Obama courts voters in battleground states

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-- April.

But the two man likely to be on the top of the tickets in November are already looking ahead to summer and the fall.

President Obama is appearing right now to fund raiser in Michigan.

Senior White House foreign affairs correspondent Wendell Goler reports it's the back end of -- day trip that saw him show up in a very familiar place.

Acted politically important Ohio for the twentieth time since taking office.

President Obama -- community college students Republican budget cuts would hit them hard if these cuts are spread out evenly.

Than ten million college students including some -- Would see your financial rate cut by an average of more than a thousand dollars and in the area in northern Ohio has been losing people since losing several auto plants in the 1970s and eighties.

Mr.

Obama held a roundtable with unemployed workers -- -- job retraining programs.

Republicans say his criticisms unfair because they haven't decided what the budget cuts will be.

Mr.

Obama says that's no accident because they -- folks -- like it.

But if you if you've got to cut a certain amount of money.

You and they've already said they're not gonna cut defense spending.

And -- wrong -- tax cuts.

But you gotta go.

To all the other stuff that's left over back in Washington Republicans attack the president's spending in the Democrat controlled senate.

Full refusing once again to pass a budget.

Washington's been spending more than a trillion dollars -- hear more than it takes.

And some of the senate Democrats don't even have the courage to put it all and block and wife.

Republicans say the senate -- shelved thirty bills sent over from the house.

Majority leader Harry Reid suggest each of both -- reflects opposition to mr.

Obama and fear the Tea Party.

In one poll this month Republicans believe Ohio's their most important state this year and they feel the president's trip -- more political than anything else.

Our president checked out left Labor -- He spent the last six months campaigning from one end of the country to the other.

In fact mr.

Obama's last stop of the day was a fund raiser at the Henry Ford museum outside Detroit.

Which is where Mitt Romney launched his first bid for the presidency in the 2008 campaign.

The Obama campaign says the president wasn't talking about it's likely opponents wealth and Ohio but some people believe they saw a reference in a line about student aid.

I want born with a silver spoon in my mind.

Michelle wasn't.

But somebody give -- chance.

-- following in mr.

Obama's footsteps headed Thursday to the Ohio county where the president spoke today.

Visiting a factory that shut down weeks after mr.

Obama campaign there in 2008 promising to create jobs.

-- of a lot of north -- one.

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