Why isn't Obama connecting the dots of how Romney was BAD for the MA Economy as Governor

[boingboinh]

He was 47 out of 50 in job creation as governor...one of the worst in the country.
It still baffles me why Obama and his team refuse to connect the dots of Bain Captial and his governing -- how he has no interest in the people but his own (making money for himself).

Can someone wake up the Obama campaign and let them know about this OBVIOUS tactic because from what i see most voters just think Romney is a business man wh would be good for the economy (recall that polls show a big margin in his favor).

[serbbral]

1. @boingboinh

THIS!!!!!!!!! This is ONE of the things I was thinking about when I commented on Obama not pointing out things relevant to the economy. He had a GREAT second debate, but when Romney kept talking about his record in Mass., I kept thinking about that 47 in job creation and was thinking why Obama didn't bring it up. He could bring that up even on the stump, but all we hear is something silly like ROMNESIA.

[RBInMaine]

3. Romnesia is NOT silly and it is VIRAL now. It ATTACKS the MittTwit as the FLIPFLOPPER he is.

[newsboy]

5. It is not just MA everything is a flip 4 Mitt

Romnesia aliment Number 1: Mitt ‘I-balanced-the-budget’ winter Olympics was a massive $ 1.3 BILLION BAILOUT. Tea Baggers must love that..... oh that right they have contracted Romnesia

[ProSense]

14. You're really pushing hard against Romnesia, huh?

[Maximumnegro]

17. Somebody WAKE UP the Obama Campaign! LOL

Oh, the concern. It hurts.

[unblock]

2. because talking about the economy doesn't really help obama.

because people aren't happy with the economy, virtually any discussion on the topic helps rmoney.
as rmoney attacks, obama has to defend, and sure, as one defense point, he could bring up how sucky rmoney was for massachusetts.

but (a) most people blame "the" economy, period, on the president, despite the impact governors can have on their state's economy and despite the overstated impact the president has;
(b) rmoney can easily dismiss any attack by blaming it all on democrats -- it is massachusetts, after all, and its reputation is wildly liberal and therefore the much of the rest of the country (especially rmoney's base and swing voters) thinks it must but some screwed up commune so of course the economy sucks;
(c) rmoney can ridiculously easily pivot to the national economy which matters more to critical voters and for which rmoney has zero blame and the only person they can blame is obama.

finally, it's a perfectly logical and sensible argument, which is probably the most daming reason of all that it can't be effectively used in modern american politics.

[RBInMaine]

4. & Obama could say, " Deval Patrick is nearly leading the nation in job growth AND got re-elected."

RobMe would not even stand for re-election and is losing the state now by large margins. He left with a 34% job approval there.

Other Republican Governors like Bill Weld and Paul Celluci did much better. What's wrong with Mitt?

He should be using this line of attack.

[serbbral]

6. It's all about the ECONOMY

That's what people want to hear. Tearing Romney down just isn't working.Obama's done some good things to bring us out of such a bad economy. Sure, the economy is still bad, but it was worst overall. Tell us how or what he's going to do for the next four years to make things better. Romney is steady talking about the economy and you know what? It's working. No matter how Obama supporters keep talking about his lies or how he flip flops, his message is working, because he's talking about the ECONOMY and Obama is not. His flip floppiing doesn't seem to bother people. PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW HOW IS THIS ECONOMY GOING TO IMPROVE. I feel like the ship is sinking and a clue isn't becoming clear, until the end. Lay off Romnesia.Please catch the clue soon.

[unblock]

8. too late in the campaign for this, really. i agree with you in principle though.

i think the economy isn't nearly as bad today as republicans wish it were, and the obama campaign would have been well serve had it done more to rebut this attack earlier in the campaign. it was probably wise to keep quiet, though, in case the economy took a turn for the worse (the double-dip recession was feared). but now that the economy actually looks like it's improving, democrats are on much better footing.

but we're in that range where the economy isn't so weak republicans can win running on it, but not so strong that democrats can win running on it either.

in any event, it's rather late in the campaign to launch an initiative about obama being good for the economy. it's good and appropriate for him to defend his record, though, and he can cite some good recent numbers, e.g., in a debate context. but it is defensive.

[ProSense]

15. Romnesia

"I feel like the ship is sinking and a clue isn't becoming clear, until the end. Lay off Romnesia."

Romnesia: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251160776

Good stuff: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=162455

[clydefrand]

7. Has any person including the media ever been asked how

Mitt will create jobs?

Does he even know?

Does he plan to move all of our businesses to China or other countries?

[dorkzilla]

9. This is THE big question for me. How do they confidentially proclaim Rmoney "stronger"...

...on the economy if he WON'T EVEN FUCKING TELL US WHAT HE PLANS TO DO. He "won't" because he CAN'T.

[NCLefty]

10. They have people whose full time job it is to connect dots.

Trust me, if there's a dot, they've connected it and considered it, probably via "focus groups."

[VirginiaTarheel]

11. Why aren't they doing clips of Romney's shipping positions

Just clips of Romney saying one thi g I. Time juxtaposed against saying something different now with narrator saying he says anything and can't be trusted

[ProSense]

12. For those who missed it:

This was in April:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002609835

Romnesia: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251160776

From the debate, though energy-related, a great hit:

And when I hear Governor Romney say he’s a big coal guy — and keep in mind when — Governor, when you were governor of Massachusetts, you stood in front of a coal plant and pointed at it and said, this plant kills, and took great pride in shutting it down. And now suddenly you’re a big champion of coal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/us/politics/transcript-of-the-second-presidential-debate-in-hempstead-ny.html

Previous ads:

[John2]

13. The information is already out there

The information is already out there through the media and newspapers. Look at the endorsements Obama is getting. MSNBC has continuously been beating that horn. How many people do you think watch it? CNN and FOX want go near it but that is news on one candidate. This is why I add CNN to the bias category. Why want CNN do a story on sensata? This reveals they are hiding information negative to Romney but yet they go on a goose chase in Libya.

[LeftInTX]

16. Obama needs to put this in a TV ad

However, for voters to get the message it needs to be repeated. It needs to be simple. Romney is saying he's going to create 12 million jobs and balance the budget.

How hard is this to put these 5 points on a cue card for a 30 second ad.

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.

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.
3. Lost 14 percent of its manufacturing jobs:
4. Experienced “below average” economic growth and was “often near the bottom”: “

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.