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Obama new video ad on Bain "outsourcing" in advance of Mitt's Virginia visit

By  Lynn Sweet
   
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WASHINGTON–Mitt Romney stumps Tuesday at a machinery company in Salem, Va.–the southern part of an important battleground state–as the Obama team runs a new ad there hitting him on his Bain business credentials.

Other Obama ads–customized for battlegrounds Iowa and Ohio–are running in those states. Vice President Joe Biden–who hit Chicago on Monday for a fund-raising at a Lincoln Park home–is campaigning in Waterloo, Ia.

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