corina villaraigosa respond don t for thpolitical correspondent, byron skwroerbg. he is also a fox news contributor. they have not stopped the slide in terms of middle class people? not at all, john. you remember in the campaign, president obama, then senator obama was talking about how middle class incomes had fallen $2,000 under president bush. they ve fallen $4,300 in the obama years and $2,900 if you only count since the recovery began in mid 2009. so if president obama s point was that under his administration middle class incomes would go up, it hasn t happened. jon: well, is there a definition of middle class? what are we talking about here? we are talking about the middle 60% of income, people who make up to about a hundred thousand dollars. and the problem for the president in this recession is, so many of the job losses were
strengths for the general election that have been overlooked, they include strong ooh sport among affluent and suburban supporters especially those in the northeast. byron skwroerbg is a political correspondent with the washington examiner, also a fox news contributor. perhaps your tongue was slightly in cheek. you say the strongest asset mitt romney has is that he s not barack obama. what do you mean by that. any race is about that president s record and whether they want him to continue four more years in office. mitt romney s greatest advantage in the race is that he s not barack obama. the job ever the challenge eris to prove to the voters that he s a safe and better alternative than the president. voters may not like the president, they may have doubts about him, but they know him, they ve seen him for four years. a challenger has to convince voters that it s okay to make a change. jon: barack obama the candidate