Obama campaign to target Romney's record as governor
President Barack Obama's campaign plans to broaden its focus to Romney's time as Massachusetts governor, arguing his policies hurt the state.
The attacks have been part of a strategy to define Romney as out of touch with most Americans, the presumptive Republican nominee has been rising in recent polls, most of which show the race in a dead heat.
By broadening its attack to Romney's stint as chief executive of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007, the Obama campaign will make the case that Romney's economic philosophies have pervaded his career and would damage the country if he were to move into the White House.
Obama's campaign has highlighted Romney's Massachusetts record previously in e-mail messages to reporters.
Romney has emphasized his background as a business executive to suggest he is better placed than Obama, a Democrat, to boost U.S. job growth and accelerate the country's economic recovery.
Obama's campaign has focused on job losses at companies that Bain acquired, while steering clear from the success stories of companies it built up or saved - a side of Bain's corporate footprint Romney's campaign touts.
President Barack Obama cast his race against Republican Mitt Romney as a contest against a private- equity executive whose goal was maximizing profits, while the president’s job is to “figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot.”
Obama aimed at the heart of Romney’s campaign argument, saying there is a gulf between the skills and priorities needed in private enterprise and those in governing.
“If your main argument for how to grow the economy is, I knew how to make a lot of money for investors, then you’re missing what this job is about,” Obama told a news conference in Chicago yesterday.
Romney responded to Obama’s remarks, by saying they showed the president will “continue his attacks on the free- enterprise system.”
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