Obama And Romney Make Their Cases In Dueling ‘60 Minutes’ Interviews
Previewing the final six weeks until Election Day, the candidates for president traded jabs on “60 Minutes” in back-to-back interviews Sunday night.
The interviews presented a stark version of the campaign narrative as it has emerged over the summer. Mitt Romney spent much of his interview on the defensive over his tax rate, his refusal to discuss policy specifics and his stumble-prone campaign. Obama was asked to defend an economic record that’s included high unemployment, sluggish growth, unending gridlock in Washington as well as decreased enthusiasm for his candidacy after one term in the White House.
In Romney’s interview, which aired first, he told Scott Pelley that a vote for Obama is a vote for higher deficits and continued economic woes. But most of the talk was about Romney and the stories that have been swirling around the Republican nominee for weeks. Though the piece was recorded before Romney released his final 2011 tax returns, Romney’s taxes were a central focus. He called the 14 percent he paid on his investment income in 2010 “a low rate,” though he said it was fair for his type of income to be subject to far lower taxes than an average American family.
“Yeah, I think it’s the right way to encourage economic growth, to get people to invest, to start businesses, to put people to work,” Romney said.
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