plays out. of course, the farm bill expires on september 30th so there is more to come. luke russert, thank you for the intel. have a great weekend. be well. take care. get your feet in the sand. i always do on saturdays and sundays. after the break, outsourcing ain t just a question in the presidential race but also the u.s. olympic committee. the fashion faux pas that is uniting congress, next. [ male announcer ] this is rudy.
long can he sustain not answering these questions, because it s very clear that the obama campaign is not going to let up on them. these stories are being written by various news outlets but the obama campaign seizes on them immediately and holds conference calls and puts out ads and web ads and we had a poll with nbc showing that this issue is gaining some traction and cutting into romney s economic argument in certain key swing states. so there s no reason at all for the white house in their view to let up on it. i think it s amazing, i thought this was such a glimpse into the romney hive. a senior unnamed romney advisor says all this hue and cry from the bedwetters who get to sit on the sidelines aren t going to affect what we re going to do and our plan which is what. the talk, the e-mail that was sent to in-boxes last night, governor rendell, about mitt s vp pick seemed to me like a pretty transparent bid to try and change the dialogue. no question.
in the next few minutes, president obama will take the stage in virginia beach, which is the first of six campaign stops he ll make in the state today and tomorrow. nbc news white house correspondent micore responsibility joins us core spent joins us now. it is a very important state, no question about it. i was surprised to learn starting with facts and figures, virginia beach is the largest city in the commonwealth of virginia. we ll start with that and point out that president obama won virginia by six points in 2008, of course, becoming the first democrat to win that state since lbj was wearing hager slacks and ordering by phone in this area behind me in the west wing. there are 13 electoral votes up for grabs. he is in a heavily high military area there today for the first part of today, the first two events. people around here and down there call it tidewater,
union membership. well, decline in union membership over the last 30 years has a number of causes, one of which is the industrialization that begins in the 1960s, 1970s, as the governor alluded to in the discussion earlier, is that you had a number of industries including the garment industry flee the united states and flee unionization for other places around the globe, mexico, the auto industry went to mexico and other places as well. at the same time, you had an assault by the republican right, ronald reagan fired the 11,000 air traffic controllers, 1981. a line in the sand, vis a vis the federal government and unionized labor. yes, absolutely. so the decline in manufacturing, the assault on unions that begins in the 80s but continues right up to this day with governor scott walker in wisconsin, there s no question that unions have been
this seems like as the governor said, a big win week for the re-election campaign, especially given those jobs numbers that came out just a week ago, 80,000 jobs created in the month of june, not good. the narrative has completely shifted on monday, the president started talking about the bush tax cuts. now you have the romney bain attacks which bring in the tax question, the fairness question. it s almost a perfect storm for the president. yeah. i think certainly you saw this week that the president s people have been here before and there s a welcome to the nfl quality for the romney campaign, just walking very deliberately right in to this trap the obama campaign set for them around bain, totally changing the subject from the dismal jobs numbers. the question is how long can he sustain it. can they carry this through to november. i was amazed how quickly the job numbers did seem to fade and that was a tough one. that is really the core of romney s campaign and his attack right