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Listening to undecided voters in Ohio

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    What's shaping the race in the Buckeye State?

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Panel thank you.

The man on the Republican presidential ticket will take a bus tour of Ohio next week no Republican has ever won the White House without Ohio in his win column.

Tonight correspondent Mike Tobin listens to undecided voters in the Buckeye State.

A -- just seems very important.

I don't really know -- Important because John F.

Kennedy was the last to lose Ohio and win the presidency.

With conservatives and liberals firmly entrenched emphasis falls to that small percentage of undecided voters to award Ohio's eighteen electoral votes.

The political analyst Rick Robinson says most undecided voters fall into a narrow demographic.

35 and under earning less than 75000 dollars a year predominantly female and concentrated in Cincinnati.

So -- courted aggressively on the airwaves and campaign motorcades have become a frequent site I know a lot of folks around here right now.

I've heard them say that if they if they get held up on traffic by -- DTL going back out to the airport one more time -- tell you their vote.

-- Rust Belt state like Ohio issues related to manufacturing jobs are of key importance to voters.

Put emphasis placed on the auto bailout by the Obama campaign falls flat.

I'll forward the bailout happened at fault that it won't be.

That's a savings for the jobs.

But it didn't really -- pan out that way in fact 233000.

Jobs have disappeared from the Buckeye State since 2008.

Although the current unemployment rate is around a point lower than the national average.

We -- -- cigarette a jobs fair in Cincinnati.

She voted for President Obama last election but is disillusioned because she's been out of work for more than a year.

At the same time she's turned off like that Romney's recent choice of words I mean to say that just because -- pay taxes last year because I was out of work as sad and taking care of my children.

Doesn't mean that I'm not important foreign policy is playing a role in Ohio Republican -- suggests the Obama administration did not stand up to China and sacrificed jobs.

Allen Warner is unsatisfied with the president's handling of the anti US riots in the Middle East it's been a fairly muted response.

I think it needs to get firmer response -- I don't think that it needs to be in extreme response.

In addition to winning the undecided vote the Romney campaign thinks he can win Democrats in the east and southeast parts of the state.

That's coal country in -- campaign is emphasizing the president's green agenda saying it's unfriendly to -- jobs.

-- I tell them in Columbus my.

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