Romney camp doubles down in Ohio

Despite a spate of headlines out of Ohio that push back on the notion that President Obama's campaign is trying to strip military members of voting rights in

the upcoming election, Mitt Romney's campaign is drilling down on the claim.

In a memo out earlier from counsel Katie Biber, Romney's camp insisted that the suit the Obama camp filed - to restore early in-person voting rights to every

Ohio citizen - is targeting military members.

The suit doesn't actually say this, and papers the campaign has filed called it "appropriate" to give three extra days to military members. The suit argues

against creating two classes of voters, using the legal term "arbitrary," which Romney's camp is seizing on to make its point.

"We disagree with the basic premise that it is arbitrary' and unconstitutional to give three extra days of in-person early voting to military voters and

their families, and believe it is a dangerous and offensive argument for President Obama and the DNC to make," she wrote.

"It is not only constitutional, but commendable that the Ohio legislature granted military voters and their families this accommodation.  It is despicable

for the Obama campaign to challenge Ohio’s lawful decision."

She noted that a group of more than a dozen military groups is opposing the suit, which is an extremely complicated case related to the end of what had been

early in-person voting broadly (which would likely help Obama) being turned into solely military early in-person voting (which is likely to help Romney).

The lawsuit is not trying to end it for military members, but make it exist for everyone.

The Obama campaign, meanwhile, sent out a string of headlines that undercut the Romney campaign's claim, with statements calling it "shameful." Vice

President Joe Biden made a similar statement to Time's Mark Halperin yesterday, who notes that this is a clear play to try to recreate some of the military

voting outrage that existed in 2000.

So Romney's campaign is making two separate points - arguing based on the brief that Obama doesn't agree military members deserve special privileges, while

also claiming the campaign is trying to deny voters rights. The suit isn't about subtracting, it's about adding.

But whether the Romney campaign succeeds in making this a cause that breaks through remains to be seen.