The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Mitt Romney campaign says job growth in Massachusetts accelerated as gubernatorial term went on

Both presidential campaigns are using job statistics to attack each other. President Barack Obama and his allies have spent months criticizing Mitt Romney’s job-creation record as governor of Massachusetts. Now, Romney and his surrogates are arguing that job creation in Massachusetts actually improved on Romney’s watch. So who’s right? We’ll start by looking at a claim that senior Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom made on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on June 3, 2012. "If you throw D.C. into the mix," Fehrnstrom said, "we were 51 out of 51 (in ...

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