[sickoflibs]

RE :”If reason and truth mattered in this election, people like Kraut might be influential enough to defeat O. But it may boil down to auto bailouts in Ohio and Govt. jobs (and govt.-related-jobs) in Virginia.
Obama seems to be losing big time in Florida (behind 15 even in the NBC poll)”

GM is one of the many topics that Romney/Republicans avoid talking/debating about. That and social issues and the war and what the tax ‘loopholes’ are in his ‘plan’.
Each topic that he avoids Obama/Dems fill in with their own narrative much like the claim that Romney will raise middle class taxes (instead we all know he will run big deficits like the others but he doesnt want to say that.)

Obama and Dems are also assaulting Romney's character.

In return Romney is playing one card: unemployment with Obama as POTUS,

[dalebert]

I see Obama promised 1 million jobs in 4 years..we have 23 million out of work

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

GM is one of the many topics that Romney/Republicans avoid talking/debating about.

Maybe Romney and gang are afraid that if he brings up the GM bailout he will sound like Sharron Angle (blame the unemployed) to Ohio voters. Even if he used the fact that the govt. lost money in the deal, it's not clear to me that Ohio voters want to hear the truth. "You want to bail out Wall Street but not US workers!"