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President Obama strikes at Mitt Romney on jobs

Steel mill ad shows strategy for fighting back on economy

By Tracy Jan

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 14, 2012

The Obama campaign Monday unleashed its first ad attacking Mitt Romney’s record as Bain Capital executive. The two-minute ad -- to begin running in the key battleground states of Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Virginia -- is coupled with a six-minute video featuring the story of GST Steel, a 105-year-old steel mill in Kansas City, Missouri that Bain purchased in 1993, saddled with debt, and shuttered eight years later after Romney and his partners reaped handsome profits.

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