Congress Daily offers a great article regarding Ohio Senate candidate Rob Portman’s “jobs” campaign theme.

Here’s a snippet:

If Obama’s unmistakable one-word slogan last year was “Change,” Portman’s is “Jobs,” and that’s where he is focusing his campaign even as many Republicans rail against the spending of the Obama administration.

A national Democratic strategist fretted that that’s the model Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell used in his victory over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds, although Portman pointed out he was on that theme long before McDonnell’s campaign caught national attention.

His local focus is exemplified by his calls on Obama to follow through on his presidential campaign promise to provide federal loan assistance for the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, a town in south central Ohio.

Portman helped it win the competition for the plant after “an outdated uranium enrichment plant” was shut in 2000 with the loss of more than 1,000 jobs.

The new facility would create three times as many jobs, but the loan assistance has been delayed. In a recent opinion piece in the local Chillicothe Gazette, Portman gently prods Obama to keep his “promise made to Ohio last summer” on the loan so construction can resume and the town’s impending jobs boom doesn’t evaporate.