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Obama Plays Hardball and Loses Favorability

"The president wants to make this a personal attack campaign; he's going after me as an individual.

Look, I'm an American, I love this country. I have experience in the economy that's going to help me get good jobs for Americans so we can be secure again."-- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in an interview with FOX News colleague Bill Hemmer.President Obama has adopted a new, tough-guy persona for the general election, but so far it doesn't seem to be paying off.Obama, stung for years by complaints from his political base that he was a pushover and facing a Republican rival clearly unafraid to throw punches, the president is trying to show some edge.The opening argument of the general election from Obama has been weeks of attack ads and harsh personal attacks on the character of GOP nominee Mitt Romney. On the stump, Obama has called out Romney by name and said that the former Massachusetts governor was too cruel to be president.Simultaneously, the administration is touting ...

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