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20 June 2012| last updated at 10:32PM

New Obama video drills into Romney record on taxes



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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign rolled out a new attack ad Wednesday seeking to dispel rival Mitt Romney’s image of a tax-slasher whose cuts benefited working-class Americans.

 

The president’s knock against the man challenging him for the White House  in November’s election is the latest salvo in a fierce web war that sees almost  daily releases of video clips attacking the candidates’ positions and seeking  to show who is more out of touch with middle-class voters.
 
The Democratic president’s team offered their ad called “Mosaic” which  drills into Romney’s record as governor of Massachusetts.
 
“As governor, Mitt Romney did cut taxes — on millionaires like himself.
 
But he raised taxes and fees on everyone else. 1.5 billion,” says the voiceover  on the ad.
 
“Over 1,000 fee hikes. On health care, on school bus rides, on milk, on  drivers licenses, on nursing homes, on lead poisoning prevention, on meat and  poultry inspection, on nurses,” according to the voiceover.
 
The ad is a continuation of the Obama campaign’s shift away from Romney’s  business record and towards his term as governor as they seek to convince  voters that Romney’s experience leading Massachusetts was a failure which left  the state worse off.
 
Team Obama also released an ad attacking Romney’s business record, and  describing the candidate as “a former corporate raider” whose firm, Bain  Capital, snatched up companies, laid off or outsourced workers and walked away  with millions in profits.
 
Romney’s campaign described the ad as “misleading” efforts “by the Obama  campaign to distract attention from the president’s failed policies that have  led to high unemployment and falling incomes.”
 
The Republicans struck back on Wednesday unveiling their own ads — in  English and Spanish — savaging Obama’s economic record and focusing on his  inability to improve conditions for Hispanic Americans, a key voting bloc.
 
“After four years of President Obama, our economy isn’t better,” said the  new ad by the Republican National Committee, as it headlined Hispanic  unemployment skyrocketing to 11 percent, far higher than the national average  of 8.2 percent.
 
“While Obama plays politics, Hispanics are suffering in the Obama economy,”  the ad said. -- AFP

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