President Barack Obama coming to Akron's John S. Knight Center for rally August 1

AKRON - President Barack Obama is coming back to battleground Ohio next week, with an appearance in Akron and Mansfield Wednesday, according to his campaign.

Tickets for Obama's appearance at Akron's John S. Knight Center will be available beginning Monday at 9 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis.

You can get your tickets at one of three locations:

- John S. Knight Center, 77 E. Mill Street, Akron
- West Akron Obama for America field office, 1706 W. Market St., Akron
- Twinsburg OFA Office, 7995 Darrow Rd., Twinsburg

The Knight Center doors for the event will open at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. The president is slated to begin speaking around 4 p.m.

Obama will be discussing the economy, specifically focusing on the middle-class family.

The pace of campaign visits to Ohio has been busy. There has been heavy TV advertising across the swing state, with more than three months left before the general election.

The president made a two-day bus tour across northern Ohio in early July, followed by a July 16 rally in Cincinnati. His wife, Michelle, campaigned earlier this week in Columbus and Dayton.

Republican challenger Mitt Romney was in Toledo and Bowling Green in mid-July, after making a three-city bus tour in mid-June.