POLAND, Ohio - 21 News has learned new information about President Barack Obama's visit to the Mahoning Valley on Friday. Sources confirm his bus tour will include a stop in the Mahoning Valley.

The President is scheduled to speak at Dobbins Elementary School in Poland on Friday morning. That event is scheduled to begin at 10:45 a.m.

Obama's advance team and the Secret Service met with local police agencies Tuesday afternoon.

It's all part of President Obama's two-day, "Betting on America" bus tour that will travel through northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania.

The President is expected to talk to voters in the community about the choice they have this election, while pushing his economic agenda that promises to rebuild an economy built to last.

Bertram DeSouza, Vindicator columnist and a political analyst for WFMJ, says the Mahoning Valley will play a pivotal role in this election as it has in so many others.

DeSouza believes Obama's re-election campaign is in desperate need of revitalizing the enthusiasm the country experienced in 2008 and he'll make a number of visits to the Valley before November to get out the vote.

"In a race like this where it's going to be very close, I think the President needs at least 64 or 65 percent of the vote in addition to a huge turnout in order to overcome the kind of vote you're going to get in heavily Republican parts of the state. And I think that's where there's a big concern even though the campaign may not acknowledge it," DeSouza says.

Details for public access to the Dobbins Elementary School event on Friday have not been released by the campaign at this time.