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Sun Oct 21, 2012, 05:40 PM Oct 2012

Romney Touts Massachusetts Record In New Ad (updated)

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Romney Touts Massachusetts Record In New Ad

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.

Watch:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/romney-touts-massachusetts-record-in-new-ad


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Romney Camp Defends Poor Jobs Record: He Inherited A Bad Situation

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 Obama’s campaign has ramped up the attack this week in response to Romney’s assertion that he knows how to create jobs — a fact he says is backed up by his record in the private sector. Sunday, Romney’s campaign struck back with a new line of defense: Romney stepped into a serious situation and improved it.

If it sounds familiar, it should — it’s the same line of reasoning that Obama is using to persuade voters to stick with his policies.

Twice on Sunday, Romney’s advisers appeared on television armed with different numbers than the ones wielded by the Obama campaign. On ABC’s “This Week,” Obama’s deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter and top Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom duked it out over Romney’s Massachusetts record.

Massachusetts “did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation,” Cutter said on ABC’s “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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surrealAmerican

(11,364 posts)
3. ..."turn the economy around"...?
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 05:54 PM
Oct 2012

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)
4. When President Obama inherits an economy that is in near depression,
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 06:02 PM
Oct 2012

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.

 

woolldog

(8,791 posts)
6. I don't understand why Obama hasn't focused more on attacking Romney's time as governor.
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 07:05 PM
Oct 2012

Baffles me.

Spazito

(50,498 posts)
8. Yeah, he did such a "good" job, President Obama is leading in Mass by double digits...
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 07:32 PM
Oct 2012

it's clear how much the citizens of Massachusetts appreciate what he did!

ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)
12. Seriously? somebody is lying......
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 08:43 PM
Oct 2012

r. Here are five facts about the Massachusetts economy from Romney’s 2003-2007 tenure:

1) Ranked 47th in job growth: Despite Romney’s professed expertise in creating jobs, Massachusetts ranked 47th in job growth during his time as governor. The state’s 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 Romney’s 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 state’s 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 Romney’s 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

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
16. If Rmoney was such a good governor for Massachusetts
Sun Oct 21, 2012, 09:04 PM
Oct 2012

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?

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