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Jobs report: Campaigns spin in different directions for Obama, Romney

Romney cast Obama as ineffective on the economy, while the Obama campaign tried to keep voters focused on finishing a recovery that the president started.

A 'now hiring' sign is posted in the window of a GAP store on Sept. 27, 2012 in San Francisco, California. The Labor Department released October unemployment data on Nov. 2 that showed 171,000 jobs were added to the US economy in October, while the unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.9 percent as more workers searched for employment.

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