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<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">The United Automobile Workers union, a primary beneficiary of President Obama’s decision to rescue domestic carmakers, is now trying to return the favor.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">As Mitt Romney prepared to deliver an economic address here on Friday declaring Mr. Obama’s three years in office a “failed presidency,” hundreds of union members gathered on the top level of a parking deck as a freezing drizzle fell.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">“Thank you, President Obama!” shouted the union’s president, Bob King. He gripped a bullhorn as he exhorted the crowd, “Everyone!” They roared back, “Thank you, President Obama!”</p>
<p style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">It was the beginning of an effort by the U.A.W. and others in the labor movement to put their vast political organizations into motion behind Mr. Obama, testing their power in a difficult economy after years of declining membership. This is an election that both parties say could turn on their ability to win over working-class voters in the industrial Midwest, where battlegrounds like Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin could determine the outcome.</p>
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