Mitt Romney’s campaign people say it’s unfair to measure his job-creation record as governor of Massachusetts by the same standards they use in measuring Barack Obama’s job-creation record as president.
HERE are the four principal factors in this example of a double standard:
* Summarizing a jobs record using one overall figure: The Romney campaign says it’s fair to do this with Obama’s jobs record, but unfair to do the same thing with Romney’s jobs record.
* Inheriting a weak economy: The Romney campaign says this shouldn’t be taken into consideration when critiquing Obama, but must be taken into consideration ...
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