msnbc   |  October 06, 2012

Romney camp claims jobs numbers a bit skewed

NBC's Garrett Haake reports from the campaign trail in Florida, where GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is arguing that the U.S. September jobs numbers are not quite accurate.

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>>> alex witt . republican presidential nominee mitt romney on the campaign trail in florida. mr. romney kicked off a three-day tour of the state. and the romney campaign, garrett, good morning. how did mr. romney and his camp react to the new job numbers and the conspiracy theories that followed?

>> hey, alex. good morning. they actually went through stages of reaction. first issues a statement saying the numbers just weren't good enough. then with governor romney 's first appearance on the stump in virginia, he actually said the cause of the, dop in the unemployment was people dropping out of the workforce. this month was not the case. finally at the end of the day , looking for things like pointing out workforce participation has fallen over the last couple of years and remained as high as president obama was in office, unemployment would be much higher and late last night advisers pointing out a large uptick in part-time work as being part of this number, which i suspect will be part of the attack lines in the comes days. as for the conspiracy theory , they're going to deal with the numbers as they exist, say advisers, but didn't go out of the way, that the conspiracy theorists are wrong. they're leaving those fires rage on the right for a little longer.

>> yeah. okay. well, that's not unexpected. thank you very much for that report.