if you have not taught to every one of your family members go down in code and do it right, everybody at church and worked at a barbershop and wherever else you run across people, make sure that people get out and vote and return our country to sanity. that is what this is all about. >> ♪ our only foundation should be our constitution >> i had people talk to me a couple of weeks ago. they begged us to come here to support john rasese for u.s. senate. [applause] we added this to our tour, and we are here today to support aese.r

>> we have been all 55 counties in west virginia and talking about how we despise cap and trade. how we're going to repeal obama care real quick. [applause] the only stimulus i know it's hard work. how this country was made, it was made on free enterprise, hard work, and the value of the american dollar. we will bring all three to the forefront very quickly. thank you. we had a very special guest today with us. do you know who it is? >> yes! >> i gave it away, didn't i? [laughter] this to me as a great honor. i have with us today the 2008

vice-presidential candidates. [applause] but the other and the best governor that alaska ever had, and we hope to see her real soon in 2012 -- sarah palin. [applause] >> hello, west virginia! is so good to get to be here. that winning feeling, it feels good. the election, november 2nd when things are finally going to be turned around in this country. i attribute this change to tea party americans. it is you who have made this message loud and clear. both parties now, they have to rethink the way they are doing business.

knowing that they are going to be held accountable today, because the americans say, enough is enough. no more business as usual. >> hello, my fellow patriots. i am not an african-american. i am with marcus, american! i have a message for mr. obama. your policies have failed completely. you are fired. just a socialistic scheme the only thing it will do is kill the american dream redistributed those folks sitting down and an easy chair

if you love america, you members -- you are members of my band ♪ >> it has been a great day out here. a lot of people have said douglas the country. let's sing it. not bless the usa ♪ >> c-span's local content vehicles on the road covering the final days leading up to

tuesday's midterm elections. an update on the alaska senate race. abc news reports that gop leaders are switching support from joe miller to incumbent and right in canada at least a murkowski. mr. miller's approval ratings have been falling since he admitted lying about using computers for political purposes. -- hundreds of right in canada's have flooded the list in the last few hours. scott mcadams could win if too many right in ballots for lease of murkowski are tossed out. >> in addition to all of this season's campaign coverage, there is lot more at the c-span video library, including nonfiction authors, the american

story from american history tv, and everything we have. since 1987, all three an index that the c-span video library. >> it is time to get your camera rolling for this year's studentcam. make a five-eight minute video on this year's theme, washington, d.c. through mine lenses. you could win the grand prize of $5,000. for complete details, go to studentcam.org. >> our political coverage continues with president obama at a rally in ohio for democratic candidates. after that, a georgia governor's debate with roy barnes, nathan deal, and john monds. later, a california senate debate with barbara boxer and republican carly the arena. -- fiorina.

in a few moments was show president obama campaigning in ohio. this will include remarks from ted strickland. first, let it how he began his day -- at a local chicago diner. >> what is that? i feel great. we got a good turnout. turnout is so important. lots of enthusiasm. the other side is enthusiastic and we have to make sure ours is, too. we've got bacon, pancakes. we got to get this to go.

friend in ohio i have to help out. a lot of hard workers. [applause] [unintelligible] we're going to come around. we're going to come around and make it. we will get going straight. how are you? good to see you again. [unintelligible] >> how are you? >> great to be home in good to see you again. [unintelligible] are we good?

give me the bill. we have got it. no, i have got to pay. there you go. these guys have been working incredibly hard. i think that when the thugs in illinois see -- when the votes in illinois see -- folks in illinois see, that is what they want, somebody on their side.

college, and to we're working tirelessly to make that happen. good to see you again. let's get a picture with the staff. c'mon, c'mon. all right. [unintelligible] thank you, guys.

[unintelligible] >> scrambled eggs right here, sir. [applause] ♪ >> hello, cleveland. hello, cleveland. [applause] you are beautiful. you are ohio. this wonderful state we love, this state that is a microcosm of america.

if you were to shrink america, you would end up with ohio. [applause] and in ohio, what do we want. [unintelligible] let me make a suggestion. [laughter] we want health care for our people. [applause] we want jobs for our working families. we want equality -- a quality education for our children. we want affordable college for our young people. in ohio, we are grateful to the president and vice-president and

senator sherrod brown and our democratic friends in the house of representatives. save the american auto industry. savings thousands of jobs in ohio. we are grateful for resources the came to us so that we could hold down the cost of college tuition. we are grateful for resources we got so that we could educate our kids in quality schools. this is what has happened in ohio during this difficult recession. we have invested in education and we have competed and won $400 million in race to the top funds. we have competed for and won

$400 million to establish passenger rail service, leaking cleveland, columbus, and cincinnati. we have passed an energy bill for renewable standards that is resulting in investment being made and jobs being created in ohio in the area of advanced energy. ohio is on the move. we have the sixth fastest- growing economy in america. our unemployment has gone down every month for six consecutive months. we must not, we cannot, we will not turn back! and so what few more hours --

and on september -- november! [laughter] november 2, when all the votes have been counted, ohio will remain a blue states. [applause] now let me tell you a secret. jon casey and mary taylor -- ]booing they won the election in august. but ted strickland will win it in november when it really counts. [applause] are you with us?

will you work? will you believe? will you vote? will you secure ohio and our common future? make you for that. -- thank you for that. now it is my great privilege -- hear me out. i want you to hear these words that i and when to say. -- i am going to say. we have with us today the leaders of our nation. [applause] and you will hear from the vice- president and you will hear from the president. [applause]

a few hours before this critical election, the vice-president and the president of the united states have come to cleveland, to ohio. and we are grateful. the vice president has traveled this nation and he has been to ohio many times. he is working his heart out, with the president, to rebuild this nation, to get this economy back on track, to create jobs for our people, to make sure that every american has access to health care. and here in ohio, we remember our friends. and so my friends, it is my pleasure to present to you the vice-president of the united states of america, joe biden. [applause]

♪ risingme on up for the na na na na na ♪ ♪ >> hello, cleveland. how're you doing, ladies? great to see you all. man, i won i go up when you -- i will look like you when i grew up.

hey, folks. great to be with you. it is really good to be back in ohio with the best governor in the united states of america, ted strickland. [applause] ted and i are raise the same way, real easy. stick with them that brung you to the dance. [laughter] they brought us to this dance, and ted and me were here for both of you. back where i come from, cleveland is the kind of place on a much smaller scale like where i came from. ladies and gentlemen, it is the kind of people who are the backbone of this country. the kind of people who are straight forward, work hard, played by the rules, and expect the other guy to play by the

rules. [applause] it is a state that because of gov. strickling's leadership in columbus, a state that is on the march again. [applause] a state that has reestablished itself as the global club for research and manufacturing. like they used to be before the republicans took hold. all we need now is to keep this momentum going and there is only one way to do that. all of you that are here, you're the same faults that made sure that iraq and i get to be on the stage today. -- you are the same folks that may serve brock -- made sure barack and i got to be on the states today.

if jon casey were to win this, i promise you the governor's mansion is going to be a very different place, and his momentum that ted has not going will come to a screeching halt. and that is no exaggeration. casey wants to do what he has already done. they have a whole different view of how real folks live. ladies and gentlemen, these guys want to continue to give tax breaks to companies who send their jobs to china. [booing] this is not just political theater. they do not think that we should be given tax credits for renewable energies of the week and make the windmills and solar palps -- panels right here in ohio. they do not think we should

provide that tax breaks to middle-class families to help send their kids to this great university. they do not -- literally, that is what we're doing. they do not even want to make the middle class tax cuts permanent. unless we provide $700 billion of tax cuts to their wealthy friends, increasing the burden. these guys have a different view. a lot of folks here have been knocked down pretty hard by the economic policies report -- supported by our republican friends. a lot of folks have been hurt. let me tell you com these folkse tough. folks do not stay down. i believe you believe like i was

raised -- my dad used to say, when you get knocked down, there's only one thing to do -- get up. get up. and folks, when you get up, make sure the same thing does not not you down again. folks, we are getting up. we're going to make sure the bankrupt policies of the republican party do not not is down again. we are getting up and staying up things to the leadership of president obama, and because of this great governor, ted strickland. we are starting to get out of this got awful mess the republican party leftists and, we're making jobs, we're making college affordable once again, we are revving up america's research energy, finding cures for diseases, we're working to uphold that distinctly american

promise, that the next generation will have a better than we had it, that we will leave our children and our grandchildren better off than what we inherited. mr. president, it is because of you. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my partner, the president of the united states of america, barack obama. [applause] ♪ ♪

>> hello, cleveland. [applause] hello, cleveland. thank you. are you fired up? [applause] it is good to be back in cleveland, good to be back in ohio. and it is great to be with a crop that was like it is fired up and ready to go. [applause] a few people i want to just thank, because they are doing outstanding work each and every day. the cleveland mayor, frank jackson, thank you so much.

thank you, frank. attorney -- my dear friend, the attorney general. kevin boyd. some of the finest members of congress that we have come s -- sherrod brown is in the house. congressman dennis the senate. -- kucinich. congresswoman eddie sutton. one of my favorite members of congress, who could not be here because he just had a baby yesterday -- his wife had a baby. [laughter] he is an outstanding young man and we expect to send him back to congress.

the new baby girl was named emma, by the way. i want to thank the president here at cleveland state university. i want to thank the wonderful performance. [applause] i when i thank congresswoman eddie sutton, who is in the house, i believe. is she here? where is betty? and most of all, folks who are going to be leading ohio for many years to come. lt. gov. lee fisher. and one of the finest governors

in this country, ted strickland. and first lady frances strickland. we are here for lee and all the members of the congressional delegation. [unintelligible] marcia fudge, of course. is marcia here? we love marcia, i love marcia. that is my girl. [applause] we were acknowledging those folks that were in the crowd. marcia is going to do a great job.

but joe biden and diei have been traveling all across the country. there are a lot of places where we're doing a lot of great work. but there are very few places where we are doing as much good work as we were doing right here in ohio. and cleveland, in just tw of days, you've got the chance -- >> yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! >> i cannot hear you.