claim: 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.
author: barack obama
evidence_1: jun 7, 2012 ... the ad states that job creation in massachusetts “fell” to 47th under romney ... it  was 47th for the whole of his four-year tenure, but it was improving, not declining,  when he left ... lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average.  ... when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 ...
evidence_2: jun 5, 2012 ... a new obama campaign ad says massachusetts had one of the country's worst  economic records by the end of mitt romney's term as governor in 2007. ...  manufacturing jobs at "a rate twice the national average, and fell to 47th in job  creation." ... but like many states, it was also losing manufacturing jobs.
evidence_3: jun 5, 2012 ... 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. ... standing as 47th in the nation in job creation, its loss of 40,000  manufacturing jobs and the outsourcing of some jobs to india.
evidence_4: jun 4, 2012 ... “when mitt romney was governor, massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing  jobs,” the narrator says. “and fell to forty-seventh in job creation. ... compare the  4.7 percent unemployment rate mitt romney achieved in massachusetts to  president obama's weak ... herman cain to host a national radio show ...
evidence_5: unemployment falls to lowest rate in four years .... when the economic crisis  erupted in greece and the bottom fell out of the .... presidential candidate mitt  romney's four years as governor, challenging the notion that ... lost 40,000  manufacturing jobs at "a rate twice the national average, and fell to 47th in job  creation." ...