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Barack Obama won't be the only presidential candidate in 2012 looking to fill a football stadium with supporters.

Mitt Romney plans to give a major economic address later this month at Ford Field in Detroit â€" where the city's NFL franchise, the Lions, play â€" according to a report from MSNBC. The Republican front-runner, reeling from a trio of tough losses in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado on Tuesday night, is looking to regain his footing by hammering what might be his strongest personal attribute: his business experience.

The president has announced that his convention speech later this year will also be held at a football stadium â€" that of Charlotte's Carolina Panthers.

And while encouraging jobs numbers! in January bode well for President Obama, concerns about the economy remain the most influential issue for voters heading into the 2012 campaign. Romney's speech should lean on his biography of business successes â€" including his turnaround of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics â€" to argue that he would be the better steward of the American economy. 

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