Romney: 'The economy is coming back'

By ALEXANDER BURNS |
3/19/12 9:25 AM EDT

So he said at a campaign stop in Springfield, Ill., this morning. POLITICO's Reid Epstein:

At his first stop on the eve of the Illinois GOP primary, Mitt Romney told a crowd at a nostalgia-themed diner in Springfield that the economy is indeed recovering and will continue to do so.

“I believe the economy is coming back, by the way," Romney said. "We’ll see what happens. It’s had ups and downs. I think it’s finally coming back. The economy always comes back after a recession, of course. There’s never been one that we didn’t recover from. The problem is this one has been deeper than it needed to be and a slower recovery than it should have been, by virtue of the policies of this president. Almost everything he’s done has made it harder for this economy to recover.”

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