Romney on Defense to gain those on the fence

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Author: Maeve Reston
Baltimore Sun, Tribune Newspapers

In this article from 1/13th, the author discusses how Romney has been responding to accusations from other SC frontrunners like Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich's accusations of how he and his firm Bain Capital are not for the people but for the profits. They accuse him of cutting thousands of jobs in many businesses the firm had control of not to help the companies but to gain more self profit. Romney saw that he had to stick up for himself and defended that Bain Cpital had also done things for companies creationg over 100,000 jobs for people. He said that the things he was forced to do were to keep certain businesses from failing completely. These accusations from his competitors could have a great impact on voters in SC because many of them could be people who lost those jobs and bitter feelings can lead to votes for Gingrich and Paul instead. It has taught me that Romney has had much power not just in politics for the republican party but also in national financial businesses as well.