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The Romney campaign released an ad juxtaposing President Obama's record with Mitt Romney's as governor of Massachusetts. The ad portrays Obama as someone who can't work with Congress while Mitt Romney worked with a Democratic legislature in his state to turn the economy around in four years.
"Some can't live up to their promises," the narrator says over an image of Obama. "Others find a way," the narrator says over an image of Romney.
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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/romney-touts-massachusetts-record-in-new-ad
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021524936
Pema Levy
Mitt Romney has been dogged by an unfortunate statistic for his entire campaign: When he was governor, Massachusetts ranked 47th in job creation. President Obamas campaign has ramped up the attack this week in response to Romneys assertion that he knows how to create jobs a fact he says is backed up by his record in the private sector. Sunday, Romneys campaign struck back with a new line of defense: Romney stepped into a serious situation and improved it.
If it sounds familiar, it should its the same line of reasoning that Obama is using to persuade voters to stick with his policies.
Twice on Sunday, Romneys advisers appeared on television armed with different numbers than the ones wielded by the Obama campaign. On ABCs This Week, Obamas deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter and top Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom duked it out over Romneys Massachusetts record.
Massachusetts did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation, Cutter said on ABCs This Week. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country.
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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/romney-massachusetts-record-job-creation-47th-fehrnstrom.php
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)porphyrian
(18,530 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)Did he do any such thing? I read that his state had lower employment after his term, and this was not after a major economic disruption of any kind.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)and adds 5.1 million jobs in a little under 4 years, President Obama has failed according to Romney. But when Romney takes over a state that was 36th in job creation during a free cash driven economic boom and takes that state to 46th in job creation during the same money driven economic boom, Romney some how inherited a bad situation . When a democrat comes in after Romney and takes the Massachusetts economy to one of the best at creating jobs during one of the most difficult economic environments in history, some how that democrat did that because Romney set the groundwork . What a complete crock of shit and if President Obama and Obama's research team let Romney and his people get a way with that gross lie, I don't know what to say.
BlueInPhilly
(870 posts)And he still sucked
woolldog
(8,791 posts)Baffles me.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)is that a new ad?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)They could run them again. They were great.
woolldog
(8,791 posts)Very good ads.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Spazito
(50,498 posts)it's clear how much the citizens of Massachusetts appreciate what he did!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)one of Mitt's home states that he losing.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)r. Here are five facts about the Massachusetts economy from Romneys 2003-2007 tenure:
1) Ranked 47th in job growth: Despite Romneys professed expertise in creating jobs, Massachusetts ranked 47th in job growth during his time as governor. The states total job growth was just 0.9 percent, well behind other high-wage, high-skill economies in New York (2.7), California (4.7), and North Carolina (7.6). The national average, meanwhile, was better than 5 percent.
2) Suffered the second-largest labor force decline in the nation: Only Louisiana, which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, saw a bigger decline in its labor force than Massachusetts during Romneys tenure as governor. The US Census Bureau estimated that between July 2002 and July 2006, 222,000 more residents left Massachusetts for other states than came to it. That decline largely explains the states decreasing unemployment rate (from 5.6 to 4.7 percent) while Romney was in office, according to Northeastern University economics professor Andrew Sum. At the same time, the nation as a whole added 8 million people to the labor force.
3) Lost 14 percent of its manufacturing jobs: Massachusetts lost 14 percent of its manufacturing jobs during Romneys time in office, according to Sum. The loss was double the rate that the nation as a whole lost manufacturing jobs. In 2004, Romney vetoed legislation that would have banned companies doing business with the state from outsourcing jobs to other countries.
Rest of article: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/938152/5_facts_about_the_massachusetts_economy_under_mitt_romney
amborin
(16,631 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)to ask, I suppose.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)then why didn't he run for re-election? Why is Obama leading Romney by far in Massachusetts? Could it be that the people of Massachusetts know him best, and they don't like what they see?