what you saw was president obama taking advantage of the power of his office. mitt romney can t do something like this. whether we debate whether he would or not, seems like he wouldn t, but we would not, cannot do this. president obama can. hispanics are clearly a pillar of the base. go back to 2008. hispanics. young people. those are and affluent whites are really kind of the three big pillars of the base hispanics have become a little dispirited you can see it in the polling because the dream act, the dream act didn t pass. you could argue president obama didn t focus add much on their priorities as he would have liked. i m not suggesting it was done for only political reasons, but political calculation thipd is to say to hispanics i am your guy and mitt romney is not. boxes mitt romney in. it makes it very hard for him to take a position. i think the safe assumption since june of 2012, it has something to do with politics. they quote obama s strategists see this electio
romney s campaign team is aware that this is a public that is tired of war. people are tired, we have been in afghanistan for a decade. people want us to get out. and you ll see him talk about that, which is to say he doesn t have a problem with the u.s. having a timetable for getting out of there, but he is critical of the president s willingness to publicize that timetable. let s go to ron. let s take a look at this. i want your reaction. here he is talking yesterday with bob schaefer. he dodged the question on how he planned to deal with revenue. let s look at this one. we know governor you have told us, you haven t been bashful about telling us where you want to cut taxes. when are you going to tell us where you re going to get the revenue? the of the deductions are you
he forced romney to dodge ball. romney dodging the question of good old bob schaefer s nailing him with it. where do you stand on what the president did giving legal protection to people under age 30 who came here below age 16 because their parents came here and brought them here. here he is trying to dodge it. would you repeal this order if you became president? well, sit back and look at the issue. with regards to these kids brought in by their parents, through no fault of their own, there needs to be a long-term solution. but would you repeal this? well, it would be overtaken by events if you will by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution. would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would yu just repeal it? we ll look at that setting as we reach that. chris cillizza, he just grabs on you like in a cowboy movie and hangs on and won t let go of the guy.
friday to a hispanic group. we will have to see what he says on that. he s also romney trying to make moves into reaching out to african-americans and will be talking to the naacp. he has been meeting with top african-american journalists. he is trying to make some moves in that direction. come on. can we get sophisticated here? no, no. it is to frame himself to a tolerant person, frame himself to those independents that want to see somebody, who they feel like is tolerant and open. you know, you talk to republicans about this. the nonposition so far on immigration. they saw in perry someone that had a stance about that would broaden the party. so far romney has not been able to do that. exhibit a, bob schaefer. he keeps asking. much more polite fellow. very fun.
pay. underlining his issue on women s issues with a push from biden, he has done the same on gays backing full marriage he qualities. last week, he went further than any other politician in history protecting young immigrants. brought to this country illegal by their parents. in each case, he s taken action the other guy, romney, won t do because he sold himself to the right-wing pressure groups. he is going where the other guy can t go and scored politically. this hour we expect president obama to give a news conference at the g-20 summit in mexico and we will bring that to you live when it happens. let s bring in chris cillizza and maria. is this the name of obama s game, nailing down your base and going for the reachables before the other guy gets a shot of him? is this the name of the game, nailing down your base, going for the reachable it is other guy can t get because taking positions he has kept himself away from by the committedments he made so far in the primary. yo