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Rick Santorum said that rival Mitt Romney's comments about liking "being able to fire people who provide me services" was likely not "a very good message" to voters while campaigning in New Hampshire on Tuesday.

“I am not too sure that is a very good message to a lot of folks out there,” Santorum told ABC News.

But Santorum was sympathetic to Romney's insistence that the quote was taken out of context. Romney was discussing consumers' ability to switch health insurance companies, but the remark comes at a time when he is under heavy fire from Republican foes for business practices at Bain Capital, responsible for some mass layoffs as a result of leveraged buyouts.
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