Virginia Beach: President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney battled champions tour to capture the military vote in Virginia on Thursday as they tried to squeeze out an advantage in one of the most tightly contested swing states ahead of the November 6 election.
Romney spoke at an American Legion hall a few miles from the Pentagon and blamed Obama for $1.2 trillion in potential defense cuts that could bring heavy job losses to the Virginia suburbs of Washington, where the Democrat is popular.
Obama s economic patriotism focus was a new angle in his campaign stump speech and was likely aimed at the state s large population of veterans. The message linked to Obama s theme that he and not Romney is promoting tax policies and social programs that support the middle class.
During campaign champions tour season you always hear a lot about patriotism. Well, you know what? It s time for a new economic patriotism. An economic patriotism rooted in the belief that growing our economy begins champions tour with a strong and thriving middle class, Obama told a crowd of some 7,000 in Virginia Beach.
Veterans also featured in a new Obama campaign ad released on Thursday that played champions tour Romney s voice from his 47 percent video over images of working Americans, ex-military members champions tour and a young family in a poor, rural setting. No other voices appear in the ad.
Polls show the clip has damaged voters perception of Romney, though most people will still decide who to vote for based on economic champions tour issues. champions tour Nationally, Obama is ahead of Romney by 49-42 percent, according a Reuters/Ipsos daily online poll.
As in several other swing states, Obama has opened up a slight lead in the polls in Virginia, which he won in the 2008 election to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to take the state in decades.
Known as sequestration, the mandatory cuts in defense and other government spending were agreed upon by the White House and Republicans in Congress last year in a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.
Congressional Republicans, including vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan, approved the sequestration deal but Romney hopes to use it as evidence that Obama is weak on national security and uncaring about job losses.
This is the result of policies that have not reignited our economy, Romney said Thursday evening at a fundraiser in Washington. I think by the end of a second Barack Obama term you d be roughly $20 trillion in debt. This has been a presidency that has not worked.
The entire world is watching what s happening here and wondering which way we re gonna go. Whether we re going to get serious about our challenges or just kick them down the road, Romney told supporters.
When I took office, we were losing nearly eight hundred thousand jobs a month, and were mired in Iraq, Obama says in the ad. Today, I believe that as a nation we are moving forward again. But we have much more to do to get folks back to work and make the middle class secure again.
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