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Senator McCain makes stop in Yellow Springs, Ohio

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The financial meltdown on Wall Street has dominated the presidential campaigns. But voters in the Midwest are equally concerned about the loss of manufacturing jobs along Main Street. Manufacturing lost more than four-million jobs last year, many of them in states like Ohio and Michigan. Voters in the rust belt hope a new President might help stop the loss of manufacturing jobs. WYSO?s Emily McCord reports.
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The financial meltdown on Wall Street has dominated the presidential campaigns. But voters in the Midwest are equally concerned about the loss of manufacturing jobs along Main Street. Manufacturing lost more than four-million jobs last year, many of them in states like Ohio and Michigan. Voters in the rust belt hope a new President might help stop the loss of manufacturing jobs. WYSO?s Emily McCord reports.
EMILY: Dana Davidson helped build SUVs at a General Motors plant near Dayton, Ohio for 11 years. Today she?s unemployed and the automaker is closing the factory in December?
DAVIDSON: "You know, the people in the plant we look at as family. You build a network with people, you're close to them, you know about their children, their family, you've been to their homes...it's been a rocky road."
EMILY: The 14-hundred jobs lost at the General motors plant mirror a common trend...
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