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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney [Camp] Massively Downgrades...Number Of Jobs It Claims He Created From 100,000 To ‘Thousands’
Romney Campaign Massively Downgrades The Number Of Jobs It Claims He Created From 100,000 To Thousands
By Alex Seitz-Wald
In its effort to sell Mitt Romney as someone who understands the economy and knows how to create jobs, one of his campaigns 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.
BuzzFeeds Zeke Miller reports that, in the wake of the Obama campaigns new ad attacking Romneys record at Bain, the new Romney jobs math is significantly more modest than the old. This time, the campaign is asserting that Romney created a meager and vague thousands of jobs at Bain and tens of thousands of jobs as governor of Massachusetts.
This is nothing less than an admission from the Romney campaign that their 100,000 jobs claim was entirely bogus, and acceptance that Romney created vastly fewer jobs than he claimed he had just a few months ago. Its a welcome return to reality, but calls into question any piece of evidence the campaign puts forward. (In 1994, he claimed in an ad that he created 10,000 jobs at Bain.)
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And his assertion on his record as governor also fails to include the context that his state was 47th out of 50 on job creation.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/14/483676/romney-downgrades-bain-jobs/
By Alex Seitz-Wald
In its effort to sell Mitt Romney as someone who understands the economy and knows how to create jobs, one of his campaigns 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.
BuzzFeeds Zeke Miller reports that, in the wake of the Obama campaigns new ad attacking Romneys record at Bain, the new Romney jobs math is significantly more modest than the old. This time, the campaign is asserting that Romney created a meager and vague thousands of jobs at Bain and tens of thousands of jobs as governor of Massachusetts.
This is nothing less than an admission from the Romney campaign that their 100,000 jobs claim was entirely bogus, and acceptance that Romney created vastly fewer jobs than he claimed he had just a few months ago. Its a welcome return to reality, but calls into question any piece of evidence the campaign puts forward. (In 1994, he claimed in an ad that he created 10,000 jobs at Bain.)
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And his assertion on his record as governor also fails to include the context that his state was 47th out of 50 on job creation.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/14/483676/romney-downgrades-bain-jobs/
Next up: "some jobs."
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Romney [Camp] Massively Downgrades...Number Of Jobs It Claims He Created From 100,000 To ‘Thousands’ (Original Post)
ProSense
May 2012
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Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)1. please, oh please......
let the jobs he created be in growing the size of government while he was the governor.
It would be amazing.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)2. That would mean skid marks. LOL! n/t
malaise
(268,933 posts)4. THey were caught because of the 1994 ad
In 1994, he claimed in an ad that he created 10,000 jobs at Bain
Rmoney is a pathological LIAR who cannot remember his last set of lies.