The Obama campaign is up on air with a new ad Monday hitting Mitt Romney’s jobs record as governor of Massachusetts. The ad, called “We’ve Heard It All Before,” begins with Mitt Romney’s 2002 run for governor in which he promises he knows how to create jobs and contrasts those pronouncements with statistics about his years in office.
During Romney’s tenure, “Massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs,” the narrator says, “a rate twice the national average. And fell to 47th in job creation, fourth from the bottom.” The ad references a call center outsourced to India and says Romney gave tax breaks to “millionaires like himself” while raising taxes on the middle class.
The minute-long spot is going up in nine swing states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. On sunday, the Romney campaign defended Romney’s record as governor with a different set of job creation statistics.
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