Obama will use the plant to argue that his administration has been creating jobs. It might be a tough sell in Gaston County, where the unemployment rate was 10.9 percent in December.
The president's appearance underscores the importance of North Carolina to his reelection hopes. Obama won the state by just 14,000 votes in 2008, and the state is considered a toss-up again. Expect Obama to make a number of campaign appearances in North Carolina before and after he is renominated at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte in September.
The Republican Party couldn't let Obama go unchallenged in his appearance here Wednesday. The GOP sent the Observer an op-ed to coincide with the president's trip. In it, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus argues that the economy is worse on almost every measure because of Obama.
Among other things, Priebus says, Obama has driven up the national debt. "That debt threatens government solvency, our children’s future, and our economic stability," Priebus writes. "Yet President Obama, despite his promises to cut the deficit in half, has made the problem worse."
To read the rest of Priebus' op-ed, click here.
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