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After Mitt Romney fired off a statement about Obama being out of touch on the economy, David Axelrod took to Twitter and obliterated Mittens with a single tweet. Romney put out a statement after more disappointing economic data was released today that said in part, “Today’s abysmal jobs report confirms what we all know – that President Obama has failed to get this economy moving again. Just this week, President Obama’s closest White House adviser said that ‘unemployment rates or even monthly jobs numbers’ do not matter to the average American.” Obama adviser David Axelrod took to Twitter and with a single tweet showed Romney’s campaign staff how it’s done: Axelrod was correct. In April a Reuters story summed up Romney’s economic record, “Later, as Massachusetts governor from January 2003 to January 2007, Romney presided over one of the puniest rates of employment growth among the 50 U.S. states, at a time the nation’s economy was booming. Labor Department figures showed Massachusetts ranked 47th among the states in the rate of jobs growth in those four years — ahead of only Ohio, Michigan and Louisiana.” A 2010 Market Watch story highlighted just how pitiful Massachusetts’ job growth was under Romney, [...]