Obama camp: Romney benefitting from mass ignorance about Bain years
Obama camp: Romney benefitting from mass ignorance about Bain years
By Greg Sargent
As I’ve been noting here, a key danger for Obama is that swing voters appear open to the basic premise of his candidacy: that his experience turning around troubled companies has left him well equipped to turn around an entire country and its economy.
A recent Gallup poll found that 55% say the economy would get better over the next four years if Romney were elected, compared with 46% who say it would improve if Obama were re-elected — suggesting voters already may equate Romney’s business success with the economic competence they seem to want in a president.
On a conference call with reporters just now, I asked Obama campaign adviser Stephanie Cutter to respond to these numbers — and asked whether they are worrisome to the Obama team. Cutter acknowledged that the campaign has more work to do to persuade voters to see Romney’s business experience on the Obama campaign’s terms.
“I think what that shows is that nobody has a good understanding of what Romney’s economics are or what Romney’s business experience really was,” Cutter said, adding that in a “rare moment of candor” Romney recently admitted that his experience was “about wealth creation.”
“What we’re doing today and what we’re doing all week is explaining that wealth creation came at a great cost to middle class communities,” Cutter continued.
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