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Mitt Romney issues Ohio challenge to President Obama | cleveland.com:

One of Obama's greatest challenges in this election is that, for the first time in his life, he's actually going to have a real opponent. Obama won elections by having primary challengers removed from the ballot and using divorce records to discredit his opponent and to get the Republican candidate to drop out. McCain ran a pathetic campaign that refused to say anything bad or negative about Obama (for example, that he ATE A DOG) and was stunned that the media that loved him when he was a maverick turned on him when he ran against a Democrat. Obama, when he is not using a teleprompter, is good for at least three 'uh' per sentence and is amazingly thin-skinned. His campaign won't drop the Romney dog 'issue' and keeps reintroducing it time and time again because he simply can't accept anything he has ever done is less than awe-inspiring.

Obama really needs people to ignore the horrible economy and the jobless rate and the way he is making us weaker internationally and focus on anything bad he can think of about a man who's:

• an expert on turning around economies and 
• was a moderate governor in one of the most liberal states in the country and 
• sober and not cheating on his wife and
• not a fanatic on social issues and 
• has spent almost six years running for president, only losing to the man the media backed
• is far more moderate than Obama, who was more to the left than the only member of Congress to declare himself a socialist.

Romney isn't falling into the trap of defining himself by whatever Obama says he is. Romney is pushing for the conversation to be about the failed economic policies of Obama. Obama wants to run against social conservatives in Congress when the Republican party hasn't been less socially conservative and more fiscally conservative... ever. The 'war on women' thing Obama is pushing is to cover up that Republicans don't really care about abortion any more. While the population is getting (slightly) more pro-life, everyone not on the left seems to agree that abortion isn't important when people are not working and Washington is spending us into extinction. It really IS the economy and neither the Republican party nor the public really want to talk about immigration (more illegal immigrants are leaving the US than are coming in; they are deporting themselves) or racism (a black man is running for re-election to the presidency) or sexism (actual sexism is illegal, more women graduate from college than men and I've already talked about abortion). Romney's temperament is too polite and even-keeled to make him look racist by attacking Obama harshly and Romney's whole tone is 'Obama tried but his policies are wrong and don't work,' not 'Obama is a commie muslim terrorist who wasn't born in the US!' I really thing Obama is going to lose this election. More, please!

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