Obama attacks on Romney’s Mass. record ‘drowned out’ on Mitt’s home turf

With both campaigns stepping up efforts to define the opposing candidate’s economic record, the Obama campaign launched it attack on Romney’s home turf today.

But that first shot at Romney may have misfired when Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod tried to hold a press conference on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse pro-Romney and was “drowned out” by “hecklers yell(ing) ‘We Want Mitt!’ and ‘Broken Record!’ and held signs that said ‘Go Back to Chicago!'”

The press conference was coordinated with the release a Obama campaign video today attacking Romney’s economic record as governor.

The video features some of Massachusetts prominent mayors and politicians—all Democrats—who  were willing to go on record as saying Romney’s economic policies actually hurt the state, and many of them liken his message today as the same promises he made when running for governor in 2002.

The Obama campaign seeks to undermine Romney’s critique of the president’s handling of the economy, and wants to portray Romney’s record as a failed governor on economic matters.

The video claims that Massachusetts was 47^th overall out of 50 states in new job creation under Governor Romney and attacks for raising fees in lieu of raising taxes and for the high level of debt that he left the state with when he left office in 2007.

But Romney Campaign Spokesperson Amanda Henneberg fired back today issuing this statement challenging Obama’s own economic records: