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New York Times: On Trail, Obama Attacks Romney on Student Aid
RENO, Nev. — , adding another chapter to his litany of differences with , took to the road on Tuesday to promote his record on education and assail his Republican challenger for advising financially struggling college hopefuls to “shop around and borrow more money from your parents.”
Campaigning here and in Ohio, Mr. Obama presented himself as the lucky product of affordable education and his opponent as the enemy of it. Mr. Romney, he said, would cut and grants, and do nothing to curb the tuition increases that threaten to put higher education out of reach of millions of middle-class Americans.
“He said, ‘The best thing you can do is shop around,’ ” the president said to boos from a youthful crowd of 3,500 in a sunny quadrangle at Capital University in Bexley, Ohio. “That’s it. That’s his plan. That’s his answer to young people who are trying to figure out how to go to college and make sure that they don’t have a mountain of debt.”
It was the first day of Mr. Obama’s two-day swing through a pair of electoral battlegrounds, and it showcased what has become a methodical drive by the president to make the election a stark choice between him and Mr. Romney: on tax policy, , education — anything, it seems, but the gasping economy.
The president said his policies, from a $10,000 tuition tax credit to a doubling of Pell grant scholarships, had helped an additional three million students afford college. Mr. Romney’s proposals, he said, would cut investments in education, leaving one million students without scholarships and reducing financial aid to nearly 10 million.
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