Since the economy is the most important thing on peoples mind,

[mary195149]

that is the issue that Obama is the weakest.
People are impressed on how Romney keeps repeating,
His record as a Business Man.
His record on Olympics
His record on Governor.
This is very impressive to low information voters and will be enough to vote for him on this issue alone.

On the next debate, Obama has to pound him on his true record, especially as governor.
*Out of 50 states - Mass was 47 in job creation
*He said he worked across the aisle, but majority were democrats and his veto record doesn't show he was working out a compromise.
*Massacusetts Residents were not impressed with his governorship and were not about to re-elect him.

What else?? There should be a list of things that Obama needs to hammer. This next debate is his last chance to bring up Romney's lies and that he is not a job creator as he has always said, unless you count all the jobs he created in China.

[tk2kewl]

1. his claim of balancing budgets as a business man is baloney

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021565067

Bain does nothing of the sort. They saddle companies with debt and bankrupt them. That is when they are ripe for the "harvest."

[SnohoDem]

2. The Olympics

Seems like they required a government bailout. Should be links around here somewhere.

[amborin]

3. more here on Romney's terrible record in Mass:

5 Facts About the Massachusetts Economy under Mitt Romney

1) Ranked 47th in job growth: Despite Romney’s professed expertise in creating jobs, Massachusetts ranked 47th in job growth during his time as governor. The state’s total job growth was just 0.9 percent, well behind other high-wage, high-skill economies in New York (2.7), California (4.7), and North Carolina (7.6). The national average, meanwhile, was better than 5 percent.

2) Suffered the second-largest labor force decline in the nation: Only Louisiana, which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, saw a bigger decline in its labor force than Massachusetts during Romney’s tenure as governor. The US Census Bureau estimated that between July 2002 and July 2006, 222,000 more residents left Massachusetts for other states than came to it. That decline largely explains the state’s decreasing unemployment rate (from 5.6 to 4.7 percent) while Romney was in office, according to Northeastern University economics professor Andrew Sum. At the same time, the nation as a whole added 8 million people to the labor force.

3) Lost 14 percent of its manufacturing jobs: Massachusetts lost 14 percent of its manufacturing jobs during Romney’s time in office, according to Sum. The loss was double the rate that the nation as a whole lost manufacturing jobs. In 2004, Romney vetoed legislation that would have banned companies doing business with the state from outsourcing jobs to other countries.

4) Experienced “below average” economic growth and was “often near the bottom”: “There was not one measure where the state did well under his term in office. We were below average and often near the bottom,” Sum told the Washington Post in February. As a result, the state was more comparable to Rust Belt states like Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio than it was to other high-tech economies it typically competes with.

5) Piled on more debt than any other state: Romney left Massachusetts residents with $10,504 in per capita bond debt, the highest of any state in the nation when he left office in 2007. The state ranked second in debt as a percentage of personal income. Romney regularly omits those statistics from his Massachusetts record, instead touting the fact that he balanced the state’s budget (he was constitutionally required to do so). He wouldn’t be much different as president: his proposed tax plan adds more than $10 trillion to the national debt.

from alternet.org

[mary195149]

4. Romney claims the schools in Mass were tops in the nation,

which I don't doubt, but how did the schools rank before he came into office and after he left? Is it because of him that the schools are doing so well?