"Cleveland rocks..."
...At least, that was president Barack Obama's goal on Sunday, when he and his vice-president, Joe Biden, headlined a Democratic rally in Ohio's second-largest city: to get the crowd fired up enough to head down the street from the arena and to cast a ballot in this year's midterm elections.
The crowd was perhaps one of the smallest of Obama's campaign season – about 8,000, according to Democratic party officials – but it was an exuberant crowd, and the president appeared to be feasting on its energy in the Wolstein Center.
Certainly when a small group of hecklers started screaming from the back of the arena, the crowd instantly broke out into chants of "Yes We Can!" But then, as security escorted the young men out of their seats, Obama chimed in: "I can’t hear you.
![[QODLink]](http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2012/2/12/2012212114913931580_16.jpg "The miracle generation")
