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Showing Original Post only (View all)Schadenfreude!! "Jobs report brings down debate high in Romney camp" [View all]
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press
Updated 3:02 p.m., Friday, October 5, 2012
ABINGDON, Va. (AP) The cheering stopped on Mitt Romney's campaign plane Friday morning.
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The euphoria ended after the morning report that the nation's unemployment rate had dropped to 7.8 percent, its lowest level in Obama's presidency. Romney and his team sat stone-faced and quiet on the flight to Virginia's coal country, taking in the good news for the country that's bad news for their political prospects.
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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Jobs-report-brings-down-debate-high-in-Romney-camp-3921946.php#ixzz28TDnuBqt
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Schadenfreude!! "Jobs report brings down debate high in Romney camp" [View all]
ailsagirl
Oct 2012
OP
He may have been smiling, but an awful lot of people were very upset/angry. Yet another gaffe!
ailsagirl
Oct 2012
#39
Shouldn't this amazingly political reaction show people that nitt doesn't give a damn about jobs??
ailsagirl
Oct 2012
#3
Romney wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced as his campaign burned
MjolnirTime
Oct 2012
#10
It must especially piss them off because of all the Suppression they did in Congress
Cha
Oct 2012
#11
It says a lot that they would think lowering unemployment is a bad thing.
Bjorn Against
Oct 2012
#34
They WANT the people of this country to fall on harder times. It sickens me.
Arugula Latte
Oct 2012
#36