voters about how his plans would genuinely affect their lives. what it would do to help people who don t have a job find a job and what it would do to those that have a job and worry about health care costs and a clear choice, that s the one thing that came out of the debate that we think had helped move voters once they had a choice and saw the contrast between the two candidates on the campaign stage i think what we re hearing is governor romney did very well. this is marine one. right. this is this is marine one. the president is coming for a 1:30 walk through. both candidates as you know very well we re looking at live pictures right now of marine one landing here at hofstra university. that s one of the advantages of incumbency there. that is one of the advantages. let s talk, though, about ross perot. right. you ve rolled out ross perot s endorsement in the des
party memo given to mother jones magazine, reported on two months ago that quoted that the spokesman for the state democratic party said collective bargaining doesn t move voters. there was a poll that suggested i think marquette university poll that asked voters to rank what tissues were in order of what the issues were in order of importance. democratic collective bargaining was fourth at 12%. bret: how much did this we talk about it over a couple of days play in the november picture? well, it s an interesting question. i think if tom barrett is able to beat, prevail today a beat scott walker all the tuitions you heard about between the state and national democrats disappear virtually overnight. on the other hand, if scott walker wins, i think the finger pointing we have seen between state and democrats intensify. democrats will be disspirited. bret: do you agree? i agree. i think the issue here, the thing that strikes me is the drop in membership of public employee union
no. didn t romney go on leno? let s not exclude romney for these. he goes on these late-night shows as well. he tries to be culturally significant as well. he just doesn t pull it off as well as obama. guys, it s not the issue of doing these things. it s the issue of this guy, who does have this star power, the republicans wrapping and kind of punching at it and going, yeah, he s cool, but maybe we need something different now. so i don t think anybody in its own in each incident on its owned go, what is he doing? but that is the beauty or the sadness of what you can do with 30 seconds. is it safer to do this when the economy is doing well? i know we are picking it, apart and i know it drives some intelligent people out there crazy, but as you know, john, 30-second ads like this move voters, swift vets moved voters in 04. the dukakis tank ad moved voters
they try to stir up the issues. but the problem is, they don t seem to be driving the day. and whether they can move the needle in unmarried women to get them to the polls this november, is really the question. i think when you look back at the last midterm election, it was essentially, the fact that republicans narrowed that gap significantly that i talked about earlier in 2012. the they didn t she up in the polls, the unmarried women that skew democratic. it is interesting and a clever marketing strategy. coining the phrase war on women. did it help the last time around? it did move voters, and why it is in the playbooks for the democrats. but the republicans have learned so far, just looking at a lot of