[JavaJumpy]

Is it true that Romney’s company moved manufacturing jobs out of Ohio? If true, they will have to have damage control to lure the blue collar Dems there who may cross over.

[ConservativeMan55]

Romney’s Dad brought lots of blue collar jobs to Michigan.

[Zevonismymuse]

If true, they will have to have damage control to lure the blue collar Dems there who may cross over.

I would find out if it were true, and what the circumstances were, before I spread the rumor.

[editor-surveyor]

"Is it true that Romney’s company moved manufacturing jobs out of Ohio?"

Probably; I don't think that there could be many companies that didn't move jobs out of Slohio.

[curiosity]

While Mitt's tenure as CEO of Bain Capital can help McCain by giving him someone with credibility on economics, it also presents some liabilities. Bain specializes in corporate buyouts. There's nothing wrong with buyouts, and Bain created hundreds of billions of dollars in value by getting bloated firms to be run more efficiently, helping them get access to capital for growth, etc. Even though such activity is necessary and good for the economy, it sometimes involves layoffs or even shutting down firms that are performing so poorly that they can't be turned around. Hence a lot of the things Bain did have been unfairly demonized by the left as "corporate raiding."

Unfair as such demonization is, it does work. Even some Freepers fell for this leftist BS during the primary, denouncing Mitt as an evil "corporate raider."

It can be overcome. Mitt was effectively able to counter this tactic to demonize him as a corporate raider when he was running for governor. He was helped by the fact that Bain didn't have many portfolio companies in Massachusetts where they did layoffs helped; most of their layoffs were done in other states. I'm not sure which states those were in, but if they were in battleground states, it could be a problem.