Barack Obama: “What I am absolutely convinced of is that everybody here is committed to racial equality, has been historically.”

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.

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

Use that hope to make a difference. Get involved.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable