US President Barack Obama touted his $447 billion jobs plan to voters in swing states Thursday after his vice president admitted the 2012 election would be a referendum on the sickly economy.
Obama gave interviews to local television stations in North Carolina and Florida, two states which he won in 2008, but where he is in a tough fight as the 2012 race gets underway.
“This is the worst financial crisis and recession that has existed in our lifetimes,” Obama told Florida’s WESH television, pressing Congress to act on his jobs bill which the White House says will create nearly two million jobs.
“Florida was hard-hit more than most when the housing bubble burst,” Obama said. “The American Jobs Act puts construction workers back to work in Florida right now building schools, roads and ports,” he said.
Obama described America as a “great country that has gotten a little soft”
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