Nogle was one of approximately 75 “quiet Democrats” on hand for the opening of a Barack Obama presidential reelection campaign office Thursday night in Springboro. The office marks an unprecedented second office for a Democrat in the heavily republican Warren County. A re-election office is already open in Mason and the county democratic headquarters is in Lebanon.
“I believe it shows we have a lot of voters open to our position,” said Bethe Goldenfield, chairwoman of the Warren County Democratic Party.
Goldenfield said she was realistic that Obama would not win Warren County, but said she was aiming to get 35 percent of the vote, three percentage points more than Obama received in 2008.
“Every Democrat in Warren County thinks they are an island,” Goldenfield said. “It’s important to have an office like this to show them that’s not the case.”
Brad Lewin of Springboro said he supported the president’s policies on job creation and affordable health care.
“President Obama is the guy who is speaking up for the working and middle class, which is most Americans,” Lewin said. “He’s not against people being successful. It’s the fact the working class isn’t getting pulled up and the rift between richer and poorer keeps growing that is the problem.”
David Nichols, chairman of the Warren County Republican Party, said he wasn’t surprised the Obama camp would open a second office in Warren County because both sides realized the county’s importance to winning Ohio and possibly the entire election.
“This needs to be an election based on facts and not getting personal,” Nichols said. “Romney needs to stay on topic about the economy and not run from being a good business man. It’s perfectly fine that he worked hard and was successful. That’s what is supposed to happen. The Obama record is one of failed policy after failed policy.”
Nichols said he was not certain if Romney’s campaign would open another office in Warren County. The only office is held out of the county’s Republican party headquarters in Lebanon.
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