Obama campaign piles on Romney misery

President Barack Obama’s reelection team twisted the knife in Mitt Romney Monday, seeking to deepen the misery for the wounded Republican White House front-runner as crucial new tests loomed.

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina launched an assault on Romney, and gave his insurgent challenger Newt Gingrich a pass, in a clear sign the president’s brain trust would rather face the volatile former House speaker in November.

“The bottom line is this: the more voters learn about Romney, the more unfavorably they view him,” Messina said in a memo issued two days after Gingrich won the latest Republican nominating contest, in South Carolina.

Romney, the establishment Republican pick, awoke Monday with just over a week to slow Gingrich’s momentum ahead of the Florida primary on January 31, and Messina’s shot appeared to be an attempt to complicate his efforts.

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