Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
For an election that is supposed to be about a huge ideological choice, President Obama’s campaign has spent an awful lot of time talking about things that don’t have much to do with that choice. First Obama started attacking Mitt Romney for laying off a bunch of workers at Bain Capital. Now he’s extending the theme by assailing Romney’s business career for outsourcing jobs. But of course, whatever the morality of Romney’s business career, it doesn’t really bear upon the central question of what Romney would do as president. You can...