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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: Paul Smith who wrote (6689)1/10/2012 6:07:33 AM
From: puborectalis  Read Replies (3) of 85487
 
Polls show that 50 percent of Christian evangelicals say they flat out won't vote for a Mormon and, indeed, that is why Santorum did so well among evangelicals in Iowa.

If the race ends up being a contest between Romney and Obama, at least at this point in the news cycle the battle will focus on who is the superior job creator.

Who is the more credible job creator? According to the fact-checkers, it is Obama. Romney's sympathetic PAC ran and reran and reran a TV ad in Iowa claiming that Romney helped create thousands of jobs while he ran the private equity firm Bain Capital, which he cofounded.

First, as CEO of a private equity firm, Romney's job was to return equity to investors, not to create jobs. Second, claims that thousands of jobs were created are difficult or impossible to prove. Bain Capital kept no records of job growth or job loss. So the trail goes cold long before the claim can be proven.

Obama's website declares that his administration has created 2.6 million jobs as of September. It correctly can be argued that many of these jobs did not last long or that the stimulus package was the wrong way to go about job creation. But the figures are unassailable. Therefore, advantage Obama.
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