people in ohio know the truth about the auto industry. they know that there have been more jobs there. they know one in eight jobs is related to the auto industry. they know their neighbors have been employed and kept employed by these auto bailouts. and then they went and really flew in the face of what jeep and chrysler is actually doing so they came out and of course knocked down those statements. here at the post, we have a fact checker who gives out pinocchios. over the last couple weeks, the romney campaign definitely edged out the democrats and obama in terms of telling falsehoods. they got about 2.5 pinocchios versus obama s 2.1. i think it was in these last weeks he was edging out obama primarily because he wanted to close the gap in these polls. and we ll see in the end whether or not it pays off. let s take a look at this. this morning by the way you mentioned the fact the jeep producers chrysler have said it s dishonest. they re not moving jobs to china. here you have the
it certainly is. and what people in ohio and in the midwest generally know is the auto bailouts were critically important. ryan and romney said no to the auto bailouts and the president and the vice president said yes in the face of a lot of criticism and they have been proven right. paul ryan is an ideologue. he has a record and joe biden can pick on that record. joe biden can say to paul ryan, that $716 billion that you and romney keep on saying we are robbing from medicare, we are not robbing from medicare. we re actually extending the life of medicare. you, ryan, you use that 7$716 billion in your budget plan and yet you put it in there based upon you actually turning medicare into a voucher program. ryan has got to respond. ryan is a detail person. i think if biden charges very specifically and effectively what the lies are, that both romney and ryan have been
that s what mitt brought. he brought it. it s even more than that. more than stature. more than stature. people want to see a level of passion and they wanted to see the president say, look, we ve done good things under difficult circumstances. we brought back the auto industry. we never even heard about the auto bailouts. he s made some of the points on the stump. he s made some of the points on the stump. not going to count it. but not when it only counted. 60 million people. he s talked about the 47%, not ad nauseam but multiple times in last two weeks. i think the strategic approach to look presidential creeded a certain kind of optical authority. optics matter, how you look, what you look at, what you look like play a role here and mitt romney, when i said bullying, what i meant by that is that he s, you know, dealing with anger management, which he did with jim lehrer very well. anger management. exactly. obama had 99 problems and mitt was the major one, and
type of voter or a group of voters would know romney needs. tries to make up ground on the auto bailouts saying that is not exactly what i meant at the time, i was really in line with what played out there, we know it was not but the type of voter or the group of voters in ohio that we have talked so much about, white males in particular, working class, middle class people, they are there in that state. well, they are, but take pennsylvania. president obama carried by 11% in 08. yeah. yet he lost 11-12 southwestern democrat registration counties where that blue collar worker exists. he lost them and carried the state by 11%. add tremendous margin in philadelphia and most importantly, the republican suburbs, which used to be i mean, which used to be republican now are trending democrat. the governor romney of 2001, the governor romney governor of massachusetts, would have been a strong contender in the philadelphia suburbs and the cleveland suburbs. the governor romney who ttac
is, if i were running against this guy, barack obama, as a conservative, this would be so easy. this would be so easy to find it. he spent us $5 trillion deeper in debt. we ve had auto bailouts. we ve had bank bailouts. we have the largest stimulus package ever which nobody in congress read before it was passed. nobody could tell us that democrats still can t tell us what s in the health care bill. most democrats can t tell us what s in the health care bill. big government has run amok over the past four years. trillion-dollar deficits every year. and are we better off today? after all of this historic spend no, we re not! one-third of americans think we re going in the right direction. that means two-thirds think we re going in the wrong direction. unemployment is still over 8%. the last jobs report, the number went down. that may be good politically, but the economic reality is, it was just horrific. you talk to any finance person that s going to decide where this country goes over