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Axelrod: No way last week was good for Romney
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN
Obama senior strategist David Axelrod on Sunday described the last week as an "enlightening" one for people hoping to get a better look at Mitt Romney, but not a "good" one, as Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus suggested.
"Well, I don't know what prism he's looking through," Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week," speaking just after Priebus said that it was a "good" week for Republicans though "probably not the best week in the campaign."
"I don't think anybody else would define it as a good week," Axelrod said. "But it was an enlightening week. The week began with Governor Romney basically slandering 47 percent of America, saying that they were, you know, hooked on dependency, didn't pay their taxes, and so on. And at the end of the week, we saw him manipulating his own tax returns to try and plump up his portion of taxes to 14 percent."
David Axelrod
2012 Presidential Race