The Hill’s Michael O’Brien reports:

As a matter of comparison, Romney’s campaign boasts that unemployment ultimately sank in Massachusetts — from 5.6 percent in January of 2003 to 4.6 percent in January of 2007. Utah’s unemployment rate dipped from 4.5 percent to 2.4 percent during the same period. While Huntsman left office in 2009 with a higher unemployment rate, that was a product of the national recession; the unemployment rate in Utah dipped to a low of 2.4 percent during his time as governor, and the state’s jobless rate is still below the national average.
Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller shot back at the Romney campaign late Tuesday morning, calling Romney’s record as governor “abysmal.”
“You know your job creation record is bad when you brag about leapfrogging a state ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. The reality is Mitt Romney’s record on job creation was abysmal by every standard. Governor Huntsman will run on his record of cutting taxes, reducing regulation, and passing free market health care which resulted in Utah becoming the #1 state for job creation,” he said. “We assume Mitt Romney will continue to run away from his record.”