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. >> senator rob portman was on the platform tonight so was john casic. to characterize the campaign saying take your anger and your campaign of hate back to chicago, does this elevate the rhetoric in the campaign, and where does it end? where is the civility in all of this? >> it is escalating the racial rhetoric here. you go from accusing the obama campaign of racial manipulation through vice president biden's remarks, but then you up the ante of what you think is a racialized remark. you say take your campaign of hate back to chicago. that has a lot of meanings. chicago, a city that features prominently african-american middle class leaders and other prominent spokespeople like reverend jesse jackson and the like. they're suffering from extraordinary economic and social devastation with high rates of murder and the like. it rings in a nasty way and suggested that the escalation of the rhetoric is going to get nasty and mitt romney, unlike john mccain four years ago, is willing to do whatever he has to do in order to win. that means even stirring up the