Districts in Play: Ohio's 16th District

Thoughts from voters in this swing district as mid-terms approach

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Bud Spicer, truck driver, and Claude Wright, truck driver, at the L.A City Diner in Canton, Ohio. (Andrea Bernstein)

We have just a few weeks left until voters head to the polls for the midterms. Takeaway political correspondent Andrea Bernstein has been searching out districts across the country that are hotly contested. She is just back from Stark County, Ohio, where the 16th Congressional district is turning into a political battleground. In 2008, the district went for Sen. John McCain, but elected Democrat John Boccieri to its Congressional seat.

“ There is an incredible flood of political advertising that is absolutely poisonous ... There's literally an advertisement on television which shows the American flag unraveling. There's a high emotional level of rhetoric which pretty much says everybody that's in should be out.
— Andrea Bernstein

Andrea Bernstein

Rep. John Boccieri (D-Ohio) addresses a Get Out The Vote rally in Canton, Ohio.

Andrea Bernstein

Alice Prestier used to worked at Hoover's Vacuums, which closed after she worked there three decades. Now she wonder's: where's the change?

Andrea Bernstein

Democrat Yvette McGee Brown, running for Ohio's Lt. Governor, addresses a rally in Ohio. "It's not the Democrats" who created the financial mess, she said.

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