Clinton: Obama can win re-election

WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton said he believes President Barack Obama can win re-election if he can persuade voters he steadied a shaky economy.

Clinton told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday he believes likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney will have a difficult time reconciling positions he's taken during the primary season with what he'll say against Obama in the fall.

Clinton was asked whether Obama can argue that Americans are better off than they were four years ago, as he argued in winning re-election in 1996. He replied that if Obama can't make that case, "it is only because of the financial collapse that occurred in September 2008" before Obama took office.

Clinton said Obama can assert that "we put a floor under the recession and kept it from becoming a depression." -- AP