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AP News in Brief
Amid distractions, Romney seeks to refocus campaign on economy with push on energy sector jobs
• LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Republican Mitt Romney, seeking to refocus his presidential campaign on the economy after days of distraction, is promoting energy proposals aimed at creating more than 3 million new jobs and opening up more areas for drilling off the coast of two political battleground states, Virginia and North Carolina.
• Romney's pivot to energy, a key component of his jobs agenda, comes as the national debate has turned away from the GOP candidate's jobs message and toward issues like rape, abortion, welfare and Medicare 2½ months before Election Day.
• Signaling a renewed emphasis on the economy, Romney will travel from Arkansas to New Mexico on Thursday to discuss what aides cast as a comprehensive energy plan that would result in more than $1 trillion in revenue for federal, state and local governments, plus millions of jobs.
• The most significant aspects of Romney's plans hinge on opening up more areas for offshore oil drilling, including in the mid-Atlantic, where it is currently banned. Romney also wants to give states the power to establish all forms of energy produc
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tion on federal lands, a significant shift in current policy that could face strong opposition in Congress.
• Romney's campaign says his strategy would achieve energy independence by 2020.
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Obama courts demographic groups to build coalition as Romney tries to stick with economy
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- For all the recent diversions over Medicare and abortion, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is still running a campaign that paints with a broad economic brush in hopes of rallying voters on jobs and fiscal policy. President Barack Obama, by contrast, is painting by the numbers, filling in the Democratic landscape step by demographic step.
• The president's pointillist approach has been on sharp display in recent weeks as (Continued on page 25)
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