:00:07. > :00:11.The Prime Minister orders an urgent inquiry following allegations of
:00:11. > :00:18.child sex abuse involving a senior Conservative from the Thatcher
:00:18. > :00:22.years. The inquiry will look at whether claims of abuse at
:00:22. > :00:26.children's homes in North Wales in the 70s and 80s were ever properly
:00:26. > :00:29.investigated. Child abuse is an abhorrent crime and these
:00:29. > :00:37.allegations are truly dreadful. They must not be left hanging in
:00:37. > :00:40.the air so I am taking action today. I weld come the announcement -- I
:00:40. > :00:45.welcome the announcement. There is no point in an inquiry into the
:00:45. > :00:50.inquiry. Also tonight, we are in Washington looking at the closing
:00:50. > :00:53.hours of this closely-fought presidential campaign. The Obama
:00:53. > :00:58.team is urging supporters to turn out with the result looking too
:00:58. > :01:08.close to call. We will win this election. We will finish what we
:01:08. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:18.started. Team or -- 18 Romney is heading to three pivotal states.
:01:18. > :01:22.hoped that Obama would solve problems. He has not. I will.
:01:22. > :01:28.will be knocking on doors in rural Ohio, the state that could deliver
:01:28. > :01:32.the keys to the White House. Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC
:01:32. > :01:42.News Channel: Craig Levein pays for Scotland's poor form and is sacked
:01:42. > :01:55.
:01:55. > :01:59.as manager with the team bottom of Good evening. An urgent inquiry has
:01:59. > :02:02.been set up by the Prime Minister following allegations of child sex
:02:02. > :02:11.abuse are involving, among others, a senior Conservative from the
:02:11. > :02:15.Thatcher era. The abuse is alleged to have taken place in the 70s and
:02:15. > :02:21.80s at care homes in North Wales. An inquiry will look at whether the
:02:21. > :02:24.first inquiry was sufficiently thorough. They were also look at
:02:24. > :02:32.whether police looked at it sufficiently a thoroughly at the
:02:32. > :02:36.time. A dozen years after Britain's
:02:36. > :02:40.biggest child abuse inquiry, the victims say that their stories were
:02:40. > :02:44.never really listened to. We used to hide with our heads under the
:02:44. > :02:48.sheets, hoping to God it was not due next. We would see them coming
:02:49. > :02:54.back at night, crying their eyes out. A Keith Gregory suffered years
:02:54. > :03:01.of abuse at the Bryn Estyn home in Wrexham. I was aware of different
:03:02. > :03:06.people, cars and minibuses, coming into Bryn Estyn. And doing the same
:03:06. > :03:10.thing, to be honest. Allegations that a Conservative politician from
:03:10. > :03:14.the Thatcher era was one of the abuses today forced the Prime
:03:14. > :03:18.Minister to act. Even though David Cameron is 4000 miles away from
:03:18. > :03:22.Downing Street on a trip to the Gulf. I will be asking the senior
:03:22. > :03:26.independent figure to lead an urgent investigation into whether
:03:26. > :03:31.the original inquiry was properly constituted and properly did its
:03:31. > :03:34.job, and to report urgently to the Government. Downing Street on our
:03:34. > :03:38.looking for a judge to look into the work of this former judge, the
:03:38. > :03:44.late Sir Ronald Waterhouse, whose report into allegations of abuse in
:03:44. > :03:47.homes across Wales was published in 2000. What convinced to Number 10
:03:47. > :03:52.to act was suggestions that the original inquiry failed to
:03:52. > :04:01.investigate child abuse allegations simply because the abuse took place
:04:01. > :04:07.outside children's homes. That and suggestions that the inquiry had
:04:07. > :04:10.excluded allegations of named public figures. There were also
:04:10. > :04:14.allegations aired on last Friday's news that by one of the original
:04:14. > :04:18.victims of abuse. Tonight he welcomed the Prime Minister's
:04:18. > :04:20.announcement but said it did not go far enough. I welcomed the
:04:21. > :04:25.announcement as long as there is an inquiry into the abuse that took
:04:25. > :04:28.place. There is no point in an inquiry into the inquiry. It was
:04:28. > :04:33.clear that it did not go far enough and covered up a lot of the abuse
:04:33. > :04:35.and that is what we should be looking at, the abuse itself.
:04:35. > :04:40.MP who first challenged the Prime Minister to launch an investigation
:04:40. > :04:43.into a paedophile ring has gone further tonight in a letter.
:04:43. > :04:47.Labour's Tom Watson tells David Cameron that he has heard an
:04:47. > :04:50.allegation about another political figure and says that he needs to
:04:50. > :04:54.order a special police investigation, outside the affected
:04:54. > :04:58.forces, with proper resources to review all relevant police files
:04:58. > :05:02.and those are the intelligence services. What happened here
:05:03. > :05:08.decades ago still dramatises the victims. Now it is raising
:05:08. > :05:12.uncomfortable questions for the police, politicians, and those
:05:12. > :05:16.meant to uncover the truth. Let go live to Downing Street and speak to
:05:16. > :05:21.Nick Robinson. The Prime Minister is keen to be seen to be taking
:05:21. > :05:25.action. That is right. That is one of the consequences of the scandal
:05:25. > :05:28.surrounding Jimmy Savile. Nobody in authority can afford not to listen
:05:28. > :05:35.to victims of abuse who say that their stories have not been
:05:35. > :05:40.properly listened to in the first place. Add to that, these
:05:40. > :05:44.allegations concern a politician, albeit one no longer frontline
:05:44. > :05:47.politics in any way, and that the original inquiry into the abuse was
:05:47. > :05:52.set up by the last Conservative Government, William Hague to be
:05:52. > :05:57.precise when he was Welsh Secretary, and you can see why there is
:05:57. > :06:00.political concern. William Hague is out of the country tonight. His
:06:00. > :06:04.aides so that nobody raise any concerns about the inquiry that he
:06:04. > :06:08.originally set up at the time or in the two-and-a-half years that it
:06:08. > :06:11.was doing its work under the last Labour Government. What we have
:06:11. > :06:16.seen tonight is this. The Government is, let's be frank,
:06:16. > :06:22.trying to learn from mistakes made by the BBC. Don't act after people
:06:22. > :06:25.demand it. Try and act first. you.
:06:25. > :06:28.I will be back later in the programme, but now on the eve of
:06:28. > :06:35.the US election, let's go to Huw Edwards in Washington.
:06:35. > :06:41.Thank you. Welcome to Washington, on the eve of polling date in one
:06:41. > :06:46.of the closest presidential campaigns in recent years. Obama
:06:46. > :06:50.and Romney of covering hundreds of miles today, including pivotal
:06:50. > :06:55.states like Ohio, which could hold the keys to the White House. It
:06:55. > :06:59.could even be a dead heat. Mark Mardell has the latest on the
:06:59. > :07:04.President's campaign from Madison, Wisconsin. Win or lose, it is the
:07:04. > :07:07.last time he will campaign to save his job. He has criss-crossed a
:07:07. > :07:11.disenchanted nation, travelling 8000 miles in three days, cajoling
:07:11. > :07:15.voters into giving him another chance. Bruce Springsteen joined
:07:15. > :07:18.the final push and he adds more than simple star power with his
:07:18. > :07:27.songs of the shattered American dreams of the American working
:07:27. > :07:29.class. # I am a man and I believe in the
:07:30. > :07:34.promised land. He defended the President and
:07:34. > :07:38.explained why that land has proved so hard to reach. I am here today
:07:38. > :07:43.because I have lived long enough to know that the future is rarely a
:07:43. > :07:52.tide rushing in. It is often a slow march, inch by inch, day after a
:07:52. > :07:56.long day. We are in the middle of one of those long days right now.
:07:56. > :08:01.Barack Obama needs voters to embrace that explanation, it is not
:08:01. > :08:06.that he failed but that change is so very hard. He looks exhausted,
:08:06. > :08:11.boggart, determined. We will win this election. We will finish what
:08:11. > :08:14.we started. We will renew the bonds that bind us together, reaffirm the
:08:14. > :08:19.spirit that makes the United States of America the greatest nation on
:08:19. > :08:23.earth. God bless you. The thrust of this whole long campaign has been
:08:23. > :08:27.about protecting the President's project, not allowing America to go
:08:27. > :08:31.backwards, as he would have it. Now some friends have criticised him
:08:31. > :08:36.for having no big ideas this time, but he has tried to make it about
:08:36. > :08:40.the choice about what sort of America people want, rather than
:08:40. > :08:45.specific policies. But we do know some of his plans. Taxes would rise
:08:45. > :08:48.for the riches. He would carry on spending on things like education
:08:48. > :08:53.and energy and he has promised to bring home troops from Afghanistan
:08:53. > :08:56.by 2014. The time for pledges has passed. The President is now
:08:56. > :09:00.straining to turn supported into actual voters and his team seemed
:09:00. > :09:04.to be relaxed. I feel very good about where we are. I feel
:09:04. > :09:08.confident. We have to work harder than the other side for another day
:09:08. > :09:12.and a half and we will be in great shape. The work of rebuilding the
:09:12. > :09:18.coalition that propelled the President to power is at an end.
:09:18. > :09:23.The job now is to nag and drag the people to the polls.
:09:23. > :09:27.There has been an equally breathless pace on the Romney
:09:27. > :09:31.campaign. He has been in Florida, another swing state without which
:09:31. > :09:34.he is unlikely to build enough support to take the White House.
:09:34. > :09:39.Ian Pannell is travelling with the Romney team and he reports from
:09:39. > :09:45.Sanford in Florida. He is the man who would be President, the
:09:45. > :09:49.Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. Like his opponent, he has amassed
:09:49. > :09:54.countless air miles chasing every last vote. He is in those parts of
:09:54. > :09:58.America that could tip the balance in his favour. Today his supporters
:09:58. > :10:03.gathered for one last rally to wave the flag and cheer their man.
:10:03. > :10:07.extremely hopeful. I love my country. I hope it gets that
:10:07. > :10:12.President that it deserves. It is a wake-up call for America. I believe
:10:12. > :10:16.if we do not turn things around now, our children will suffer and their
:10:16. > :10:21.children. It has been a bruising contest in an increasingly divided
:10:21. > :10:25.nation, an election fuelled by one question above all: who has the
:10:25. > :10:28.strongest plan for the economy? What have the climate be like?
:10:28. > :10:34.difficult. Money is tight and people do not want to buy things
:10:34. > :10:39.they do not necessarily need. next President of the United States,
:10:39. > :10:43.Mitt Romney! This is Mitt Romney's second run at the presidency. Even
:10:43. > :10:47.his father ran for the White House and he has used millions of dollars
:10:47. > :10:51.of his own wealth to try and fulfil what must seem to him like his
:10:52. > :10:56.destiny. His record speaks to a moderate Republican, but in this
:10:56. > :11:00.campaign he has embraced more conservative policies, leaving some
:11:00. > :11:05.to wonder who is the real Mitt Romney. The door to a brighter
:11:05. > :11:11.future is open, it is waiting for us. I need your vote, I need your
:11:11. > :11:17.help. If he wins, these are the pledges that Mitt Romney has made.
:11:17. > :11:20.To cut income tax and create 12 million new jobs. The appeal Barack
:11:20. > :11:25.Obama's health care law. And a promise not to cut military
:11:25. > :11:30.spending. In truth, we know how most states are likely to vote
:11:30. > :11:34.tomorrow. For example, history would indicate that California will
:11:34. > :11:39.go to the Democrat and Texas to the Republicans. The outcome of this
:11:39. > :11:43.election will in fact be decided in just a handful of states. This has
:11:43. > :11:47.been of the most extensive and expensive election in history. The
:11:47. > :11:55.Romney campaign has probably done all it can to secure victory. Now
:11:55. > :11:59.America must decide if he is the right man to lead the country.
:11:59. > :12:05.Well, the latest national polls have been suggesting a dead heat.
:12:05. > :12:08.Surveys in some of the key states like Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio,
:12:08. > :12:12.suggest that Barack Obama might have a slim lead, but the final
:12:12. > :12:17.result will depend on the precise workings of the US electoral system,
:12:17. > :12:23.as Jeremy Vine explains. Welcome to our election situation
:12:23. > :12:28.room. This is the map as the last election are left America. Decided
:12:28. > :12:31.by Annette or college votes. Each state has a certain number of them
:12:31. > :12:36.according to its population size and the winner of the college votes
:12:36. > :12:42.takes the election, which Barack Obama did last time. It means that
:12:42. > :12:46.this result comes down to a handful of states, Colorado and Ohio and
:12:46. > :12:52.Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. Mitt Romney really needs
:12:52. > :12:56.to get those states back for the Republicans. Some, if not all of
:12:56. > :13:00.them. What are the opinion polls saying? At the start of the
:13:01. > :13:05.campaign, it was not very tight. Obama was ahead with Romney
:13:05. > :13:10.struggling. The crucial date is right here, October 3rd, the first
:13:10. > :13:14.debate. Suddenly Romney is back in contention and it stays very tight
:13:14. > :13:18.until the end. That does not mean it will necessarily be a very close
:13:18. > :13:23.result because it all depends on those states that I showed you. My
:13:24. > :13:28.goodness, what an exciting election. For the latest on the two campaigns
:13:28. > :13:34.tonight in the closing stages, Mark Mardell is in Wisconsin and Ian
:13:34. > :13:44.Pannell is in Florida. What is your sense of the campaign with just
:13:44. > :13:45.
:13:45. > :13:49.I think President Obama's camp is fairly positive. I do not detect
:13:49. > :13:54.any nervousness and they will be buoyed up by an opinion poll by ABC
:13:54. > :13:58.television, just released, which puts the President ahead by three
:13:58. > :14:03.points. It does seem to be going in his direction, as many do in a
:14:03. > :14:08.swing states, but honestly, nobody knows how this will turn out. Maybe
:14:08. > :14:12.the most important speeches today were not the soaring rhetoric by
:14:12. > :14:17.the President but by those local officials, local people, saying to
:14:17. > :14:23.the crowd, go and vote tomorrow and when you have voted, get your
:14:23. > :14:29.friends to vote. That is the game now. To get people who are perhaps
:14:29. > :14:36.a bit reluctant to turn out. Mark, thank you. Let's go from
:14:36. > :14:41.Wisconsin to Florida. How do you gauge the mood in the Romley Camp?
:14:41. > :14:48.-- Romley? There is a lot of hope and optimism.
:14:48. > :14:53.What you detect is a hunger for change and that challenge as Mark
:14:53. > :14:58.has suggested is to get the supporters out to the polls, and
:14:58. > :15:02.you detect a sense of urgency. They are appealing for not just due to
:15:02. > :15:07.go and vote but your friends and family and neighbours. It is a
:15:07. > :15:12.numbers game. Mitt Romney appeals to people's pockets as well as
:15:12. > :15:17.their pay druidism. Above all, it has been about the economy -- as
:15:17. > :15:20.well as their patriotism. He is trying to convince people he can
:15:20. > :15:30.run the country because of his business expertise, but the opinion
:15:30. > :15:32.
:15:32. > :15:38.polls look like a tie. The truth is, Mitt Romney has been more steep
:15:38. > :15:41.hill to climb and the president has more parts to victory than his
:15:41. > :15:46.opponent. The campaign isn't dominating all
:15:46. > :15:49.the headlines here. A week after the havoc caused by Superstorm
:15:50. > :15:53.Sandy, there are a million homes on the east coast still waiting for
:15:53. > :15:56.their power supply to be restored. And there are growing concerns that
:15:56. > :15:59.tens of thousands of people need to be rehoused as temperatures fall
:15:59. > :16:04.sharply, especially at night. Matthew Price has the latest from
:16:05. > :16:11.New York. In tower block 105, there is no
:16:11. > :16:17.getting back to normal. Sandy plunged their lives into darkness
:16:17. > :16:22.and this is what Jason is left with. It is not habitable. No power, no
:16:22. > :16:27.heat. I do not know if the water is safe any more. Up on the fourth
:16:27. > :16:33.floor, they escaped the flooding. But not the uncertainty.
:16:33. > :16:39.You have got a national election tomorrow. Yeah. I usually vote
:16:39. > :16:44.downstairs in the building. I have no idea where I am supposed to go.
:16:44. > :16:49.Where indeed, when this is that you from the balcony? The clean-up has
:16:49. > :16:53.barely begun. Officials say New York is recovering. That is not how
:16:53. > :16:59.this woman sees it. No heat, no nothing, so we are just walking
:16:59. > :17:03.away from the house right now. one violent act, the storm lifted
:17:03. > :17:08.up the boardwalk and dropped it in the community pool. 400 of
:17:08. > :17:11.thousands of people along this coast line, the effects of
:17:11. > :17:16.Hurricane Sandy will be filed for months to come, and winter is fast
:17:16. > :17:21.approaching, and with temperatures set to plummet this weekend there
:17:21. > :17:26.are fears for those without heat and power. So as the Christmas
:17:26. > :17:30.shoppers fly in, down below they get anything they can. Clothes
:17:30. > :17:35.donated by the more fortunate to keep them warm. We are sleeping
:17:35. > :17:40.with clothes on. You know, I never pictured nothing like this could
:17:40. > :17:45.happen. At the epicentre of the clean-up, Manhattan itself is
:17:45. > :17:50.getting back to normal. The avenues bustle again, power has largely
:17:50. > :17:55.been restored. But this is a city frizzy vehicles are running on
:17:55. > :17:59.empty. The promised emergency fuel supplies are not getting to
:17:59. > :18:05.everyone, and at night, the thousands left with little huddle
:18:05. > :18:11.for warmth. There will be more from Washington
:18:11. > :18:14.a little later. And we will have a report from the key state of Ohio,
:18:15. > :18:17.where I have been talking to voters in one of the rural communities
:18:17. > :18:21.about their concerns. But now, back to Fiona.
:18:21. > :18:24.Let's look at some of the rest of the day's news.
:18:24. > :18:27.The Prime Minister has begun a three-day visit to the Middle East
:18:27. > :18:31.hoping to secure a lucrative contract to sell Typhoon jets. It
:18:31. > :18:33.could be worth more than six billion pounds. David Cameron will
:18:33. > :18:36.be performing a delicate balancing act, trying to boost British
:18:36. > :18:41.business on the one hand while raising the tricky issue of human
:18:41. > :18:47.rights with his hosts on the other. Frank Gardner is travelling with
:18:47. > :18:51.the Prime Minister. He sent this report from Abu Dhabi.
:18:51. > :18:56.Touching down in the Gulf for one of his more controversial overseas
:18:56. > :19:00.visits since taking office. David Cameron has come to the United Arab
:19:00. > :19:05.Emirates amid mounting criticism of its human rights record, yet he is
:19:05. > :19:09.hoping to sell up to 68-jets and forge a long-term strategic
:19:09. > :19:13.partnership he believes that Britain needs. David Cameron is
:19:13. > :19:17.looking to boost sales of the Typhoon jets that can be worth
:19:17. > :19:22.billions of pounds and thousands of British jobs, but both the UAE and
:19:22. > :19:26.Saudi Arabia had been criticised by human rights groups. Their role as
:19:26. > :19:31.reject this. They say privately that if Britain pushes too hard for
:19:31. > :19:36.democratic reform in the Gulf, they could take their business elsewhere.
:19:36. > :19:39.As the Prime Minister met some of the RAF serving personnel, defence
:19:39. > :19:44.officials said the base could develop into a military help for
:19:44. > :19:49.Britain, with Typhoons deployed here in a crisis, but the recent
:19:49. > :19:52.crisis in the Middle East have been mainly internal. So how will David
:19:53. > :19:58.Cameron balance his calls for more open society is that the
:19:58. > :20:02.suppression of political dissent? On human rights there are no no-go
:20:02. > :20:08.areas. We discussed all of these things. But we also show respect
:20:08. > :20:13.and friendship to a very old ally and partner. We have one of the
:20:13. > :20:18.strictest regimes for defence sales anywhere in the world. No such
:20:18. > :20:23.controversy about the Dubai Metro, built with British help. The Prime
:20:23. > :20:27.Minister is hoping this booming market will help Britain. Then it
:20:27. > :20:32.was onto Abu Dhabi and a hastily convened encounter with university
:20:32. > :20:38.students. He answer their questions about Syria and it runs. They told
:20:38. > :20:43.them about their education, their hopes dashed about Syria and Iran.
:20:43. > :20:48.In private, there are severe strains. International pressure
:20:48. > :20:52.over human rights is mounting, but the rulers in the Gulf say they
:20:52. > :20:56.will go at their own pace, and as one of them as props plus countries
:20:56. > :21:01.in the world, they do not want a lecture from Britain -- one of the
:21:01. > :21:03.most prosperous countries. A 50-year-old man has been jailed
:21:03. > :21:06.indefinitely for abducting and sexually assaulting a ten-year-old
:21:06. > :21:09.boy in the West Midlands last November. Michael Jackson, who was
:21:09. > :21:12.originally called Albert English, snatched the boy off the street in
:21:12. > :21:15.broad daylight and held him prisoner in a cupboard for three
:21:15. > :21:18.hours. Jackson also admitted abducting a ten-year-old girl in
:21:18. > :21:23.September last year. A stockbroker who defrauded people
:21:23. > :21:26.through a Ponzi pyramid scheme has been jailed for 13 years. 48-year-
:21:26. > :21:29.old Nicholas Levene from North London conned investors out of a
:21:30. > :21:39.total of �32 million. Rather than investing his client's money,
:21:40. > :21:40.
:21:40. > :21:45.Levene spent the funds on an extravagant lifestyle for himself.
:21:45. > :21:49.Back to Washington. Ask anyone where this presidential
:21:49. > :21:54.contest will be decided and they will pick any one of a handful of
:21:54. > :21:58.key states, which will make hefty contributions to the body that will
:21:58. > :22:04.decide the final outcome. One of those states is now being mentioned
:22:04. > :22:09.more than any other, so why travel to the US to find out more. -- so I
:22:09. > :22:13.travelled. I have driven two hours south of
:22:13. > :22:17.Columbus in Ohio, or one of the biggest swing states, and every
:22:17. > :22:23.single vote will count on election day, and I am heading for one of
:22:23. > :22:27.the smallest communities in Jackson County. It is called Oak Hill and
:22:27. > :22:32.in fact, I have a rather special reason for coming here. As it
:22:32. > :22:36.happens, this is a very Welsh corner of the USA, a village
:22:36. > :22:46.settled by Welsh farmers in the first half of the 19th century.
:22:46. > :22:48.
:22:48. > :22:56.Some of my ancestors among them. Their descendants are still here.
:22:56. > :23:00.Mr Lloyd? Q Edwards? Nice to see you. I think we are related! Jim
:23:00. > :23:05.Lloyd's mother was an Edwards and will certainly have plenty of
:23:05. > :23:10.family history to talk about, but this is a man who had seen 16
:23:10. > :23:19.presidents. He is keener to talk politics. The best President, I
:23:19. > :23:24.think, as it turned out, was Franklin D Roosevelt. Although I
:23:24. > :23:28.was a republican I think it was probably Franklin D Roosevelt.
:23:28. > :23:34.wants a President who will rebuild the economy but he does not think
:23:34. > :23:40.Obama is the man. The problem with this country is we have no jobs.
:23:40. > :23:47.Oak Hill, for instance. There is no jobs in Oak Hill. Young people have
:23:47. > :23:51.to move to the cities, or drive for miles to get to their jobs.
:23:52. > :23:55.unemployment in Oak Hill is about the state average. The old
:23:55. > :24:00.industries have disappeared, the works and found his built by
:24:00. > :24:05.migrants, so I came to the Welsh heritage museum to ask the mayor
:24:05. > :24:12.for his priorities. It feels like the eyes of the world are on Ohio
:24:12. > :24:16.right now. It feels how Ohio goes, so goes the election. We need jobs.
:24:16. > :24:19.We need to see a change in the economy. If you would speak to
:24:19. > :24:25.anybody off of the street, I believe that will be their concern,
:24:25. > :24:29.the economy and jobs. Finding Democrats in Oak Hill is not easy,
:24:29. > :24:34.but those we came across said that Obama was on the right track.
:24:34. > :24:38.have to look at the eight years before he came in. He came in when
:24:38. > :24:42.things were really bad and you cannot clean up a mess like that in
:24:42. > :24:48.four years. I am not saying everything he did was right, but in
:24:48. > :24:53.my heart, I think he was trying to do the best job he could. On the
:24:53. > :24:57.outskirts of Oak Hill, a remote Welsh chapel, plenty of evidence of
:24:57. > :25:02.the local heritage, and today's Edwards firmly in the Mitt Romney
:25:02. > :25:06.camp. He has what it takes to turn the country a rounds. He has been
:25:06. > :25:12.in business and I think he will help with the economy. That is what
:25:12. > :25:16.I am concerned with us. Pretty much the same reason. He was a
:25:16. > :25:22.businessman, he will may be tried to straighten the economy out. I
:25:22. > :25:26.know it cannot be done in one term. But no desire to give Obama a
:25:26. > :25:30.second term. That is the view in rural Ohio but this is a deeply
:25:30. > :25:35.divided state in closest of presidential races.
:25:35. > :25:38.The view from Jackson County, Ohio. And for a final word ahead of
:25:38. > :25:43.polling day, Mark Mardell joins me from Wisconsin.
:25:43. > :25:48.We have had time and again about a divided nation. How divided his
:25:48. > :25:51.America according to your assessment of the campaign?
:25:52. > :25:57.Some people viciously dislike President Obama, not for what he
:25:57. > :26:00.has done but for what he stands for, the way that America is changing.
:26:00. > :26:04.Part of the reason is that there has never been the Grand bargain
:26:04. > :26:08.between left and right that we have had in Britain and Europe. Some
:26:08. > :26:12.Republicans want to really reduce the role of the state to almost
:26:12. > :26:18.nothing and allow the individual states to do that work, and beyond
:26:18. > :26:23.that, there is two Americans in terms of who votes for the parties.
:26:23. > :26:27.Generalisations are just that, but in the main, Republicans are white
:26:27. > :26:33.and rural and elderly, and Democrats are younger and ethnic,