Obama talks economy and jobs in Ohio, plus more to watch for Wednesday in politics

— -- President Barack Obama heads to two battlegrounds states Wednesday to talk about the key issue of the 2012 general election: the economy.

Obama will visit a job-training program at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, that he says would suffer cuts under the GOP budget that the House recently passed — and that Mitt Romney supports. He will then head to Michigan for a fundraiser. Tickets for the Michigan event: $10,000-per-person.

Romney also can be expected to have words about the economy while campaigning Wednesday in North Carolina.

Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul will be out on the trail. Gingrich will be in Pennsylvania and Delaware and Paul in Rhode Island. Callista Gingrich also will be in Rhode Island.

And then there is this: Congress is far from finished drilling into spending habits at the General Services Administrations. Two more hearings are scheduled over on the Senate side Wednesday. Got to be grueling week for the powers-that-be at the GSA.

And this: The Secret Service brothel scandal isn't going away any time soon, either. The agency announced Monday that it had stripped 11 agents tied to the scandal of their "top secret" clearance and seized their official identification and firearms. Then yesterday day the White House said Obama still has confidence in director Mark Sullivan. Wednesday is another day.

Sources: Yahoo! News reporter Rachel Rose Hartman and White House correspondent Olivier Knox, Associated Press.

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