Ryan planned stops at a factory and a bakery, a couple of high schools and a dairy on his first day of this campaign swing through Ohio, a state that has become the lynchpin of Mitt Romney's presidential bid. Romney and Ryan appeared together on Friday night at a high school sports field, and Ryan planned to be in the state alone until Monday, trying to connect with working class voters the GOP needs if it is to deny Obama a second term on Nov. 6.
"We cannot afford four more years like these last four years," Ryan told 1,000 supporters who huddled on the cold factory floor of Gradall Industries in eastern Ohio. "And we don't have to."
Ryan set out on his 400-mile tour of Ohio under gray skies and rain, beginning a swing where he would lay the blame for the nation's struggling economy solely at Obama's doorstep. While Ohio has an unemployment rate lower than the national average, Ryan has argued that the state's relative fortunes are despite Obama, not because of him.
"He can't run on his record. The Obama economic agenda failed not because it was stopped; it failed because it was passed," Ryan said.
Ryan, a congressman from Wisconsin and the top Republican budget writer in the House, said voters need to consider how they want to feel when they wake up the day after the election.
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