Ohio Canvassers Pitch the Opposition in Calls With the campaign entering its final hours, Mitt Romney's Ohio satellite offices can take on an echo-chamber air, with pumped-up staff members taking jabs at President Obama's missteps, his perceived policy failures and just about anything else negative about him that comes to mind. It keeps the adrenaline flowing, and doubtless eases the drudgery of hours of get-out-the-vote phone calls. But it can prove difficult to keep the adrenaline bottled up inside the office. At Mr. Romney's telephone bank in Lebanon, Ohio, just outside Cincinnati, the local campaign chairman, Greg Davis, was dialing numbers from a list of ostensibly pro-Republican households when, unexpectedly, he found an Obama supporter at the other end of the line. Undaunted, Mr. Davis started his pitch anyway. "Mitt Romney knows how to turn things around," he said. He's a leader. It went downhill from there. Pause. Do you really want more of the last four years? Long pause. Benghazi. He's trying to protect himself. Another pause. And now we've got $4-, $5-a-gallon gas. On it went, through oil exploration on federal lands, welfare, government waste, the national debt. And finally: "Good luck on your agenda and what you're doing with your country, and I'll go with mine. You, too. Look who's calling the kettle black. Have a nice day! Another canvasser giggled. "He gets all those calls," she said.