It's policy and personal: Romney hammered on taxes

Source: AP-Excite

By JULIE PACE

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats are growing increasingly confident that a two-pronged tax attack on Republican Mitt Romney - one part policy, one part personal - will help President Barack Obama lure pivotal support from middle class voters.

Led by Obama, the Democrats are going after Romney for seeking to protect tax cuts for the wealthy and for refusing to release more information on the taxes he pays on his personal fortune.

Democrats say both public and private polls suggest the double-barreled focus on taxes is giving Obama an edge in the race. The strategy also gives the president an avenue to campaign on the economy - the top issue for voters - while steering clear of talking about the nation's high unemployment.

A sign the strategy might be working: Romney said both campaigns would benefit if they agreed that "attacks based upon business or family or taxes or things of that nature - that this is just - this is diversion." Instead, he said in an interview with NBC News, he would prefer to have a setting in which he and Obama would only talk about issues and differences in their positions.

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In this Aug. 9, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Colorado Springs, Colo. Democrats are growing increasingly confident that a two-pronged tax attack on Republican Mitt Romney _ one part policy, one part politics _ could help President Barack Obama lure pivotal support from middle class voters _ and win a second term. Led by Obama, the Democrats are going after Romney for seeking to protect tax cuts for the wealthy and refusing to release more information on the taxes he pays on his multi-million dollar personal fortune. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)