Mitt Romney's Show Of Middle-Class Compassion Leaves Ohio Voters Unconvinced

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"With 26 days before the election, the task facing Romney is in exuding a compassion that comes across as genuine and not simply a last-minute effort to woo voters. Polls after the debate show he did just that, getting a bump as well as sharp improvements in his favorability rating. But in state polls, the bump has been smaller.

"Ohio in particular has proved stubborn for the Republican nominee. Interviews with people around the Dayton area after the Denver debate show why.

"Billy Barker, a brick mason from Cleveland who has no party affiliation, is on a 10-minute break from a construction project in the parking lot outside of the Dayton Mall when he says he’s decided to vote for Obama.

“I just feel that he’s more for the middle class and he’s keeping things down to earth,” Barker says, as he deposits $1.25 into a vending machine for a bag of potato chips at what for most people would be lunch hour. “I’m worried about where Mitt Romney’s change is going to go.”

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Romney's 47 percent comments remain a huge hinderance for his Ohio comeback. Of 50 people surveyed across Dayton, 48 told The Huffington Post they had either seen or heard the tape of Romney describing nearly half of Americans as government-dependent “victims” who will vote for Obama because they “believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it." Only one woman, a Romney supporter, said she agreed with the GOP nominee’s remarks.

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