places of the country, it s still a really hard time. so it s difficult for a coherent message to connect across the board for either party, for either candidate. that s right. that s right. you know, the other thing that ron brownstein had a really interesting piece in the national journal a couple weeks ago talking about waitress moms, white working-class women who the obama campaign has targeted specifically. and for them, issues that we tag as maybe social issues like women s reproductive concerns, paying for contraception coverage, these are economic issues for them. and in that way, it s been this sort of long-term planning on behalf of the obama team to find these voters and the issues that matter to them. but then you hear, you know, the story of donna who doesn t have health insurance, right? so the affordable care act, what does that mean to her, even? right. i think to hugo s point, this is why this is such a complicated election in terms of the messaging on both sid
we will bring him the speech live, and plus should the rich shoulder the tax burden or should it be spread evenly among all americans? well, that is the battle today as president obama calls out romney on the tax plan. i want to get right to it. three commercial airlines nearly collided in midair over reagan international airport when air traffic controllers were making adjustments in stormy weather and caused what officials call a miscommunication. the faa is looking into exactly what happened. house republicans taking their turn in the back and forth of the bush era tax cuts and they passed a gop plan to extend the tax cuts for everyone for one year, and most democrats want to extend them only for families making $250 a year. well sh well, a senate minority leader nancy pelosi and house speaker john boehner went before the cameras a short time ago and neither sign showing a sign of budging. on september 15th, 2010, president obama said that preventing the tax hikes wa
capital is one of the things he is fight owing bough ma on and the other is taxes. fact, in 20s 10 and 2011 2010 and 2011 romney paid less than 15% on taxes on $42.5 million in income, much less than what middle class families pay. but is that really fact? here to help us sort it out is glen kessler. he is the washington post fact checker. break down that tweet. is he paying less than tax than middle class americans ? they use the word many. the way the obama campaign talks about it, there are three million americans that pay a higher rate than romney does overall during that period. but it is not most. his tax rate his effective tax rate is higher than 80% of americans paying taxes. so the obama campaign is specific in the way it parses words? that s how all campaigns do it.
forward. all he can do is look backward. if you look at the strategy in 2008, it was to undo the damage of george bush. so my suggestion is to do the same strategy, but replace bush s name with me. just go elect me, re-elect me to undo the damage i ve done for the last four years. clearly that worked before. dana: good idea. eric: we think or i think dems are in panic mode. listen to true blue liberals like james carville. it sounds like he is panicking. i m worried when the white house or the campaign talks about the progress made, people take it as a signal, they think things are fine. people don t feel or believe that. eric: take a look at the full screen. this is independent voters trust of president obama on the economy. telling there. unfavorable, 54% favorable. 30%. andrea: he has been doing interviews with the local
for him to do. let s take a look at democratic strategist james carville. the obama campaign s message is he s a smart guy. he says the obama campaign s message off track. i m worried that when the white house the campaign talks about the being made progress being made. people take that as a signal things are fine. new strategy member from carr vil s group. emphasizes people aren t buying it. the obama message right now. it reads in part they know we are in a new normal. new normal. where life is a struggle. and convincing them things are good enough for those who have found jobs is a fool s errand. your turn now, maggie. it seems to me none of us anr or theme director for obama. but it is a quizzical question. what do you do when you are basically confounded by bad economic news and people are screaming, they re ready to pounce on you saying are you