US election

The Speaker’s remarks came amid a steady stream of criticism from the Right
about the quality of Mr Romney’s campaign and his fumbled response to the US
Supreme Court’s approval of Mr Obama’s controversial health care law.

Despite Mr Obama holding only slim leads in the states likely to decide the
election – Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania – conservatives believe
that Mr Romney should be doing better given the country’s ongoing
unemployment crisis and sluggish economic recovery.

Jack Welch, the prominent conservative and former General Electric chief
executive, last week led a chorus of calls on Mr Romney to overhaul his team
of advisers, several of whom are longstanding allies from his days in
Massachusetts.

Mr Obama has repeatedly put Mr Romney on the back foot via a mixture of
surprise moves – endorsing gay marriage and giving partial amnesty to young
illegal migrants – and the unexpected backing of his signature legislative
achievement by the Court.

Over the weekend the Obama team opened a new front over the sharply divisive
issue of abortion, releasing an attack advertisement that Mr Romney’s stance.

The narrator of the television advertisement, which is being broadcast in
several key states, tells viewers that Mr Romney “backed a law that
outlaws all abortion – even in cases of rape and incest.” While
the Republican candidate did say in 2007 that there should be no abortion “at
all” in the US, during this campaign he has written that terminations
should be allowed in incest or rape cases. Mr Obama’s wide polling lead over
Mr Romney among women has narrowed slightly in recent weeks.

His campaign accused the President of lying about his stance in an attempt to
distract voters from the latest discouraging figure for job creation, which
on Friday showed only 80,000 new positions in June.

“It’s no coincidence that a day after a disastrous jobs report, the Obama
campaign drops viciously negative and false ads against Governor Romney
desperate to change the subject,” said a spokesman.

Mr Romney does favour overturning Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme
Court decision guaranteeing abortion rights for American women, instead
leaving regulation up to individual states.

Mr Obama leads Mr Romney nationally by 2.7 percentage points, according to a
RealClearPolitics average. He currently holds a 67 per cent chance of
winning, according to a FiveThirtyEight forecast.

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