Biden Tells Crowd, 'We Need Ohio' to Win LAKEWOOD, Ohio - On the last day he was to campaign in the state that might decide the election, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called for a return to an earlier bipartisan era - but warned that Mitt Romney was not the man to get there - and exhorted more than a thousand supporters at a high school gymnasium near Cleveland to turn out to vote on Tuesday because "we need Ohio, we need you. We win Ohio, we win this election. Mr. Biden was expected to later travel to Fremont, southeast of Toledo, and Lancaster, near Columbus, before flying to Washington so that he could spend a final day campaigning in Virginia on Monday and then vote in his home state of Delaware on Tuesday. But the outcome of the race may ride on turnout in Ohio, where Mr. Biden told supporters on Sunday that the Romney-Ryan ticket was stuck in the 1950s or 1960s on women's issues. "As hard as they try, they can't bring themselves to climb into the 21st century," he said. And in a play on one of the main arguments of the Republican campaign - that the Obama administration favors a big brother approach to government that is too expensive - Mr. Biden argued that something like the opposite was actually true: A Romney administration, he suggested, would usher in a plutocracy run by moneyed elites dictating what they think is best for Middle America. "I think they do not have confidence in the average American," Mr. Biden said of the Republican nominees. They somehow think that everything has to be run from the top down, the people with the most power, the people with the most money. Not because they think they are bad, but they think that's what has to be done in order to be able to run this country. The vice president hit on many of the themes that have dominated his campaign stump speeches in the closing weeks, like what he characterizes as Mr. Romney's "shameless" fiscal and budget policies in the service of tax cuts for the wealthy. He also reminded the crowd of Mr. Romney's secretly recorded statement that there are "47 percent" of Americans who "are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them." He also praised President Obama's support of the $80 billion auto company bailout, which is popular in Ohio. Mr. Biden slipped up in describing a Romney campaign advertisement about the bailout, mistakenly saying the commercial had attacked "President Clinton." Mr. Biden suggested that he yearned for a time when Republicans and Democrats worked together more easily in Washington, citing Republican leaders including former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senators Richard G. Lugar of Indiana and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, both of whom are leaving the Senate; and former Senators Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming and Bob Dole of Kansas. "It used to work," Mr. Biden said. When this election is over, we've got to get back to doing it again. But he said Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan appeared committed to turning everything they could to their political advantage. "I've never met two guys who are more negative about the country," he said.