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Nate Silver's Florida Projections: Gingrich 66%, Romney 32%

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Nyet1/23/2012 12:16:50 am PST

And he has been corrected on it too:
factcheck.org

Romney also suggested that Obama has never had a job, but that’s clearly not true.

Romney, Aug. 11: He just doesn’t understand how the economy works, because he hasn’t lived in the real economy. I think in order to create jobs, it’s helpful to have had a job.

Normally, the criticism of Obama is that he has never managed a business — a point Romney made earlier this year when saying, “I like President Obama, but he doesn’t have a clue how jobs are created.” But in the Republican debate, Romney went too far in implying Obama hasn’t had a job.

Obama’s low-paid work as a community organizer with public housing residents in Chicago has been well-documented. The man who recruited Obama told U.S. News & World Report that he was hired at $10,000 a year, with another $2,000 allowance to get a car.

After graduating from law school, Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School and worked as a lawyer for the Chicago firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland. And, of course, Obama spent several years in public service as a state senator before becoming a U.S. senator and then president, the “job” for which Romney is now applying.