time around a race that s that tight and winds up with such a disparate result on election day? i think there are people who want to vote for mitt romney. but he has to convince them he s not the monger and tax cheat. that he s a nice buy with the best interests of america at heart. in fact he wants to move this country forward. ronald reagan ran a smart campaign. it was not a negative campaign. it was a positive campaign an moved it forward. i think people are looking for someone to be positive about america. you have the case where barack obama does nothing but blame the past instead of moving us forward. with mitt romney he can learn a lot from the 1980 campaign. megyn: dan rather talking about how president carter struggled with his base. he consistently ran ahead of his job approval rating, trying to
i think what s the thing out there right now and we saw this before the republican convention. people made up their minds about barack obama. they decided they like him, they don t like him. they have a favorable opinion of him or they don t. or they have a job he profl rating. but they don t know enough about mitt romney. that s the opening for mitt romney that i think he achieved portraying himself in a positive life at this convention. but for the democrats they need to continue the contrast, obama and romney in a way that does not favor romney. they are going to do that. the republicans have taken to saying the president was handed a bad hand. inferring it was bad luck. they will say not was bad policies and romney and ryan want to go back to those policies that got us in this mess. the president had to finish the
party platform as not explicitly providing for an exception in the case of rape other life of the mother. mitt romney says he phase but the platform doesn t. all of this is a distraction. at the end of the day that s not what we talking about when it comes to deciding a president. this is a president that gave himself an incomplete yesterday. he basically said that he has had an incomplete in the last four years. in school my children if they get an incomplete they fail. megyn: i was talking about that with brit. i want to take you back on track. i feel like you deflected me on that last one. it is the issue for some people. some people care about the social issues. while they care about the economy they also care about reproductive rights. they don t want the republicans if they come into office telling women if you have been raped or
don t want to cover abortions are contraceptions don t have to. that s an american freedom and you have the right that. she is turning this into an access issue it many not an access issue. florida if there is a religious organization that doesn t want to offer that in their healthcare, she shouldn t have to. why should she force them to do that? megyn: do you think this issue even though it s on the back burner when you look at the polls. folks are worried about jobs and the economy and the debt. do you think this issue could cost democrats? we have seen in particular in ohio, the polls even out now between president obama and mitt romney, and many people believe that the catholic vote in ohio may not be responding to this argument the way the obama team had planned. i think you will see women in every state look at the entire issue and i think democrats will see this come back to bite. you can tell a woman all day long republicans hate. but you can say it 20 times and they are stil
differently oh, leslie. and how there is nothing new coming from mitt romney except paul ryan regurgitating the ideas that he put forth before that many americans, especially the elderly populationover america, don t favor. megyn: but let me get back to you, lars. i m going to give you the floor larceny, but that s my question. if president obama continues to say mitt romney s not offering anything new, at some point the american electorate s going to say what are you offering that is new? where is the answer to that question? exactly. let me give you a couple of specifics that he could act on tomorrow. he could activate the keystone pipeline into canada, and that would bring more jobs. he could do a number of things. he could make it easier to lease lands to drill for oil on public lands which is down, leslie. most of the drilling that s gone up is on private lands mostly outside of federal control. there are a number of things. the president, well, the other evening dr. ric