Edited sentence: " Romney claimed that 10,000 jobs were created because of his work at Bain, but private detectives hired by Kennedy found a factory bought by Bain Capital that had suffered a 350-worker strike after Bain had cut worker pay and benefits." Romney is now pro-life and opposes Roe.A month later, however, Kennedy led in the polls 50% to 32.According to figures in The Almanac of American Politics 1996, which relies on official campaign finance reports, Romney spent over $7 million of his own money, with Kennedy spending more than $10 million from his campaign fund, mostly in the last weeks of the campaign (this was the second-most expensive race of the 1994 election cycle, after the Dianne Feinstein vs.After Romney touted his business credentials and his record at creating jobs within his company, Kennedy ran campaign ads showing an Indiana company bought out by Romney's firm, Bain Capital, and interviews with its union workers who had been fired and criticized Romney for the loss of their jobs, one saying, "I don’t think Romney is creating jobs because he took every one of them away.Although both Kennedy and Romney supported the abortion rights established under Roe v.In a September poll, Romney had a 43% to 42% lead.Kennedy won the election with 58 percent of the vote to Romney's 41 percent, the second smallest margin in Kennedy's nine elections to the Senate through 2006.Kennedy, who typically faced only "token" GOP opposition for his senate seat was more vulnerable than usual in 1994, in part because of the unpopularity of the Democratic Congress as a whole and also because this was Kennedy's first election since the William Kennedy Smith trial in Florida, in which Ted Kennedy had taken some public relations hits regarding his character.Michael Huffington Senate race in California).One Boston Herald/WCVB-TV poll taken after the September 20, 1994 primary showed Romney ahead 44 percent to 42 percent, within the poll's sampling margin of error.President Bill Clinton traveled to Massachusetts to campaign for Kennedy.Romney won the Massachusetts Republican Party's nomination for U.Senate after defeating businessman John Lakian in the primary.Some early polls showed Romney close to Senator Ted Kennedy.Wade, Kennedy accused Romney of being "multiple choice" on the issue, rather than "pro choice