The Obama administration will launch a campaign-style tour of the industrial Midwest next week, dispatching much of the cabinet to key states to assures voters that the government is working to help people hurt by the decline of the U.S. auto industry.

The campaign will feature eight cabinet secretaries, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the administrator of the Small Business Administrator, the White House director Auto Recovery and Workers and an associate attorney general.
 
“At each event, they will discuss immediate ways the federal government is cutting through red tape to bring relief to auto communities and achieve long-term economic revitalization for our communities that depend on the auto and manufacturing industry,” the White House said.

The team will fan out to four states: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. Each is home to auto parts suppliers and this worried about the fates of Chrysler and General Motors.

Each also happens to be a key electoral college battleground in presidential elections. They all went for Obama in 2008, giving him their combined 58 electoral votes.