President Obama travels today to Ohio, where he will hold a town-hall meeting at Lorain County Community College to “discuss how to improve the economy and increase jobs with students, workers, business and civic leaders.”

Of course, this might be a good time to note that Rasmussen’s latest poll in that state has 54 percent of Ohioans disapproving of President Obama’s job performance, with 41 percent approving.

The Washington Post observes:

The last time Barack Obama came to this struggling blue-collar city was during the 2008 presidential primary campaign, when he told workers at the National Gypsum drywall factory that if elected he would pursue a “job-creation agenda.”
Now, as President Obama returns here Friday, the drywall plant is closed, its 58 jobs victims of a steep downturn in housing construction . . . The National Gypsum plant closed in May 2008, eight months before Obama moved into the White House.
. . . When candidate Obama visited Lorain County, the jobless rate here was 6.9 percent. By the time he took office, it was up to 7.9 percent. It reached a high of 11.5 percent last summer, before retreating to the current level of 9.5 percent.

Yeah, but I hear today’s event is going to have a lot more cowbell.