President Barack Obama, seeking to counter deep doubts about his
economic leadership, will ask voters on Thursday for more time to boost
growth while arguing that his Republican rival Mitt Romney would
resurrect policies that plunged the United States into crisis.
Obama will use a campaign speech in the battleground state of Ohio to try to bounce back from a series of recent setbacks.
These include an anemic jobs report and a misstep in which he seemed to play down the economy's woes by saying the private sector was "doing fine." He later told reporters he did not think the overall economy was fine.
The Democratic president, who risks losing the November 6 election if he cannot convince voters that his economic remedies are working, will take aim at Romney and congressional Republicans, who have rejected his ideas for spurring job growth.
"Governor Romney and his allies in Congress believe that if you simply take away regulations and cut taxes by trillions of dollars, the market will solve all our problems on its own," an Obama campaign official said.
"The president believes the economy grows not from the top down, but from the middle class up, and he has an economic plan to do that."
Obama's approval ratings have slipped to their lowest level since January - from 50 percent a month ago to 47 percent - because of deep economic worries, wiping out most of his lead in the White House race, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.
Obama will use a campaign speech in the battleground state of Ohio to try to bounce back from a series of recent setbacks.
These include an anemic jobs report and a misstep in which he seemed to play down the economy's woes by saying the private sector was "doing fine." He later told reporters he did not think the overall economy was fine.
The Democratic president, who risks losing the November 6 election if he cannot convince voters that his economic remedies are working, will take aim at Romney and congressional Republicans, who have rejected his ideas for spurring job growth.
"Governor Romney and his allies in Congress believe that if you simply take away regulations and cut taxes by trillions of dollars, the market will solve all our problems on its own," an Obama campaign official said.
"The president believes the economy grows not from the top down, but from the middle class up, and he has an economic plan to do that."
Obama's approval ratings have slipped to their lowest level since January - from 50 percent a month ago to 47 percent - because of deep economic worries, wiping out most of his lead in the White House race, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.
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