WASHINGTON -- Sputtering along, the economy is offering some hope but no illuminating help to voters who are mired in a weak jobs recovery and flooded with familiar promises from and . A new employment snapshot seemed too mixed and middling to jolt a consistently close race. Three months shy of Election Day, the latest numbers out Friday showed monthly job creation was higher than expected -- but rose, too. That gave each candidate political room to see only what he wanted, and to stick with the fundamental economic argument that he thinks will win the White House. "It's another hammer blow to the struggling middle-class families of America," Romney said of the pace of job growth. At the...
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