administration sees them as their enemy. megyn: governor mitt romney speaking moments ago at a manufacturing plant in cincinnati, ohio, as we wait for the president to make similar remarks, although same topic, i should say, very different message. doug schoen is a former adviser to president clinton and a fox news contributor, barry gibbons and matt mccall is president of penn financial group. vera, i m going to start with you on this. mitt romney seemed a little bit more focused, but he was ticking off the things he believes have hurt small business in particular in this country on president obama s policies. same old stuff, right? as you mentioned one by one, he s pointing out all of the deficiencies, we ve been over 8% on the unemployment rate for over 40 weeks month, excuse me. kids can t get a job, people are losing their homes. he s just continuing to point out the deficiencies, all the reason for obama to change his messaging and leave with the whole stick with me messaging
you see a similar trend. you tell me, can we expect and we ll get to these in a minute, these other ones but you tell me, chris, can you expect those polls to get any better before that chart with the downward from jekyll ri trajectory gets better? and that s exactly it, megyn, and that s exactly what the president is trying to do today is he s not giving a framing speech as much as he s giving a reframing speech. he wants to reboot. he needs a startover because, certainly, this cycle has not worked out well both from a tactical perspective as the campaign and the whole obama team tries to deal in short-term tactical thinking with these bits of news that come each day, those numbers that you had on your chart there about the jobs numbers what the president is trying to do now is say, okay, i got that this did not work, the opening phase of this election cycle was bad for me. the clinton democrats are complaining loudly, there s problems inside my own party, so let s r