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Romney turns debate attacks into TV spot
Catalina Camia
![Mitt Romney goes face-to-face with President Obama at their town hall debate.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.usatoday.com/gcdn/media/USATODAY/onpolitics/2012/10/17/debate-romneyad-16_9.jpg?width=660&height=373&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
That didn't take long: Mitt Romney is out with a new ad featuring some of his attacks on President Obama during Tuesday's debate.
Romney's campaign spot called "The Choice" hits a theme that he has been stressing for weeks: The presidential election is about the direction voters want for America's future.
The 30-second spot opens with Romney saying Obama's "policies haven't worked," in a sound bite taken directly from the town hall debate at Hofstra University.
What follows are Romney's own words about median income being down, people out of work and Obama failing to live up to promises on the deficit and Medicare, in a mix of sound bites and televised images that are just hours old.
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