In the buildup to the Presidential elections in November 2012, both candidates being well-educated and multimillionaires themselves, blamed each other for being ‘out of touch’. Both candidates are out to prove that the other does not understand the pain that is felt by everyday Americans ever since the economic collapse since 2008.
Firstly, Romney said that Obama, “after years of flying around on Air Force One and surrounded by an adoring staff of true believers” was out of touch with regular, middle-class people. Obama, in reply, said in a speech that Romney called a Republican austerity plan “marvellous” – a word that you don’t hear often.
With Romney enjoying a fortune of about $ 250 million and the Obama family making about $ 5.5 million (about 110 times the average household income in the United States!), in the first year of his Presidency, it’s unlikely that either of these candidates are aware of the economic hardship that the country is now facing.
Yet Romney took it up a notch further by saying the Obama studied for too long at Harvard in order to understand the middle class, it is common knowledge that the President spent three years there while Romney himself studied for four years.
Apart from this, Obama will begin a tour of the ‘swing states’ in order to promote the Buffett Rule, and which will make millionaires pay 20 percent income tax. Romney, on the other hand, will continue directing his efforts towards winning the Republican nomination contest to be held in Pennsylvania later on in the month.