a $3.6 billion budget deficit to $164 million surplus. mark murray, you and the team say is the gop s message of economic optimism helping obama? you focus specifically on the battle ground states as mentioned like wisconsin who are doing a little better than other parts of this country right now. tamron, when you look at a lot of the ads that scott walker and his allies aired in the wisconsin recall it had this message that wisconsin is adding jobs, creating jobs, and it was a very more optimistic message than what you were hearing from romney and a lot of republicans that say the country is on the wrong track, especially scott walker was making the message that wisconsin is on the right track. when we look at the exit polls from last night it showed that when it was asked who does a better job on improving the economy, barack obama or mitt romney, obama won that very narrowly. so you could make the argument that in states like wisconsin n ohio, in virginia, states where the unemp
republican governors that say the economic progress is made under a republican governor, that that does cut at some of the core message that mitt romney and national republicans are making that the economy is awful, that the country is heading down the wrong track and only a republican in the white house can change things around. you mentioned former president clinton. i want to play this issue that many brought up regarding whether it was off message again and the clarification. let s play it, please. the point i was trying to make is that you have examples of private equity doing good and bad things over the last decade. i think the president was on stronger ground i thought when he went after what he disagreed with in governor romney s record as governor because that is something that s out there in the public domain. we don t have to dig for the facts. we don t have to wonder what the case was. i just don t know enough about the other thing to have a
economy and create jobs. dan pfeiffer, white house communications director, thanks very much for cominging on. thank you, chuck. well, rick perry says he s trying to not be george bush. but today he heads into the heart of bush country. actually perry would argue it s his country, too, for dash for cash. our rick perry campaign expert right here on set. and still to come, damage estimates from hurricane irene are as high as $20 billion. that s hurricane andrew level, folks. we re live in the disaster zone. first, today s trivia question. double entendre here. tweet me. fist correct follow gets a follow from us on thursday. the answer and more coming up on the daily rundown. while i was away e-trade s techno-magic thanks martha triggered my stop loss orders. saved me a pantload.
greta: i would be willing to go with the spend more if there is any indicia it is doing well. if they could point to any number. jobless claims up, unemployment level at best, steady. people out of work. where is the where should i have what statistics should show that the stimulus is working, give me one. housing stars? manufacturing? inventory? there are a lot of crews around the country working on roads so you see people spending money on these transportation projects. when something is failing and they keep doing it, i think it is a problem. if i were advising the president which would say try a business tax cut to give businesses incentive to hire more workers? greta: i think he should talk to the country and say where are what his plans are why he thinks we should stay
for. for women in this count i. it seems unlikely you re going to get a constitutional amendment to do way with the 14th amendment. let me ask you something. greta. it doesn t take a constitutional amendment. greta: all right that. is not my question. it s clear. misapplied. greta: okay. you and i can debate that. i m curious as if you were to achieve what you want, would you want to apply a retroactively to the children who have been born to illegal immigrants? this country? or something pro suspective? your mind? it would be pro suspective. i don t think, wrong, even those been wrong, i you can t take away that has been done. it s unfair, nobody wants to be unfair. we want to fix a bod policy. misapplication. it s an unconstitutional declaration of citizenship to those born of noncitizens. clear in the writing of the