The unions in Canton were the culprit. Doesn't Stark county usually go Republican?
Stark is a swing county. The huge manufacturing job losses hit hard there, so no surprise. I'd be a lot more inclined to blame Taft over Bush. I lost my job as a research scientist for a company in Lake county, but I don't blame anybody except the company that let me go.
Canton and Massillon were once BIG steel towns, and you know THAT story lately. N. Canton, also in Stark Co. is home of the Hoover Co. and there were recent, very recent, layoffs there. Diebold Co. is also in Canton, a mfg. concern as well. Lots of lame old strong labor ties here even though labor unions have systematically driven the jobs away with their over the top and unreasonable demands on the companies. You never met such a bunch of rabid, ill informed and blindly Roosevelt type Democrats in your life.