The US president has acknowledged that his country's struggling economy is making it a tough political season for his party's candidates.<br /><br />Obama made the remarks at a rally of Democratic Party supporters in Ohio state on Sunday.<br /><br />With the help of his wife, Michelle, he was trying to call up support from the young voters who backed him in 2008.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan reports from Columbus, Ohio.
