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Live Video: Battlin' Barack vs. Mendacious Mitt, Round Two, Thread Two

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goddamnedfrank10/16/2012 6:58:05 pm PDT

Romney lying again about the President claiming 5.4% unemployment.

Romney says Obama “said by now [unemployment] would be down to 5.4 percent.” But Romney is referring to a speculative report issued at the beginning of Obama’s presidency containing projections — not promises. Those projections relied on prevailing economic models that quickly proved to have underestimated the depths of the recession at that time.