美国总统奥巴马星期三将在俄亥俄州进行竞选连任的活动，在2012年总统选举开始增温之际，预计他将为自己饱受批评的经济政策辩护。奥巴马将在俄亥俄州开始今年的首次竞选之旅，俄亥俄州被认为对奥巴马竞选连任至关重要。目前人们的注意力集中在共和党总统候选人提名上，而奥巴马星期三将在一所郊区高中发表演讲。
白宫几乎没有透露有关奥巴马这次出行的细节，但奥巴马将把重点放在重建美国经济和增加就业上，白宫指责说，这一政策被国会中的共和党人搁置。
奥巴马星期二与爱奥华州党团会议的参与者举行了一次视频会议，就此开始了他2012年的竞选活动。星期二，共和党和民主党都在这个位于美国中西部的州展开 2012年总统选举的候选人提名首轮活动。在华盛顿，奥巴马强调了他的政府的主要成就，包括实现华尔街和医保制度的改革、结束伊拉克战争以及取消对同性恋军人公开性取向的禁令。
U.S. President Barack Obama will take his re-election campaign to ((the midwestern state of)) Ohio on Wednesday, where he is expected to defend his heavily criticized economic policies as the 2012 presidential election race heats up. Mr. Obama will make his first campaign trip of the year to the state considered crucial to the president's re-election. With the spotlight on the Republican nomination process, the president will speak at a suburban high school on Wednesday. The White House has released few details about his trip, but the president will focus on his message of rebuilding the American economy and creating jobs -- a policy initiative the White House charges has been stalled by Congressional Republicans.
The president kicked off his 2012 campaign events on Tuesday in a video teleconference to attendees at the Iowa caucuses. Both Republicans and Democrats held the first nominating contests in the 2012 presidential election in the midwestern state on Tuesday. From Washington, Mr. Obama highlighted major accomplishments of his administration, including passage of reform on Wall Street and health care, ending the war in Iraq, and reversing the ban on openly homosexual people serving in the military.
