The nation added just 80,000 jobs in June, keeping the national unemployment rate at 8.2 percent, according to a July 6 report from the U.S. Department of Labor. It was the third consecutive month of weak job growth.

The numbers mean trouble for President Barack Obama as the November election draws nearer. Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney jumped on the latest report as evidence of Obama’s failed economic policies, and his supporters in New Hampshire followed suit.

The New Hampshire branch of Romney’s campaign sent out a press release with quotes from Senate majority leader Jeb Bradley, former health commissioner John Stephen and executive councilor Chris Sununu, all saying the president has been ineffective at creating jobs.

Each said Romney would turn the economy around, though they did not elaborate on his plan other than to say he would “remove the obstacles of government.”