CLEVELAND (AP) — President Barack Obama said November’s election will give voters the chance to break a stalemate about America’s direction, declaring Thursday in a campaign speech in battleground Ohio that he and Republican Mitt Romney offer “two fundamentally different views” about how to grow the economy and create jobs.
Five months before the election, Obama sought to frame the choice for voters on the economy, telling about 1,500 supporters in Cleveland that Romney would join congressional Republicans in revisiting GOP policies of cutting taxes and gutting regulations. At one point, Obama specifically addressed skeptical voters and independents watching on television. “If you want to give the policies of the last decade another try, then you should vote for Mr. Romney,” Obama said.
