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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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bigtree
(86,004 posts)I guess this will be a major defense of his (of his surrogates). I'll make a bet that it'll be quickly undone by reality and facts.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Obama inherited a bad situation, too...
rocktivity
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)Weld, Celllucci and Swift?
Ooops...
ProSense
(116,464 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)When it comes to Romney and his record, he inherited a bad situation. When you mention that his predecessors were Reshits, oh then we can't do what Obama does and mention what he inherited because that's dredging up the past. Incredibly, I'll bet the Romney campaign makes both arguments simultaneously, out of each side of their mouths.
swayne
(383 posts)The previous three Governors before Romney were ALL Republican.
PLEASE DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY WITH THIS!!
Pirate Smile
(27,617 posts)Party doing everything it could to sabotage the recovery and the President in any and every way - which Romney and Republicans refuse to acknowledge.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,750 posts)Initech
(100,090 posts)salparadise1000
(48 posts)when the President took office unemployment was rising sharply. Progress on jobs should not be measured from 1/20 since his policies were not in place yet. That same standard should be applied to Romney, I don't know what that does to those numbers, it all depends upon the direction of the Mass. economy when he took office.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)He's joking, right?