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After getting booed at the NAACP convention in Houston this morning, Mitt Romney turned to a friendlier audience — the TV networks of Fox — to explain the remarks that earned him an extended negative reaction in Texas. "I think we expected that," the Republican presidential candidate told Fox Business Network host Neil Cavuto. The former Massachusetts governor defended his decision to call for repealing the federal health-care plan approved by the Democratic Congress and signed into law two years ago by President Obama. "I am going to give the same message to the NAACP that I give across the country, which is that Obamacare is killing jobs, and if jobs is the priority, we are going to have to replace it with something that actually holds down healthcare costs, as opposed to something that causes more spending for the government and more spending for American families," Romney said in an interview taped for 7 p.m. CDT airing on FOX Business Network's Cavuto program. Romney noted that boos were not the only crowd reaction — or the dominant response to his address. At the end of my speech having a standing ovation was generous and hospitable on the part of the audience," he told Cavuto. "While we disagree on some issues like Obamacare, a lot of issues we see eye to eye." Romney's use of the word "Obamacare" evoked ten seconds of boos from the audience in Houston. The word "Obamacare" has been used as a derisive description of the health-care law by many Republicans and conservatives. President Obama only recently warmed to the idea of calling his health-care overhaul "Obamacare" but rarely uses the term. Romney did not use the word "Romneycare" to describe his health-care plan enacted in Massachusetts. Republican rivals dismissed the former governor's health-care law as "Romneycare" or "Obamneycare." All booing aside, Romney told Cavuto he believes he will be able to "chip away" at the 96 percent of the African American vote Obama received four years ago. "I do actually," Romney said. "I spoke with a number African American leaders after the event and they said a lot of folks don't want to say they are not going to vote for Barack Obama but they are disappointed in his lack of policies to improve our schools, disappointed in urban policy, disappointed in the economy. (There is) 14.4 percent unemployment among African Americans today. The president has not been able to get the job done. People want to see someone who can get this economy going. I expect to get African American votes."