GM is alive in Defiance, Ohio. But Obama?s hopes here may not be.

For more than 50 years, the economic fate of this tiny town in northwest Ohio has been inextricably linked to the health of General Motors, its largest employer.

And so when two local lawyers put up a billboard in the cornfield across from Defiance?s GM plant with a picture of the GM logo above the word ?alive? and a photo of Osama bin Laden above the word ?dead,? you might have expected nods of approval.

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