lied about his end date at bain. in a series of interviews on friday, romney accused of obama campaign of stooping to new lows. in an interview that aired today on cbs this morning, president obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive
lows. in an interview that aired today on cbs this morning, president obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama s campaign ads have b
appeals have run its course that would be a typical democratic no. maybe if she would have said it differently, it would have been better. who cares. in the steam of things, it isn t too much. i have more of a problem now. everyone has moved so i m not sure what they said when they said it. president clinton and cory booker and one or two other, cory booker said the attacks on bain were nauseating and he compared it to the video. i think these attacks on bain are fully a part of the debate about what kind of country we re going to be, capitalism i completely agree but i was fascinated by the moment. it s very clear the bain attacks, they re seeing and polling and focus grouping that they re effective, that they re effective particularly in swing state states, in places that have gone through the industrialization and have been hit hard on the manufacturing side. at the same time, it s not like
use on barack obama just basically labeling him a big tax and spend liberal, that he s passing his health care plan that sure, it s constitutional because they re taxing people. it s just harder to make that argument given his past in massachusetts. so it may either lessen that attack or take it off the table entirely. eric fernstrom this morning seemed to take it off the table entirely to chuck todd this morning. really interesting. that s why that interview was is getting so much play and was such a big signal of where they re heading next. chris cillizza, thanks so much. see you later towards the end of the show. for more on just where the presidential campaign stands, as we kick off a very busy holiday week, i m joined by the best of the best, e.j. deion, msnbc contributor and columnist for washington post and charlie cook, msnbc political analyst and editor of the cook political report. you both have been going around in aspen and talking to people all weekend about a lot
judge roberts may have done this to go to georgetown parties and be nice and, i ll tell you the electorate is angry because they were against the bill and are still against it. gregg: i want to ask you why president obama is now pulling ahead in some important swing states, we ll be putting those numbers up in a moment and i wonder if it is all of the attacks on bain which mitt romney used to run and here s joe biden. take a listen: you have to give mitt romney credit. he s a job creator. in singapore, china, india. good at creating jobs. [applause]. . overseas. [applause]. gregg: is debating romney bashing helping. any time you spend tens of millions of dollars on an ad and it is not responded to it will have an impact and reinforce your own base and the democratic base is obviously solid behind the president. i don t think he has moved in as much in the independent vote and that is really what it will come