WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney's campaigns traded accusations of lying Thursday, ratcheting up an already heated race for the White House.
The Romney camp's charge came in a hard-hitting new television ad that accuses Obama of misleading, unfair and untrue attacks. The Obama campaign hit back, blasting Romney's "big Bain lie" after a newspaper report cited a possible discrepancy in the presumptive GOP's nominee's business record.
Both sides looked to paint the other as little more than the typical politician as they sought an edge in what polls have shown to be a neck-and-neck contest.
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