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President Bill Clinton: "This election to me is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment."

"This is a clear choice. The Republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper income people and go back to deregulation. That's what got us in trouble in the first place."

"President Obama has a plan to rebuild America from the ground up, investing in innovation, education, and job training. It only works if there is a strong middle class."

"That's what happened when I was President. We need to keep going with his plan."

Mitt Romney says he wants to run on the issues. But the ads he's running are false welfare reform attack ads.

Here's what the reviews are saying about these ads:

Here in Iowa, we're number one in wind energy jobs. But thousands of those jobs could be at risk.

That's why everyone from President Obama to Governor Branstad, and both Iowa Senators, support extending the wind energy tax credit.

"Seen this? Mitt Romney claiming the President would end welfare reform's work requirements?"

"The New York Times calls it 'blatantly false'."

"The Washington Post says, 'the Obama administration is not removing the bill's work requirements at all.'"

"In fact Obama's getting states to move 20% more people from welfare to work."

Reporter: "Was there ever any year where you paid lower than the 13.9%?"

Mitt Romney: "I haven't calculated that. I'm happy to go back and look."

Voiceover: "Did Romney pay 10% in taxes? 5%? Zero? We don't know."

Romney: flexible on welfare and the truth.

We asked people to use our new tax calculator to compare President Obama's tax plan to Mitt Romney's. This is what they found out.

You work hard, stretch every penny, but chances are you pay a higher tax rate than him: Mitt Romney made $20 million dollars in 2010, but paid only 14% in taxes—probably less than you.

Now he has a plan that will give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle class families by up to $2000 dollars a year. Mitt Romney's middle class tax increase: he pays less, you pay more.

President Obama spoke on Romney's middle class tax increase and shared how his plan will keep strengthening middle class families.

President Obama was in Orlando, FL to discuss the choice in this election between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs and pay down the debt.

"The choice on debt.

Mitt Romney's plan: huge tax cuts for millionaires, tax breaks for oil companies and corporations that ship jobs overseas, adding trillions to the deficit.