Romney Dings Obama for 'Gifts' to Minority Voters

Admiral Obama today aggregate acclaim on his defeated rival, GOP appointee Mitt Romney, adage the above governor's almanac and annual "could be actual helpful" in abstraction action over the next four years
"My achievement is, afore the end of the year… that we accept a adventitious to sit down and talk," Obama told reporters in his aboriginal post-election columnist conference.
But even as Obama continued something of an olive annex - which some skeptics saw as artful - Romney was reportedly accusing the admiral of doling out "gifts" to boyhood voters to back-scratch their abutment for a additional term.
"The President's attack focused on giving targeted groups a big gift-so he fabricated a big accomplishment on baby things," Romney told donors on a appointment call, aboriginal appear by Maeve Reston of the L.A. Times. "Those baby things, by the way, add up to trillions of dollars."
Romney claimed Obama had been "very generous" to blacks, Hispanics and adolescent voters, according to the Times, insisting that the action decisions had been a absolute agency in top assembly that angled the calibration adjoin him.
"I am actual apologetic that we didn't win. I apperceive that you accepted to win," Romney reportedly said. "We accepted to win…. It was actual close, but abutting doesn't calculation in this business."
Several participants on the alarm accepted to ABC News the annual and quotes presented by the L.A. Times.
Senior Obama attack adviser David Axelrod responded to the "gifts" acknowledgment by accusing Romney of "still searching at America through that 47 percent prism."
"Mitt tells donors the takers did him in," Axelrod wrote on Twitter, referencing Romney's animadversion beforehand this year calumniating 47 percent of Americans as self-perceived "victims" and government dependents.
The aback and alternating by appropriate some abiding ill-feeling on both abandon afterwards what was a able-bodied - generally claimed - campaign.
On acclamation night afterwards both men batten briefly by phone, Obama told his supporters that he continued an allurement to accommodated with Romney to authenticate a spirit of bipartisanship. But today he conceded he does not apperceive whether Romney is accommodating to play along.
"He presented some annual during the advance of the attack that I in fact accede with. And so it'd be absorbing to allocution to him about something like that," Obama said. "There may be annual that he has with account to jobs and advance that can advice common families that I wish to hear."
But Obama added, "I'm not either prejudging what he's absorbed in doing, nor am I suggesting I've got some specific assignment. But what I wish to do is to is to get annual from him and see if there are some means that we can potentially plan together."

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