Pres. Barack Obama | Gov. Mitt Romney | |
| Political Experience | 8 years Illinois State Senate | Governor of Massachusetts 2003 – 2007He is credited with eliminating the state’s $1.5 billion deficit through a series of spending cuts and increases in some fees. During this time, he signed into law progressive health care reform legislation which provided near universal health care insurance. |
| 4 years United States Senate, including appointment to the following committees: Foreign Relations, Chairman of European Affairs Subcommittee, Environment and Public Works, Veterans’ Affairs, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. | ||
| President of the United States 2008 – 2012 | ||
| Previous Employment | Taught constitutional law at University of Chicago Law School. 12 years (part time). | Boston Consulting Group – management consulting. 2 years. |
| Practiced law in fields of civil rights, discrimination and neighborhood development. 12 years. | Bain & Company – provided management consulting and eventually served as CEO. He helped bring the company out of financial crisis. 7 years. | |
| Project Vote! Director. Several months. | Co-founded Bain Capital, Co., one of the United State’s largest private equity investment firms. 18 years. | |
| Community organizer. 3 years. | President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, which turned a potentially financially troubled event into a financial success. | |
| Researched and wrote reports for multinational business corporations. 1 year. | ||
| Education | Harvard Law School, magna cum laude | Harvard University, joint JD/MBA, Baker Scholar |
| Harvard Law Review, president | Brigham Young University, BA English | |
| Columbia University, political science | Stanford University | |
| Occidental College, Los Angeles | ||
| Family | Married, two children | Married, five children |
| Religious affiliation | United Church of Christ | Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day SaintsHe spent thirty months as a Mormon missionary in France. |
| Date and place of birth | August 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii |
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