Greg Sargent's Plumline Blog at The Washington Post has this piece which gives a terrific summary of how newspapers in OH are responding to Romney's latest ad - here I note that the ad does NOT say the jobs are going tobe moved from OH to China, but after Romney's comments about such a movement and because of how it is phrased most people on first hearing the ad think that is what they are being told.
Sargent quotes from The Toledo Blade, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the Columbus Dispath, which endorsed Romney (it is Republican and conservative in its orientation). The Cleveland editorial is titled Flailing in Ohio, Romney rolls out Jeep ploy, and here is what Sargent offers about it:
The editorial flatly noted that Romney is now trying to sow “confusion” among Ohioans, to obscure his opposition to a policy that has helped save an industry linked to one in eight Ohio jobs. “It won’t work,” it concluded. “Ohio voters know who stepped up when the auto industry was at the abyss — and it wasn’t Romney.”
As for the Dispatch,
And the Columbus Dispatch has been running with headlines like: “Jeep/Romney question lingers.” The Dispatch extensively fact-checked Romney’s claims about the auto-bailout, clearly demonstrating that he did in fact oppose the rescue of the industry Obama ended up pursuing.
Worth looking at the post and following the links.