behind us, everybody said, or 50% believe the worst is behind us. what stands out to me, if you look at it, you sort of want to say which state of these three is probably the most vulnerable for the president of his leads? clearly it s florida. florida seems to be the least optimistic of those three. yeah. that s the one that s probably on the edge the most for president obama s re-election chances. ultimately. in all of these states, you identify, in the high 40s. what his approval rating is. high 40s. he s getting as he did in the nbc/ wall street journal poll pretty much what his approval rating is again. a referendum among the incumbent. if it s that, this thing is about as close as it can get. lee, we did running mate tests. seemed to me, two seemed to make a difference, moved it more than a point, if you will. jeb bush in florida made it basically a tied race. probably if you just went by excellent to good voters. 47-45 but probably even closer if you did your likely voter
doesn t say which deduction. well, that s the game. you know? that s the that s why we can t get in agreement in congress, because there s no agreement on this. and so first of all politically i get why he doesn t want to say it, but why not get specific? chuck, wait a second. i think you re making some assumptions here, and i know you know your stuff, but he talks about a 20% tax cut across the board for every single american in our country. that s number one, but number two, look what the president s talking about. he s talking about letting the bush tax cuts expire, which is going to increase taxes on those people that are paying 10% to 15%. raising taxes on the people that are hurting out there. he hasn t done a thing about business taxes in this country that are hurting small businesses to hire people. what about the debt and the deficit? the big issues like jobs? i mean, the fact of the matter is, the people that are hurting in this country, if they work hard are havi
obama was born in the united states or not. but i do know this, that in his heart he s not an american. he s just not an american. that is republican congressman mike coughman of colorado. let s bring back the panel, i m highlighting this because first of all he tried to do an apology and here is his apology on what he said on that but i want to talk about it in the broader context of what is going on in colorado. here is coffman s walk back. do you feel voters are owed a better explanation that i misspoke? i think that as i stand by my statement, that i misspoke and i apologize. who are you apologizing to? i stand by my statement i missspoke. to is telling you not to
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those of us who spend time in the real world nope thknow that problem isn t that american people are productive fluff. you enough. you ve been workingingi harder ever. i m afraid he doesn t understand what the word productivity means. this is quite a revelation, if you have the president of the united states that doesn t understand that productivity is a measure of output per person in the nation as a whole, and is driven by such things as the level of automation in the society. it s not not just a measure of how hard people are working. interesting. a lot of economic speak in there, automation, things like that. anyway, later in the day in california, the president hounded romney again. governor romney yeah, he s saying, well, yeah, my 25 years in private sector gives me a special understanding of how our economy works.