the bain capital guy and that was not a good thing in the way obama people put those ads on the air. and i think the result is that if obama can hold that kind of lead in ohio, he might come out of this as long as biden does his job and obama is not as sleepy as he was in the first debate, couldn t procenounce dana s wonderful word from the beginning of the show. how much does format play into this? both will be seated. nine topics. ten minutes per topic. the questions whether go back and forth between domestic and foreign policy. does that lend itself to more conversation? do you you prepare differently for a debate format like that? well, i guess given the photographs you re discussing about congressman ryan, i think seated is better for biden so he s less of an intimidating presence. hard to predict because we don t know how martha raddatz will handle it, will she be passive
in a very humorous way in this story, which is worth checking out. charlie cook in his cook report noting that he is seeing some shades here of 96 in this election. next week or ten days critical for romney in the gop if things don t turn around? if things don t turn around, there could be a stampede. republicans reeling bob dole is not going to defeat president clinton is repeating itself. there is a lot of criticism that the romney campaign is incompetent. do you see those shades of bob dole there as well? mitt romney is often compared to bob dole because they re both running against relatively popular democratic incumbents, and for their vice presidential pick, they pick supply-side congressman. here is the difference, bob dole when he ran was senate majority leader, a washington insider. mitt romney is a bain capital guy coming from the outside as the governor of massachusetts. karen finney, you ve got ten seconds. robert took all of your heim. thursday morning after the deb
with the credit crunch facing small businesses. this is how we re going to actually break open contracting as a policy for small businesses to create jobs. you can do all this as a republican. you can do all this as a bain capital guy but you ve got to bring some specifics, talk one, two, three, you ve got to make the 99% actually feel like you think about their problems and have real solutions that will help fix it. well i think the practical political problem this has, you could have been frozen in ice in the north pole five years ago and they saw you out, what do you think romney s senses are? you ve got to deal with bain. it s not like this wasn t coming. and i have been surprised that the campaign seems to have been sloppy and defensive. they don t seem to have their bane act together. i think they ought to go on offense. what did romney do? people don t understand bain. they understand the demagogic attacks on television. they don t know he managed pension funds, he was paid to
with the credit crunch facing small businesses. this is how we re going to actually break open contracting as a policy for small businesses to create jobs. you can do all this as a republican. you can do all this as a bain capital guy but you ve got to bring some specifics, talk one, two, three, you ve got to make the 99% actually feel like you think about their problems and have real solutions that will help fix it. well i think the practical political problem this has, you could have been frozen in ice in the north pole five years ago and they saw you out, what do you think romney s senses are? you ve got to deal with bain. it s not like this wasn t coming. and i have been surprised that the campaign seems to have been sloppy and defensive. they don t seem to have their bane act together. i think they ought to go on offense. what did romney do? people don t understand bain. they understand the demagogic attacks on television. they don t know he managed pension funds, he was paid to
that jack kemp speech. you know, somebody to actually say look, i have looked at the problems. here s some solutions i can agree on. this is how we re going to deal with the credit crunch facing small businesses. this is how we re going to actually break open contracting as a policy for small businesses to create jobs. you can do all this as a republican. you can do all this as a bain capital guy but you ve got to bring some specifics, talk one, two, three, you ve got to make the 99% actually feel like you think about their problems and have real solutions that will help fix it. well i think the practical political problem this has, you could have been frozen in ice in the north pole five years ago and they saw you out, what do you think romney s senses are? you ve got to deal with bain. it s not like this wasn t coming. and i have been surprised that the campaign seems to have been sloppy and defensive. they don t seem to have their bane act together. i think they ought to go on off