destructive anywhere near those buildings or anywhere where the secret service is including rick santorum's rallies. we will follow that. come back for more on that. we will see you tomorrow, on super tuesday. good evening. welcome to a two-hour edition of the war room. keith olbermann will be back tomorrow for three hours of super tuesday coverage. now for those of you who don't know me, i am the former governor of michigan. i am a political junkie just like you. tonight, we are going to take you to ohio, georgia, tennessee, with the latest on the g.o.p. primaries. we have boots on the ground. we have in-depth analysis from our awesome guests tonight. this is the war room. come on inside!

>> tomorrow it's super tuesday, what we have been waiting for all year. contests are going to be held in 10 states. 437 delegates are at stake. let me give you a view of it. some of you have seen this. the two states with the largest delegate counts georgia and ohio. the latest ppp poll out of ohio has mitt romney at 37 and santorum at 36. it is neck and neck. of course, newt gingrich and ron paul bringing up the rear with 15 and 11% respectively. georgia, ppp again, but gingrich has a huge hometown advantage leading the pack. as you can see 47 of the 24%. however, there are some conflicting poll numbers that if you stick around, you will be able to see some of that. santorum and paul of course both third and fourth. this is what the delegate count looks like. a candidate needs 1,144 delegates to win and that's exactly what this shows right

here, but you can see look at romney has 203. tomorrow, as you see, there is over 400. this is not going to be done. according to the associated press, mitt romney has that exact number 203 but all of these contests tomorrow all of them are proportional and that means that none are winner-take-all. so that means no one is going to come away with a clear -- as the clear winner in delegates. no one is going to have a tipping point number. we may see a surprise in momentum if santorum wins ohio if romney wins tennessee. that will be an interesting shake-up tomorrow. romney and santorum chris criss-crossed today. take a license. >> americans always -- he is not a president we can believe in. what we need is a president who

believes in you. i will be that president. you help me out, and we will win a great victory here in ohio. >> the president seems to be comfortable with spending a trillion dollars more every year than we take in. i am going to cut programs and cap federal spending and get us a balanced budget, a very different agenda. >> the latest news from the battleground state of ohio, we will go to boots on the ground to columbus where we find t.v. correspondent, current tv correspondent and fabulous guy, david schuster. what's the latest from ohio? >> governor granholm, good to be with you and here in columbus, you see this as you have seen in all of the primary states so far, mitt romney and the super pac flooding the air waves and he is out spending rick santorum here in the buckeye state perhaps three or four to one. mitt romney's spending in virtually all of the media markets. rick santorum has been advised

by former senator dewine to focus just on cleveland and try to pick up some of the delegates up there in the cleveland suburbs but speaking of delegates -- and this is where santorum has been on his heels for a couple of days. it came out on friday governor that rick santorum did not qualify properly in some of the congressional districts and three of the districts he will not be entitled to any delegates should he win them and then in six more he had incomplete delegates and so, therefore, his possibility of running delegates in those congressional districts has again diminished all out of 66 delegates up for grabs, rick santorum will have 18 that he is not possibly entitled to. so the romney campaign has been hammering him all weekend long saying rick santorum doesn't have the organization that you need in a general election against the obama machine and santorum has had to simply try to explain that away. meanwhile, rick santorum has been on the offensive trying to hit back and mitt romney saying

romney is uniquely unqualified to run against president obama because of romney's healthcare system in massachusetts. the charter is going back and forth. as far as organization, it is all romney. you see that corresponding in the polls. >> well, if he is all about ads, it looks like it's all the same story, the same playbook as was used in michigan, where ads made a huge difference and obviously organization does, too. we will talk about that more at current tv's david shuster -- david, thanks so much for joining us. now for prospective and context on tomorrow's big day for the republicans. with me here in the war room headquarters is christine pelosi. she is nancy's daughter but she is a smart, sassy woman, her book campaign boot camp 2.0. it's the great guide on how to mobilize supporters and win elections and from las vegas bill press joins me. bill is the author of the obama hate machine which looks at who

is behind the smearing of our president. bill, glad to have you here, and congratulations on your new current tv show. >> thanks, governor. it's great to see you. i am so excited to join the current tv term. my job is just to warm them up for you every day, governor. >> bless your heart. be very warm. will you? here, you can't see you are sitting next to christine pelosi. i appreciate having you here in the war room. there is a lot going on, on a day that all of us, you know want to sort of prognosticate and figure out. let me start with christine. i know you were listening to david shuster's report on the ground. is there any substitute for organization? >> absolutely none. first of all, you have to know and this is what we say in campaign boot camp. you have to know what the rules are, how many votes does it take to win? how many signatures does it take to qualify? and so these are things that the

santorum campaign didn't have together when they thought he was a real longshot. >> in virginia -- >> it's going to be a game of percentages. if tomorrow santorum wins ohio it doesn't matter how many delegates he gets, he will get the big boost from winning the state. that will translate into other delegates down the line. to simply talk about the technicalities without talking about the real passion behind the people, if he can organize boots on the ground and get voters to the polls tomorrow and win, the delegates will follow. >> you have been talking about this today, his lack of organization and when he is going to -- what he is going to need to be able to get ohio on his side? >> yeah. no, absolutely. christine is right. this organization, organization and there is really only one organization out there. and that's the romney campaign. i mean santorum clearly doesn't have it. i mean look at what david shuster first time i heard that, by the way, reporter from ohio and the fact that santorum's not on the ballot nor is gingrich in

virginia is just i mean inexcusable for a presidential candidate. when i find interesting is with all of that organization and with all of that money, romney still can't seal the deal because people really don't like him. right? and so no matter how strong he is and how much he keeps going, he has won seven out of 12 of the first contests, republicans are just saying ah, we don't want romney. we don't care how strong he is. >> yeah, i completely agree. santorum should be kicking butt in ohio. he really should be. his mention about manufacturing at least, he seems like he understands the pulse of the rural voters the blue-collar voter, evangelical christian and yet for whatever reason he has still not been able to seal the deal. as an organizer, christine, what grade would you give him? >> well the grady give romney is probably a b minus because he started with an a and he has been going down ever since.

i would actually give the same grade to santorum. i will tell you why. he started with nothing. he didn't think he was going to win. he was coming out of nowhere. >> that's why i can't give him a failing grade because he might win on the message. here is his problem, as bill clinton used to say. democrats wants to fall in love and republicans want to fall in line. right now, the republican party is they want to fall in line behind romney the people who vote for him last week they said elect ability was the number one factor. they are in love with santorum. they are thinking can't we vote with our hearts one more time and the rest can vote with your head? >> the question is if santorum ends up winning, does that mean that it's completely flow the romney momentum will change? because right now, it looks like he has it all. >> in ohio? >> correct. in ohio, i am talking about. >> i honestly don't think so because i don't think that the

establishment republican party is going to let a clear loser, meaning rick santorum who wants to do what no other president has ever done, and talk about birth control and make birth control illegal, not just i am moral, i don't think the republican party is going to let that happenimmoral, i don't think the republican party is going to let that happen. this is going to be a long, hard slog. you showed the numbers there with the delegates. mitt romney could sweep it tomorrow. he is not going to because of the proportional delegate allocation and et cetera still not going to be able to wrap up this nomination. it's going to go on and on and on. santorum is not going to get out. gingrich is not going to get out. remember, the other guy who has a pretty good organization christine would have to agree, is ron paul. he is out there slogging every day. >> talking about falling in love. >> the best organization barack obama, 1.3 million signatures against the anti-union law on the ballot.

that measure the appeal got more votes. barack 650,000 voter contacts in the last year. >> to be able to sort of practice essentially for the big one which is the general election. bill and christine, stay right there. we have much more to look at. we are getting started with our preview of super tuesday. we will see who can turn the tide for santorum or seal the deal for romney. the latest from knoxville and nashville and then back to ohio where manufacturing is taking a fresh start. the work force is playing catch-up. those stories and a whole lot more. inside the war room and it's only on current tv.

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and 12 stations. the assault on sandra fluke happened a minute ago, that second radio station wbec in massachusetts just decided today join the exodus. yes, which began late last week and continued through the weekend. thank you to all of you who have decided to stand up for decency people who are not going to take it anymore. thank you to the women and the men of good faith who are doing it. the band wagon of those speaking out against limbaugh gained new members including don imus who knows a thing or two about this. >> he is an insincere pig. really, i mean it's disgraceful. >> okay. well well the guy said something like that last week as a matter of fact. limbaugh apologized again today and again today, he came up with yet another excuse for his

behavior. maybe he won't learn until the last at thisser has left his show and the last radio station has cancelled his program. rick santorum, newt gingrich, mim romney they have joined rush limbaugh in putting women's reproductive rights in the center of this presidential campaign. was that a good idea for them to be doing that? or maybe it's just alienating and firing up women across the country and could it cost the republicans in the upcoming election? for war room view of that we are back with democratic campaign organizer and author christine pelosi and in las vegas, we are rejoined by current tv's bill press. all right, you guys. give it to me on rush. i will start with christine. i know you have got some strong opinions on this, and i would love to hear it. >> this has been a long time coming, from october, 2006 when he made fun of michael j. fox when he was campaigning for stem

krell and making fun of a little boy whose mother had dpied. >> people who have come forward. >> that's right. he said, well, tough luck kid, your mom would be dead anyway. obama care doesn't kick in until 2014. not true. to last week what he said about sandra fluke. the goal is to make sure it's so ugly and so poisonous that no one would dare leverage their celebrity or sanity by coming forward. i am so proud this week that so many people have gathered around sandra fluke but also, for all of the others who have come before her, been criticized and say no more. >> every day citizens, the power of people, bill you have written a book about the hate machines surrounding president obama. i am certain someone like rush limbaugh has been at the forefront getting those messages out. this is another example. >> michael savage and rush

limbaugh are in a rush to the gutter as to how ugly they can be about president obama. christine is right in that this is not -- that's what everybody has said rush has finally, crossed the line. no. no. no. he crossed the line at the beginning of his career. he has had a whole career, 25 years or whatever of making nothing but racist, sectionist remarksxist remarks remarks. he picked a young woman who is not some professional politician or professional activist who was just making a case even the catholic president of her university who disagrees with her policy or she disagrees with his policy, had to defend her right to speak. by the way, i have to say rush's apology, give me a break. >> that's the most graceless, insincere apology we have ever heard. he said it was a poor choice of words. oh, my god. poor choice of words, yeah. >> i know that you have got to jump, bill. thank you for joining us. you are going to be back inside the war -- you are going to be

back on current tomorrow night and i really appreciate it because you are going to be with current in many more nights and days. so appreciate it. christine, what he just said about the apology on the part of rush limbaugh is exactly at the point. he just talked about two words that he used and that was it. it was totally ungracious and obviously insincere and only in response to these advertisers who are fleeing him. so to me get back to the point of what you are all about, which is organizing and getting people to be able to to respond to something they don't agree with. >> that's right. i think that women need to take a look at what happened this week and say, you know, we know governor, you have been encouraging women your whole career to go into politics to go into public service and what do they say? they say it's too ugly out there. i don't want to do that. i don't to expose myself or my family to that. what we are learning from the courage of sand are a fluke and from the courage of people standing up is, you know what? it doesn't have to be that way. if you come forward we accept our responsibility to back you

up. we will do that. there is no better way to celebrate women's history month than to finally, turn the tide to women and say make history of your own. the water is warm. it's not as political as you think. we will help clean it up for you. >> let me switch gears for one second because there was another big story that came out of yesterday and today which was the president's speech at apac. the reaction on the part of the republican camp and it's the, you know, pro war, i am going to bombb iran was, you know, thing. i would like to know your reaction because i know you are a strong supporter of israel. and what should the president -- what more should the president be saying, if anything and does it concern you that there is all of the sabre rattling happening? >> i think the president hit exact the right note. he doesn't bluff. he doesn't show his hand. he doesn't bluster. he simply says these are the facts. everything is on the table. i am so glad that he did. my grandfather 70 years ago stood up on the floor of

congress, a congressman from maryland and talked about a haven for the jewish people and how important that was during world war ii and right after. so for my family with my daughter, four generations of people, very closely attuned to this. so i love what the president said. i think it was very important. when it comes to iran let's be clear, the republicans are talking the president on iran. call it the 3:00 a.m. test of the finger on the button test but if norad had seven minutes to scramble the jets what is the judgment of the president to save that life. they haven't proved that case. sabre rattling won't answer the question. can they make us safer than barack obama. >> all he has to say is osama bin laden. bill press and christine pelosi thank you so much for being here inside the war room. up next, we are going to head out to tennessee where santorum has a slight lead.

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only one who thinks an amendment to the constitution may be in order. that's next on "the war room." . >> back to the war room. i am jennifer granholm. one of the key states on super tuesday is tens. two new polls show there the race is getting tighter, and, in fact, according to the latest

ppp survey santorum has 34% to romney's 2 fine %. gingrich is just two points behind at 27 and paul trails at only 8 points. another poll that was conducted by weaskamerica shows romney leads santorum and gingrich, though only by a point obviously within -- paul has 12%. interesting, this is sort of a snapshot. at stake in tennessee are 58 tell gates. those are awarded proportionately. the unemployment rate is 8.7, which is above the national average just a little bit. overall, the state is very socially conservative and former arkansas governor mike huckabee won in tuwave and one in four people believe president obama is a muslim. very interesting fact. sol right now for another look on the ground at what's going on

tennessee of what's going to happen with the tennessee voters, we are going to go right to governor phil breneson. are you there. >> i am here. >> governor brenason and i served as governors, served at the same time as i did as governor of michigan i was there from 2003 to end of 2010 as was i. governor breneson. you were somebody who was elected as a moderate governor in a southern state and my first question is: a poll i just read that one in four voters believe that president obama is a muslim. is this any -- is there any likelihood of president obama winning this state in november before we get to tomorrow? >> i don't think that's really realistic that the president

could win this could win tennessee there are a number of factors there. the state is turning very republican now but he certainly has a lot of avid supporters in the state but it's not a majority. >> well, tomorrow then in light of i know that there is a very faith-based population in tennessee. and that's maybe one of the reasons why rick santorum has done well. who did you predict or what's going on in the ground? when you talk to people what's your prediction for tomorrow based on what you know? >> i think it's a jump. i would not be at all surprised to see mitt romney win the state for a couple of reasons. first of all, any people want to go with the winner and i think romney is looking more and more inevitable at this point. and second of all, tennessee has a history of when push comes to shove among republicans of electing pretty moderate people and howard baker, you think back

beginning there, both of our u.s. senators are certainly from the -- from the moderate wing of their party, and i think in the end, that goes well with voters. i think that may be enough to push romney over the top. >> another poll that was done though, had one in five voters in tennessee if i am -- if i am getting that right. >> uh-huh. >> believed that mormonism is a cult. i mean how does that affect square? i mean you -- how does that affect square? you end up. >> you know from your time in office, you take polls with a little grain of salt. these are not people answering questions to the f.b.i. or something if some polster calls on the phone. you have people who may be very opposed to the president who

would, you know, yeah, he is a muslim or very concerned about romney for some reason that would throw those things out. polls are good for very large fact, you know, the big picture things. i don't think they are a very good way to get at the subtleties. i am a democrat who was elected and reelected very strongly in our state and got an awful lot of those same faith-based votes. these are not folks that are just channelled into one place or another. >> and frank you have spoken very eloquently about the need for democrats to have a big tent, and as you watch what's going on in the republican party with their sort of, you know pushing immigrants out or to the side of this anti-women move that they have had anti-gay et cetera, are they not in danger of having such a small tent that it ends up certainly benefitting the democrats in the fall? >> i think terrible what's gone

on in the past year and during this primary season in the republican party is really damaging them considerably. people don't in the end like that. you know, if you joined a church, do you want to belong to a church that's busy rooting out her heretics? i think republicans are going to have to come back to something. they have done well in the past, i have to say, which is open the doors of the tent. there were a lot of union democrats that they successfully 20, 30, 40 years ago brought into their party. right now, they are just, i think going through kind of a sickness. >> well, i would say so too. former governor, phil bredesen. thank you for joining us. with us next is going to be the susan richardson williams. susan is a romney supporter and

she is -- she is a tremendous sole in tennessee. she is somebody who has been a big advocate for romney and a big player in the republican party and i am glad that she is with us today. susan, are you there? >> i am. thank you, governor. >> great. glad to have you here in your opinion -- i know you are a romney supporter. what are the issues that tennessee republicans are most concerned with? >> well, i think what we are hearing most about is just the economy, the debt, you know fiscal issues here are incredibly important here. they are in every other state across the union. you know, we are concerned about the spiraling debt and what we are going to do about it and how we are going to create jobs and get the economy back on track. >> well, that's obviously, i think something people want to hear. there is a focus on the economy. are you a little concerned, though, about all of this crazy talk about contraception, rush

limbaugh, all of that? doesn't that get y'all off track? notice i say, "y'all" when i start talking to a tennesseean. >> i think it's a little distrastic, but i think people are focused on on the economy. it's fun for the pundits to talk about. it's fun to bash rush limbaugh. down here in tennessee, we don't pay much attention to that. we really, i think try to look at the issues and vote for the person we think is going to get us back to track. >> so you think that romney will actually pull this out in tens tomorrow? >> i think it's going to be very close. the exit polling, we have early voting here and it goes for three weeks. until a week before super tuesday. the early polling shows that santorum was a little bit up. of course, that was prior to the michigan primary where i think

romney certainly had a nice bump. the current ones you just talked about show it really neck and neck and probably too close to call. certainly within the margin of era. so i think it's going to be really close. it's certainly between romney and santorum. gingrich though is not to be discounted. i think he is going to get a really good vote in tennessee. >> well, it's interesting because i know gingrich is advertising in tennessee. this issue about the early voting, though, i think is a fascinating one because of the early voting in michigan that bumped romney above santorum because santorum has been doing really well on the day of the vote. i think you are right. it's going to be very close. if you see romney winning tens, do you think that will portend well for him for other southern states? >>? >> i do, governor. i think he is going to do well tomorrow here whether he wins it

is not necessarily particularly relevant. of course, frankly because we are a proportional delegate state as well and we have 58 delegates and i think santorum will get his share romney will get his share and gingrich will possibly get some. so it really is all about momentum. i think if he wins or is very close, it will be fine here. >> well, that's susan richardson williams. thank you so much for joining us inside the war room. she is a romney delegate, the former chair of the tennessee g.o.p. on the ground, all right. up next, how is the obama campaign monitoring the g.o.p. primary? from where i am sitting it's with a big grin and a bag of popcorn and a bunch of positive data. later on how the general election may play out with former calf state treasurer phil angelini. this is the war room and we will be right back.

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fiscal -- i have to ask him what the title was but he was responsible for the -- analyzing what happened in the fiscal melt downtown in 2008 and responsible for the report on that. i am so pleased to be able to welcome phil angelinis in the war room. can you hear me? >> i can. how are you doing, governor? >> i am doing great. what was the fiscal commission named? tell me again. >> the financial crisis inquiry commission appointed by the congress to examine the financial melt downtown on wall street that devastated this country. >> all right. you have got experience in manufacturing. you have experience in politic. you have experience in the economy, all of that wrapped into one. so let me start on the subject that's near and dear to my heart, especially in light of ohio and the closeness between initial's experience and ohio's experience. ohio has seen a bit of a turnaround in the past couple

years, more uptick some due to clean energy manufacturing. so the question really is is that uptick going to present a problem for the republicans in the general election? >> it's because of the automatic 0 bail-out or the saving of the automatic 0 companies which allowed them to compete globally. we preserved the supply chain but have been building a northwestic clean energy. we have hope in the midwestern states. the thing that strikes me is the republicans are immersed in excuse the phrase crazy talk about contraception, separation of church and state and white kids don't need a college education. so even romnerable wanting to focus on the economy, that's not the scepter of the republican de -- center of the republican debate. >> that's hurting them badly in the sense they are not now seen by americans as focusing like a lacer on the economy.

it's the economy, stupid and the republicans are embattled in a social issues. the fact that there has been progress in the industrial midwest on manufacturing, returning is a plus. we need to do more. as of right now if that's the fulcrum of this election, i think that's positive for the democrats. >> because you were head of the apollo alliance now moved into the blue green alliance you were focused on the policies when you say we have to do more. if you had to pick one policy out of the air that you think would be the most significant for the united states to adopt, and i would love to know any candidates talking about it, what would it be to get these good manufacturing jobs. >> high standards. if you look at germany, high wage exporting high-quality technology throughout the world. we ought to set high standards.

if you look at the republican party, they have been doing quite the opposite trying to roll back clean air standards, trying to roll back tough standards on mercury in the air, all of the very things that drive industry, the innovation and create high-quality products, and again, jennifer, i think this, what's really remarkable about this republican primary season is: here is mitt romney who is supposed to be the economist expert within that republican party and he hasn't closed the sale. it's been, you know, he said he was severely conservative. he seems to be severely unaccepted by wide swaths of his own party who don't yet lock on to his ability to turn this economy around. i think the fact that the dialogue has been so much around social issues has constrained the republicans and the absence of a real plan to put america back to work. look at it romney has no real plan for foreclosure relief no real plan for building manufacturing, at least rick santorum gives lip service to

it. he's got no real plan for balancing the budget. it's really back to what george bush, the 1st called voodoo economics. it's the polls where romney's unfavorables keep going up. >> let me jump to something else, using your -- putting your fiscal hat on as the former straight freezeier dealt with the follow-up for the financial crisis. just this past week, you wrote an editorial in "the new york times." i am going to quote you. it says attorney general eric holder proclaimed in a speech when it comes to fighting financial fraud, the obama administration's record has been nothing less than historic. you say such self congratlation is not only premature. a war against financial wrong do. so what will it take to win the war against financial

wrongdoing? do you think the obama administration will recover from what you see as a challenge? >> first of all, not enough has been done. fraud prosecutions less than half of what they were in the savings and loan where 1,000 bankers were convicted of felonies. i am going to call it like i see it. having said that, the president recently convened a working group, co-chaired by new york's aggressive attorney general, eric snyderman. what needs to be happening is dedicated resources. we need to get the regulators to send over their best examiners. we need to broad en the statute of limitations so people don't skate just because time has lapsed. and, you know, frankly, we need to have an all-out effort to really make sure there is consequence for the financial wrongdoing that occurred on wall street. there has been no correlation between who drove this crisis and who is paying the price for

it. we don't want hangman justice but we want wrongs righted and we want det-terrence. again, to compare the parties. while i have been very clear that i think the obama administration has been slow off of the mark the republicans on the other hand the house republicans, have tried to interfere with almost any serious investigation of the financial crisis. they did it with our commission. they did with elizabeth warren. so there is stark contrasts here but we need to do better. >> i tell you these issues obviously manufacturing, the financial crisis, and, you know, what that portends in the general election and in the primary when you have republicans who are not talking about it at all and who want to repeal dodd frank and don't want to allow citizens to be able to recoup from the devastation that they have experienced in 2008, there is a good contrast. you are here on the ground in california. i have to ask you -- >> sure. >> there is a lot of republicans who are here, but sometimes they are on this show who are looking forward to the primary

lasting as long as -- until it can get to california and make california relevant for the republicans, which normally is not the case. what do you think with respect to the motherlode of i think we have 172 delegates here in california. if it were today, what would happen in california with with respect to these candidates? >> probably romney would win given his resources. this is quite the media state. we have 13 media markets. i ran for governor here and governor's races cost about $100 million. we have that add vantage. let me say something as the father of three daughters. i have watched some young men court my daughters. two are now married. this courtship by romney of the republican party is long and painful. you know, he keeps i don't meaning to the door and the parents keep looking at him. the girl keeps kind of saying i don't know. and so, i think this is going to go for a while. % he seems unable to close the deal. he has been looking at the exit polls, even 40 to 50% of the

republicans, they are saying he is the best on the economy. he is not even getting a clear majority among republicans. there is a lot of buyers' remorse. and they haven't purchased yet. this may go the distance. no democrat should be crowing. it's going to be a tough general election. the country is hurting. there is a lot of frustration out there. so it will be a tough general election. but so far, at least our president's talking about the right things. they are talking about the wrong things. >> yeah. i think the president has his mojo back. >> i hope so. >> i think it is good for our party. it's great to hear your voice. great to see you. thank you for joining us inside the war room. >> great to have you. >> great to be here. stick around, everybody because we have so much more coming up. you are not going to want to miss it. right here in the war room.

as we have been talking about, ohio is perhaps the key state in the upcoming presidential election obviously in the primaries, certainly in the general. after a rough patch, manufacturing is beginning to show signs of life again in ohio. and it accounts for a quarter of job growth in the buckeye state over the last two years. companies are starting to relocate from mexico and asia a whole variety of technological

advances on factory floors so those companies need fewer workers. they need ones with more specialized skill than ever before. can mid-career, laid-off workers get the training they need in this brave new world to manufacturing? we traveled todayton ohio to see how one city is working to be part of this work force. an example of what is working. vanguard correspondent adam namaguchi reports. >> dayton ohio still bears scars of the economic downturn. once a thriving hub for manufacturing, they shed over 32,000 manufacturing jobs between 2001 and 2011. in 2008, the area's last general motors plant, which once employed over 4,000 people closed its doors. >> we went to a meeting, you see on t.v. they were shutting the plant down. >> i had this vision of this

big, gentle dragon taking the life from us. >> an hbo document occur, the last truck chronicled this in a place known for automated innovation adding to the perception of dayton as a dying city. forbes magazine listed it one of america's 5 most downsized cities in 2009. the huge good morning complex sits empty. but today, there is fresh hope dayton manufacturing can regain its former glory. general election trick, healthcare company abbott laboratories and other major companies have announced they will open factors here they will look different from the assembly lines manned by an army of low-skilled workers. high-tech manufacturing has come to dayton. this is yaskama, used to automate assembly lines. roger christian gave me a tour

of their factory floor. >> this is our core product, our welding robot. this is age example of one of the robots we sell. the robots weld the parts and while the robots are welding, the operator is loading the finished parts and reloading the next tour with new parts to be welded again. >> he says the boost of productivity on the factory floor through the use of robots will be a critical factory in bringing more businesses and ultimately more jobs back to america. >> at the same time, the automation is making it easier to manufacture at a competitive level here, reducing all hassles of off-shoring. >> most of the rob botts are for the auto industry but they also make them to work on other assembly lines. >> for a lot of americans, the image that comes to mind is that classic i love lucy packaging the candies and having trouble. >> absolutely. meet lucy.

for someone who lookstises robot and says, job killer what is increased productivity? what does that due to the economy? >> we think building the robots people. programming the robots people. the job may go from putting candies in by humans to robots but that's upgrading the skill level of the people who build the robots, who program it, install it. >> finding people to fill the jobs created by high-tech manufacturing isn't easy. america has a mismatch between the kind of position now open and the skill sets of millions of unemployed americans. >> right now when the economy picks up for us being able to get skilled workers is really difficult as well. >> rick little is a president of a contract manufacturing company located in dayton. he and other local business meters meet regularly to discuss what must be done to solve this labor shortage. >> we are not talking about the opportunities -- and there is a stigma attached to being

manufacturer unfortunately. so the question, then, for us is: how are we going to change that, or how are we going to influence that? >> one way that's going to change is the community college level. they are getting trained for highly skilled manufacturing jobs. sinclair community college is working clothes with dayton's business leaders to retrain for manufacturing for solar and wind energy. >> after being laid off from a job in it in 2009, robert hay decided to enroll in sinclair's program in precision manufacturing. while he took classes, the school helps match him up with a job. he works full-time as a machinist while finishing up his degree. >> did you think you could find yourself in this business. >> not in dayton, ohio. i didn't. i thought i would have to move away from my hometown and i found out that, no i didn't. there is more than enough jobs for people in manufacturing in dayton, ohio, still.

>> what do you think happened? >> the green energy movement has pushed through. we are seeing people building sola fans and windmills and things of that nature that we didn't have. so they are having to re-tool. they need all of this manufacturing equipment. and you can't do that overseas. we can do over here just as well. we have the equipment. we have workers. we have everything. let's do it. >> that was adam yamaguchi's report, gives a huge amount of hope for those of us who believe advanced manufacturing is an important industrial sector for our country. very encouraging. stay with us. we will be right back on this super tuesday preview.

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