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"FacebookPinterestObama Isn\u2019t Working.png \n\nWasn\u2019t this campaign supposed to be all about jobs? Tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. the July employment numbers will be released, and they will probably be terrible. But as we wait for the usual fusillade of accusatory and defensive statements, let\u2019s just take a moment to reflect on the fact that for the last few weeks we\u2019ve heard almost nothing about jobs whatsoever.\n\nThe Romney tax-returns imbroglio erupted just a few days after the last round of employment numbers came out, handing the Obama campaign a golden opportunity to change the subject. That was directly followed, of course, by the Governor\u2019s gaffe-tastic foreign romp. And now that he\u2019s back? It appears that both campaigns have pivoted to messages about the middle class: Obama today released an ad claiming that Romney\u2019s tax plan will raise your tas while cutting his own, and the Romney camp is staging &amp;quot;strengthening the middle class&amp;quot; events around the country. Not that jobs and middle-class stability are unrelated, but still, it\u2019s a good reminder that the opinion data that the campaigns harvest from the battleground states may point toward something other than the slogans and shorthand we observers throw around all day. And it stands to reason that most voters\u2014the vast majority of whom do in fact have jobs\u2014would want to hear more about the candidates\u2019 plans for them, rather than for their unemployed neighbors.\n\nAt least until tomorrow morning.\n\n Read more on Death Race 2012\n\nThe Mittsplainer: An Alternate Theory of Mitt Romney\u2019s Gaffes\n\nDear Mitt: Please Pick Chris Christie\n\nHunger Reads: Obama Leads the Battlegrounds and the White House &amp;quot;Rolls&amp;quot; Pelosi\n\nThe Outsider Versus the Establishment: What Happened in Last Night\u2019s Texas Senate Race\n\n Follow Reid Cherlin on Twitter for more updates from the campaign trail."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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