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Obama for America

"Number One" +

:30 ad from June 12, 2012 run in CO, FL, IA, NC, NH, NV, OH, PA and VA. 

[Music note] Obama (voiceover): I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.

[Music] Male Announcer: When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts was number one.

 Number one in state debt.

$18 billion dollars in debt … more debt per person than any other state in the country.

At the same time, Massachusetts fell to forty-seventh in job creation...

One the worst economic records in the country.

First in debt. Forty-seventh in job creation. That’s Romney economics.

It didn’t work then. It won’t work now.

Notes: From the press release...

As governor, Mitt Romney added $2.6 billion to the state’s debt, leaving Massachusetts more than $18 billion in debt and number one in per person debt of any state in the country.  At the same time, Massachusetts plummeted to 47th out of 50 in job creation – one of the worst economic records across the nation.

As president, Romney has promised to do the same thing. He’ll explode the deficit with $5 trillion in tax breaks weighted to millionaires and billionaires that he refuses to say how he'll pay for and do nothing to grow our economy.  America can’t afford the same results. The bottom line is simple – Romney Economics didn’t work then, and it won’t work now. 

In stark contrast to Mitt Romney, the President has a balanced and detailed plan to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion dollars -- including $2 trillion in deficit reduction already signed into law -- while still making smart, responsible investments to strengthen the middle class and grow our economy over the long term.