Romney coloca Obama em xeque

Tonight, I want to thank the people of Nevada. Once again, you have given me your vote of confidence. And this time, I intend to take it all the way to the White House!

Four years ago, candidate Obama came to Nevada, promising to help. But after he was elected, his help was telling people to skip coming here for conventions and meetings. Today, Nevada unemployment is over 12%, home values have plummeted, and Nevada's foreclosure rate is the highest in the nation. I’ve walked in Nevada neighborhoods, blighted by abandoned homes, where people wonder why Barack Obama failed them.

Mr. President, Nevada has had enough of your kind of help!

Three years ago, a newly elected President Obama told America that if Congress approved his plan to borrow nearly a trillion dollars, he would hold unemployment below 8%. It hasn’t been below 8% since.

This week he's been trying to take a bow for 8.3% unemployment. Not so fast, Mr. President. This is the 36th straight month with unemployment above the red line your own administration drew. And if you take into account all the people who are struggling for work or who have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15%.

Mitt Romney não precisou de esperar muito para partir para o ataque a Obama. Com a vitória no Nevada garantida muito facilmente, Romney aproveitou o discurso de vitória para cortar o momentum de Obama na economia. Os recentes números do desemprego e da produção industrial foram encarados como trunfos na recuperação da imagem de Obama, colocando directamente em causa a estratégia de Romney e do estado-maior do GOP que é: economia, economia e economia.

Com este discurso apontado directamente a Obama, Romney mostra que sabe qual é a direcção que quer para a sua campanha caso seja o nomeado republicano, mas acima de tudo demonstra que está sintonizado com a maioria do país que ainda sofre diariamente os efeitos de uma crise que não poupa ninguém.
Filipe Ferreira