steub.jpgGus Chan, The Plain DealerBlue-collar towns in Southeast Ohio like Steubenville have traditionally been a reliable source of votes for Democrats, but this year both presidential campaigns are targeting the area.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio – Ask about presidential politics in this industrial corner of Appalachia, and the reactions range somewhere between anger and ambivalence.

Universally there is frustration.

You’ll hear it on the bar stools, at the barbershop and especially inside the union halls. And while both Democrats and Republicans are vigorously courting their

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