"Forget his GOP primary opponents. Republican front-runner Mitt Romney is focused on a match-up against President Barack Obama.
'The president when he was a candidate said that he was going to take China to the mat,' the former Massachusetts governor said Wednesday at a manufacturing plant here. 'Well, I'm afraid most of us thought he meant the wrestling mat. But instead he and we have been taken to the door mat.'
Romney's take on Obama's economic record in a general election battleground shined a light on his strategy as he leads the Republican field in polls and money five months before primary voting is to begin: ignore swipes from his GOP rivals, criticize the Democratic president on the economy, and campaign in important presidential swing states seemingly as often as states that vote early in the GOP primary."
Romney looks past primary, campaigns against Obama
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