too much about mitt romney s policy positions and some we have heard a lot about including his time at bane capital and what he will do for the wealthy in this country. and jonathon, picking up on what christie is talking about, you said we will hear more about the governor from the governor s mouth this week. how much of that is going to be scripted. scripted? the republicans are saying they need to get a more personal side of the governor. there was an ap story saying there was a plan to present mitt romney, the man, to the american people. that s important. what people know about mitt romney has been shaped by this $200 million salt of negative ads. all of these things people don t care about. he needs to sell himself, his plan, his family, his vision for the country. this will be the first real opportunity he will have to do that. he hasn t been able to have an unfiltered conversation. i am looking forward to it and i think a lot of people are.
there are no guarantees that the independents will flock to the president. jonathon, what platform should governor romney push to win them over? well, what we are seeing in our research is that folks are hungry to see new information about mitt romney. on the presidential side, folks have seen literally $200 million of negative ads. but the ads are not relevant to his policy as governor. it is about bane capital which nobody cares about and tax returns which nobody seems is relevant. whether or not he is responsible for the death of a woman which people don t believe. they are hungry for fresh information about mitt romney. they want to see what he can present to the country. for the first time this next week he can present himself and his policies unfiltered to the american people. i think they are going to like what they see. we will be watching, of course. let me look at this other poll. they are looking at the view of political parties. you have 58% of the democrats and 60% of
mediate the dispute, where do you come down on this? they are going to bring in testimonials all week to his business success, bane capital, romney did they want to bring out this record of success and personal portrait. i don t disagree with dorothy and jason, that romney has to do these things. the election however is not about mitt romney. it is about the american people and the situation they are in right now. i would push a little further than what dorothy has suggested. which is mitt romney is representing himself as a guy who understands business. he wrote and published a piece on the wall street journal editorial page in which he described four, five businesses he worked with. he has to talk about what is in the minds of employers now who are not hiring the americans who want jobs. why aren t they doing that? something he understands. what has barack obama done to prevent those employers from
the group not aligned with the obama campaign, but supportive of the president featuring a steelworker and talking about his lost job because of bane capital. and years later his wife died from cancer tragically. but connecting those two people felt, including democrats many of them, that it was inappropriate, and it took the campaign to a different place. your take on that, and where both sides are going with the negativity, and is it acceptable? well, i have not seen this ad. i have been reading a little about it. i was away. i haven t seen the ad. my understanding is what the ad does is show the consequences of some of the decisions that bane capital made under mitt romney s leadership and the impact it had on the life of the family. the family president whatted to tell the story. the family wanted to tell the story. i think it is fair to show what impact policies will have on the individual level. after all budgets we talk a lot about numbers and things, but it all comes down to
out some clear things and romney knew that picking him was going to spark conversations about his house budget. oh, yeah. shannon: which as you saw we had the top democrat on of the house budget committee with us. they are ready, willing and able to go after it. if mitt romney has a choice between what he he has been getting since april which is murderrized about his personal wealth, his tax rates, what happened at companies that were managed by bain capital, a really intensely personal intensely negative attack. we saw on last week s fox news poll h his percental favorability is down, unfavorability is up. that is a trendline he can t sustain. given the choice between that and having a fight over medicare, mitt romney would rather have a fight over medicare because that is a serious big issue. not just barack obama and the democrats incinerating mitt romney s personal character in the most and i want to emphasize this the absolutely