Contest heating up as candidates Romney and Obama accused of outsourcing jobs as economic misplay

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Romney lays into ‘outsourcer-in-chief’ Obama

AFP – Republican Mitt Romney, facing a Democratic assault over his business record and charges he shipped US jobs overseas, went on the offensive by pegging President Barack Obama as “outsourcer-in-chief”. The issue of sending jobs to low-wage nations such as China and India has sharpened into a major point of contention.