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Another Romney argument officially shot down

No, I can't say I feel sorry for the guy, but it seems as if nothing is going right for Mitt Romney anymore. Let's look at a list of Romney arguments: 1) Taxes - the public favors the Obama plan of raising taxes on the top income-earners 2) Medicare - the public doesn't care for the Romney/Ryan plan 3) Are we better off than we were 4 years ago? - If we're being literal, then yes. 4) Jobs aren't there - We've seen a net positive in job creation for 23 consecutive months and that's where the most recent bit of news comes along... The Labor Department revised an earlier estimate that total non-farm payrolls were at 133.300 million in August and altered that to 133.686 million. When the President's first term began in January of '09, that number was at 133.561 million. In other words, with that revision in the estimates, Obama went from losing a total of 261,000 jobs in his four years thus far to creating 125,000 of them. Romney had better...