Romney tries to reboot flagging campaign

With momentum on President Barack Obama’s side, Mitt Romney sought to explain to voters more clearly what he would do as president as he looked to right his struggling campaign and ease worries in Republican circles about its state seven weeks before election day.

“My plan is to help the middle class,” the Republican nominee says in a new TV ad in which he promises to cut the deficit, balance the budget, reduce spending and help small business. Also, he adds: “We’ll add 12m new jobs in four years.”

It was one of two new commercials he was launching in the most competitive states — the other assails Obama as bad for middle- class families — while also re-focusing his campaign appearances on his previously released five-point economic plan and starting a new effort to try to narrow Obama’s advantage with Hispanic voters.