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By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray ColemanCLEVELAND, Ohio-Barack Obama will visit Cleveland on Thursday to speak at a not-open-to-the-public forum on manufacturing, jobs and the economy at ArcelorMittal, one of the world's leading integrated steel and mining companies. The visit marks the president's first visit to the largely Black major American city since his successful reelection campaign when his private airplane landed him at Burke Lakefront Airport in downtown Cleveland in October of last year and he urged a crowd there of some 12,000 people to choose him over Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney.
Obama went on to win the 2012 presidential election after winning
the swing state of Ohio by 2 percentage points.
"We're going to win Cleveland, we're going to win Ohio, and we're going to finish what we started," Obama said during a campaign visit to Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland in 2012. (Editor's Note: Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com covered the 2012 Democratic primary and general elections for president of the United States of America, including the campaign visit by President Obama to Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland . Kathy Wray Coleman, who is the editor -in-chief at Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, also covered the Democratic Primary and general presidential election for president in 2008, then as a reporter for the Call and Post Newspaper. The coverage include's Coleman's one-on-one intervew with Obama, then a junior senator from Illinois).
Ohio is a key battleground state like Virginia with no Republican winning the White House in recent years without first winning Ohio and the last Democrat to meet the threshold being John F. Kennedy in 1960.
A Democrat and former U.S. senator, Obama is currently
serving the first year of a second four year term and is the first Black president of the United States of America. The term limit for the United States presidency is two consecutive four year terms.
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