In Ohio, Obama rallies students, hits Romney on education funding - The Washington Post

In Ohio, Obama rallies students, hits Romney on education funding - The Washington Post:

In Ohio, Obama rallies students, hits Romney on education funding

View Photo Gallery — President Obama shakes hands at Sloopy’s diner inside the student union of the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday. View more photos from the campaign trail.

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By David Nakamura, Updated: Tuesday, August 21, 12:00 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio — President Obama made an impassioned appeal Tuesday to the types of young people who powered his campaign four years ago, pledging to keep college affordable and mocking rival Mitt Romney’s commitment to federal student loan programs.

At an outdoor rally at Capital University here, Obama told a crowd of 3,300 that he and his wife Michelle understand firsthand the burden of a “mountain of debt” from loans because when they married after law school they “got poor together. We combined our liabilities