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Summary US President Barack Obama kicked off his re-election campaign in state of Ohio.
President Obama launched his re-election campaign in the battleground states of Virginia and Ohio on Saturday, highlighting progress the US has made toward pulling itself out of an economic malaise under his leadership while blasting the presumptive nominee Mitt Romney as out of touch with the middle class.Accompanied by his wife Michelle, the president delivered speeches before raucous audiences on the campuses of Ohio State University in Columbus and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.I believe in you. Im asking you to keep believing in me, the president said to thunderous applause at Ohio State, where about 14,000 supporters gathered for his speech.
