Sunil Daga walked Vice President Joe Biden through a large warehouse, part of his Solon-based company Wrap Tite. Daga bought the property last year and is dreaming big, explaining to Biden the machines he will buy in coming months to expand his business.
Joe Biden: So you just keep adapting to what customers need?
Biden was here to speak to a friendly crowd of small business owners who hope to benefit from the White Houses jobs bill. The bill would invest in infrastructure, cut payroll taxes and pump up loans to small businesses.
Joe Biden: This is going to be a fight. It's going to be a fight about who we are as a country and what we believe in as americans. And the President and I are ready to fight and for the people of Ohio and the middle class to join that fight.
Ohio has been a busy place lately with politicians looking to score points with voters trying to understand the jobs bill. Biden and Obama have visited Ohio four times since Labor Day. The Republicans have also been busy. Monday, in Cincinnati, US House Speaker John Boehner told small business owners that the bill amounted to class warfare because it relied on taxes on the wealthy.
John Boehner: At a time when it's spending that's out of control giving the federal government more money would be like giving a cocaine addict more cocaine. We've got to get spending under control.
Ohio is significant, experts say, because of its role as a swing state that helps decide presidential elections. President Obama even came to Columbus earlier this month when he started looking for support for his bill.
Barack Obama: Ohio, if you pass this bill then right here in this state tens of thousands of construction workers will have jobs again.
Not only is Obama hoping to win over supporters to his latest jobs plan, but by appealing to working class issues, Paul Beck says, the President is also looking to win over middle class Ohioans who tend to vote by their pocketbooks and not on party lines. That from Paul Beck, Ohio State University Political Science Professor.
Paul Beck: There are a lot of symbols being manipulated here and the manipulation of symbols go behind the legislative agenda and really is playing into the startup of the 2012 campaign.
And the campaign continues this week. President Obama will be in Cincinnati Thursday to push his jobs bill again.