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The Battle Over Bain

The Battle Over Bain
In the face of President Obama's Bain attacks, Mitt Romney might want to try embracing jobs outsourcing as a fact of modern business.

Should Mitt Romney embrace outsourcing?

Mitt says he wasn't in charge when Bain Capital sent U.S. jobs abroad — but he might be wiser to defend the practice as a sound business strategy instead

 
The Battle Over Bain
Mitt Romney set up interviews on all five major networks recently to insist that he left Bain Capital in 1999 and not 2002.

Is Mitt Romney overreacting to Obama's Bain attacks?

Team Romney says it's not worried about President Obama's attacks on Bain Capital, but the campaign's actions tell a different story

 
The Battle Over Bain
Mitt Romney's "retroactive" explanation conjures up other instances of political gamesmanship: See Bill Clinton's contorted efforts to define the word "is."

How Romney 'retroactively retired' from Bain: 4 takeaways

Team Romney tries to explain how he was technically the CEO of Bain Capital for much longer than previously stated, but its story only further muddies the waters

 
The Battle Over Bain
If Team Obama can successfully link Mitt Romney to Bain after 1999, it can give its attack ads some serious leverage.

When Mitt Romney retired from Bain: 4 reasons why it matters

The Obama and Romney campaigns are squabbling over whether the GOP presidential candidate left his private equity firm in 1999 or three years later — but the timing truly is significant

 
The Battle Over Bain
Mitt Romney campaigns in Virginia on June 27: Romney has come under fire for possibly misrepresenting when exactly he left Bain Capital, and if reports are true, it could cause him some legal troubles.

Mitt Romney's 'big lie' on Bain: 6 ways it hurts him

Romney caps off a bad week with a big fight over whether he lied about when he left Bain Capital. Here's why such a small dispute matters so much

 
The Battle Over Bain
SEC filings contradict Mitt Romney's claim that he retired from Bain Capital in 1999, and suggest the GOP presidential candidate ran the company years later.

Did Mitt Romney lie about his tenure at Bain Capital?

The Boston Globe reports that Romney headed up the private equity firm until 2002 — three years longer than he's repeatedly claimed

 
The Battle Over Bain
President Obama leads Mitt Romney by four points in Florida, six in Pennsylvania, and nine in Ohio, according to Quinnipiac.

Obama's growing swing-state lead: Proof his Bain attacks work?

Americans are inching toward President Obama in several key battlegrounds, arguably justifying the president's assault on Mitt Romney as a job-killing outsourcer

 
The Battle Over Bain
The new ads are airing in Virginia, Ohio, and Iowa, and accuse Romney's Bain Capital companies of being "pioneers at shipping U.S. jobs overseas."

Obama's 'outsourcer-in-chief' attack: Will it hurt Mitt Romney?

The Obama campaign attacks Romney's Bain Capital record again, this time charging that Obama's Republican rival sent American jobs to low-wage China

 
The Battle Over Bain
Mitt Romney made a surprise visit to failed energy company Solyndra, which received a massive federal loan, to drive home his message that President Obama has misused taxpayer dollars.

Solyndra vs. Bain: Which 2012 attack is most effective?

President Obama and GOP rival Mitt Romney hammer each other over past investments — and in the end, neither emerges unscathed

 
The Battle Over Bain
Robert Shrum

Robert Shrum: The unnecessarily frenzied handwringing over Barack, Biden, and Bain

The press keeps seizing on the ethics and effectiveness of Bain attacks, and imagining Obama dumping Biden for Clinton. Enough of this nonsense

 
The Battle Over Bain
Mitt Romney during his 1994 Senate run: The GOP candidate worked at Bain Capital from 1984 until 1999, during which time the company helped Staples and Sports Authority get their starts.

4 good things Bain Capital did on Mitt Romney's watch

Democrats say the GOP presidential hopeful plundered companies and destroyed jobs. But what about Romney's private-equity successes?

 
The Battle Over Bain
The Left is eating up parallels between Batman's latest nemesis Bane and Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mitt Romney once ran.

Bane vs. Bain Capital: The Dark Knight Rises' Mitt Romney connection

The upcoming Batman flick's new villain and the controversial company Mitt founded share more than a similar-sounding name

 
The Battle Over Bain
Mitt Romney has yet to settle on a consistent message to rebut President Obama's claims that Bain Capital is a job-killing, profit-maximizing vehicle that benefits investors, not workers.

3 ways Mitt Romney can beat back attacks on Bain

While Team Obama hits Bain again and again, Romney struggles to develop a cogent strategy for neutralizing criticism of his former company

 
The Battle Over Bain
"This is not a distraction," President Obama said of Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital. "This is what this campaign is going to be about."

Will Obama's attacks on Bain Capital backfire?

The president is taking a lot of heat for his campaign's assault on the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, and even some Democratic allies are uneasy

 
The Battle Over Bain
Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital has become the go-to focus of Team Obama's attack ads.

Attacking Mitt Romney's Bain Capital: Fair game?

Obama is relentlessly going after the private equity firm founded by his GOP challenger, and some say the Democrat's punches are hitting below the belt

 
The Battle Over Bain
Robert Shrum

Robert Shrum: Bain is just chapter one in the Book of Romney

Republicans are desperate to declare Obama's attacks on Mitt's business background off-limits. But in the life of Romney, vulture capitalism is an inescapable theme

 

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