I am visiting my family and friends in the dead center of the bitter lands Obama referred to at his San Francisco fundraiser last week –Warren, Ohio, the first capital of the Western Reserve, a few miles from the PA border, a land of disappointed-with-life, church-attending gun owners. All is blighted here, forlorn, downcast. Many are Steelers fans.

Exurban League got the scoop on the new Obama outreach to the disaffected masses of middle America in need of saving by a Chicago pol: