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Mon May 14, 2012, 01:07 PM May 2012

Romney Campaign Massively Downgrades Number Of Jobs It Claims He Created From 100,000 To ‘Thousands'

from Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/14/483676/romney-downgrades-bain-jobs/


" In its effort to sell Mitt Romney as someone who understands the economy and knows how to create jobs, one of his campaign’s early talking points was that he helped create 100,000 jobs during his tenure at Bain Capital. The campaign repeated the claim throughout the primary, despite a glaring lack of evidence to support it (even Sarah Palin doubted it).

Romney eventually stopped repeating the talking point, which advisers had difficulty defending under pressure, and now it seems Boston has completely Etch A Sketched the number and severely lowered the number of jobs Romney is supposed to have created at Bain."


read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/14/483676/romney-downgrades-bain-jobs/

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