Meanwhile Back at the Economy
I had said that while the election campaign is going on I would try and post twice a day: once on a historical matter and once on the election. I was remiss this weekend in posting on the election, so let's now take a look at what's going on in the campaign.
According to a PBS story, President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney are expected to shift the focus of the presidential campaign back to the economy this week after spending much of last week sparring over foreign policy following the attacks and unrest in Libya and Egypt.
The president will travel to Ohio today, where he plans to announce that the administration will challenge China at the World Trade Organization for illegally subsidizing exports in its autos and auto-parts sectors, contending the practice creates an unbalanced playing field for domestic manufacturers and leads to U.S. jobs being outsourced.
Governor Romney has been criticized for giving too little detail about his policy plans. His chief strategist Stuart Stevens told POLITICO that the campaign is rolling out a new and broader strategy to make the election a referendum on "status quo versus change."
Some recent polls show President Obama moving clearly ahead in important swing states like Ohio and the Romney campaign advisers concluded they had to make a painful course correction.
Another area of his campaign that Romney is addressing is with the Hispanic community. Today he is naking a pitch to Hispanic business leaders in Los Angeles and appearing on Spanish-speaking telveision. Romney plans to tell his audience that "no one is exempt from the pain of this economy, but the Hispanic community has been particularly hard hit. While national unemployment is 8.1 percent, Hispanic unemployment is over 10 percent. Over two million more Hispanics are living in poverty today than the day President Obama took office." Romney says that he will work with members of both political parties "to permanently fix" the country's immigration system.
The Obama campaign released a web video Monday ahead of Romney's remarks accusing him of trying to cover up his past positions in order to appeal to Latino voters. The two-minute video is a parody of the ABC show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and includes lines like "Can Romney cover up his belief in self-deportation with a bold new wallpaper choice?" Following is a YouTube video of that ad:
Romney meanwhile has issued a video about the impact of the debt for future generations:
Time will tell if the change in focus of the Romney campaign will bring about a change in the polls or not. Stay tuned.
According to a PBS story, President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney are expected to shift the focus of the presidential campaign back to the economy this week after spending much of last week sparring over foreign policy following the attacks and unrest in Libya and Egypt.
The president will travel to Ohio today, where he plans to announce that the administration will challenge China at the World Trade Organization for illegally subsidizing exports in its autos and auto-parts sectors, contending the practice creates an unbalanced playing field for domestic manufacturers and leads to U.S. jobs being outsourced.
Governor Romney has been criticized for giving too little detail about his policy plans. His chief strategist Stuart Stevens told POLITICO that the campaign is rolling out a new and broader strategy to make the election a referendum on "status quo versus change."
Some recent polls show President Obama moving clearly ahead in important swing states like Ohio and the Romney campaign advisers concluded they had to make a painful course correction.
Another area of his campaign that Romney is addressing is with the Hispanic community. Today he is naking a pitch to Hispanic business leaders in Los Angeles and appearing on Spanish-speaking telveision. Romney plans to tell his audience that "no one is exempt from the pain of this economy, but the Hispanic community has been particularly hard hit. While national unemployment is 8.1 percent, Hispanic unemployment is over 10 percent. Over two million more Hispanics are living in poverty today than the day President Obama took office." Romney says that he will work with members of both political parties "to permanently fix" the country's immigration system.
The Obama campaign released a web video Monday ahead of Romney's remarks accusing him of trying to cover up his past positions in order to appeal to Latino voters. The two-minute video is a parody of the ABC show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and includes lines like "Can Romney cover up his belief in self-deportation with a bold new wallpaper choice?" Following is a YouTube video of that ad:
Romney meanwhile has issued a video about the impact of the debt for future generations:
Time will tell if the change in focus of the Romney campaign will bring about a change in the polls or not. Stay tuned.