knew, the engineers knew about the ignition switch problem years before they issued a recall. there were 13 deaths linked to accidents with that ignition switch recall problem and that is why the new ceo mis pushing ahead and most analysts say more aggressively than otherwise. getting out ahead of the story. right. you hear recall as a consumer, it sets off all sorts of red flags. it makes one wonder are these cars as safe as other automakers? you re going to get one of these letters from the auto dealer. you re going to get a letter saying that this is a model that you need to recall, what to do, how to bring it back in. but mostly these cars are safe. gm has a safety rating of 4.4 stars out of 5 for nhtsa. four models of the international insurance highway safety list. they ve got a lot of safe cars. some of these things are just technical problems and in some cases they have led to accidents in the ignition switch case, but by and large, your car is probably still safe.
before. the coalition of automotive retailers maintains those two licenses should never have been issued in the first place and those were essentially illegal dealerships. so they would say this was never legal in the first place. the auto dealers have a lot of political muscle. i remember covering dodd/frank up on capitol hill. right. and there was a provision they were going to put in to basically change to regulate financing for cars and it was like congress just got lit on fire by the auto dealers. i was like, oh my goodness, i didn t quite realize how strong auto dealers are. yeah, both at the state level and the federal level, auto dealer lobbies have given tens of millions of dollars. tesla has put down less than seven figures. they re getting totally outgunned and also, you know, being a new company, they re relatively inexperienced in the lobbying realm. they ve got i believe one lobbyist who s a former staffer to dianne feinstein. they re really, you know, the aut
as the gop nominee to be hoping to win back a state that went for president obama in 2008. and he s hoping hispanics will help him out. our colleague on that story in-depth for us in denver. i mentioned 2008. two thirds of the hispanic vote nationwide went to the democratic ticket but the vote in colorado was closer. does romney see an opening and could that spell a difference, do you think? oh, he definitely seeing an opening. both kand date candidates do. 12% to 14% of the overall voterless here in colorado and both sides are going at them. romney, the second trip since basically becoming the nominee, at least, unofficially to colorado. he is in the far west shoring up the business interests today and the latino voters, the swing voters and late deciders they hope to bring over to their side. a pollster here in colorado breaks it down why both candidates are after hispanics here in colorado, new mexico and in nevada. these candidates are looking at different pathways to
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taken him seriously enough as a candidate to go after him in the race before this week. mitt romney s strategy in the all important state of michigan is kind of shaky right now. he has been in coherent at best on the rescue of the auto industry, detroit should go bankrupt, his renewed attacks on the bailout of detroit are to the point where insiders are openly panning him all over the press. the head of the largest auto dealer attacking mitt romney as reckless and dishonest. the ads that romney is running against rick santorum in michigan aren t all that compelling for one. but more importantly, they don t tap into any previously existing well of hatred for rick santorum on the republican side, the way his attack ads did against newt gingrich. now, rick santorum and his billionaire, the aspirin breach between your knees, he s beginning to cut down mitt romney s overwhelming financial advantage when it comes to ad spending. mitt romney is in trouble. mitt romney is in trouble.