, RoseMarie is committed to doing whatever it takes here in Cuyahoga County to deliver a "strong, strong, strong Ohio" for the President.

"I think we're going to win this election," she says, "and there's going to be nobody happier than my little family."

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

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For all

Jackie from Lorain, Ohio, voted early—in fact, she was so excited to cast her ballot for President Obama, she arrived before the polls even opened. Pointing to the "for all" button she wore to today's Gotta Vote event, Jackie says she supports the President because he doesn't divide people into 47 percent and the 53 percent.

"Mitt Romney is just so far away from the people like me. President Obama represents everybody. I was fortunate to be able to see him at Kent State, and I don't think he was politicking when he said, for those people who don't support him, who are against him, 'I'll be your president too.' Not 'their' president, like he's separating people. We're all in this together. He's for everybody, and I just appreciate how hard he works for all of us."

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Today’s decision is a victory for Pennsylvania voters

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Will Crossley, DNC Counsel & Director of Voter Protection

Today, we achieved another significant victory in our historic efforts to protect the right to vote when a Pennsylvania judge blocked implementation of the state’s restrictive voter ID law for this year’s presidential election.

Phone banking in Iowa City

Women's activist Sandra Fluke and actor Tate Donovan popped into an OFA Iowa phone bank in Iowa City tonight and made calls to University of Iowa students, asking them to cast their ballots early. Early voting in Iowa—the first in the country—began last Thursday.

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