Barack Obama: “The Special Tribunal for Lebanon must be allowed to continue its work, free from interference and coercion.”

This race is going to be close. It could determine which party controls the Senate and whether Ohioans can count on the people in Washington to be fighting for you.

Use that hope to make a difference. Get involved.

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

If I had a blame pie for why politics is so polarised and why we're seeing a rise of populism in many places, it's because of that information that is going into our brains every day.