spending more than 12 million on an ad that started running this week in ten battle ground states. the claim, as governor romney had one of the worst records in the country. when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average. and fell to 47th in job creation. fourth from the bottom. instead of hiring workers from his own state, romney outsourced call center jobs to india, cut taxes for millionaires like himself and left the state 2.6 billion deeper in debt. paul: ouch. we re back with kim freeman and mary anastasia o grady also joins us, how effective is the ad. if you look at it on its own, it s devastating assuming that the electorate is going
started like this. i speak the language of business. i know how jobs are created. but it ended like this. one of the worst economic records in the country. when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average. and fell to 47th in job creation, fourth from the bottom. shannon: jobs are a key issue this election psychele and president obama s campaign says that mitt romney s record as governor of massachusetts proves he is not the one equipped to turn things around. the rnc, as you would expect, is firing back at the president s record. joining us to talk about it in a fair and balanced and maybe feisty debate. thank you for coming in today. thanks, shannon. shannon: topolitifact rates the claims of being 47th in massachusetts in jobs as accurate.
spending more than 12 million on an ad that started running this week in ten battle ground states. the claim, as governor romney had one of the worst records in the country. when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average. and fell to 47th in job creation. fourth from the bottom. instead of hiring workers from his own state, romney outsourced call center jobs to india, cut taxes for millionaires like himself and left the state 2.6 billion deeper in debt. paul: ouch. we re back with kim freeman and mary anastasia o grady also joins us, how effective is the ad. if you look at it on its own, it s devastating assuming
spending more than 12 million on an ad that started running this week in ten battle ground states. the claim, as governor romney had one of the worst records in the country. when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average. and fell to 47th in job creation. fourth from the bottom. instead of hiring workers from his own state, romney outsourced call center jobs to india, cut taxes for millionaires like himself and left the state 2.6 billion deeper in debt. paul: ouch. we re back with kim freeman and mary anastasia o grady also joins us, how effective is the ad. if you look at it on its own, it s devastating assuming that the electorate is going
the global markets reacted badly to that may jobs report. and the obama and romney campaigns seized on the numbers to make a sales pitch to voters. the dow jones was down for much of the day as the fallout continued from the weak may jobs report. friday s numbers were very far from where we want them to be, where the president wants them to be. but even those numbers, again, another month of private sector job creation, compare favorably by anyone s standards to losing 750,000 jobs in one month. reporter: the slow u.s. job growth has investors rattled and coincides with the perfect storm of bad economic news around the globe. china s economy is unexpectedly slowing down. and the debt crisis in europe is only worsening. that global environment across the three main engines of the global economy is looking a lot weaker than a month ago. reporter: one bright spot, oil prices are at their lowest levels in eight months. for americans that means less pain at the pump. but it s a slow