obama s style go negative, stay clean. and the article reads in part, obama faces one of the most difficult tests of his political career. to tear down romney without getting a single smudge of dirt on his own shirt front. is this the way for obama to win in 2012? joining me now, democratic strategist michael feldman and republican strategist, john feehery. john, i m giving you the first shot here. is this first of all, i want you to listen to david plouffe, this is on meet the press, i believe. let s listen. i d make two points about him. one is, he has no core. and you get the sense with mitt romney that, you know, if he thought he it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he d say it. well, there you have it, john feehery. is that explains to me the strategy. what do you make of it? bring the guy down well, bring him down because he lacks no core or no soul, if you will. i think the strategy for barack obama has to be, how do
challenged says you got a major problem. you have to that s what he said yesterday by jay carney. they re going to challenge it. i couldn t believe nancy pelosi. he said the findings are indications that two parties must work cooperatively to show a united front in trying to tackle the financial woes. that s the miss partisan for the last 10 years. he says this is an alarm. it is stunning because it s the first time in 60 years this credit agency credit agency has ever done something like this. some people have said, well, effectively, aren t they doing what a political pundit would do? aren t they just forecasting how they know it s going to happen in two years because that s effectively what they re going to do. at the same time, you got moody s credit agency, they came out yesterday as well. they said the u.s. credit, stable. so you got one saying stable, the other says there s a 1 in 3 chance we re going to have go negative. all you have to do is have first grade math u
this any guesses as to why they d take this tactic? it s the best time to go ugly. it s go negative. they ll do this and do cooks on the democratic side or republican side. you know what they ll do. andrea, is this the best they can do, to quote bob schieffer, who had the question, i think, of the month. andrea, take it. the big change in all of this is the supreme court decision last year. and that decision basically said katie bar the door. that opened up all the flood gates and the republicans are doing a lot better than the democrats at coming up with these very strangely named group as the president said, mothers for moms for motherhood. that is sort of his joking way on the campaign trail of making the point. but american crossroads and these other groups supported by karl rove and others, are pouring money in.
remember it. these democrats would be smart to run against pelosi and run against obama and reid. i m surprised that tim kaine is saying that on fox news sunday. now there is a situation when democrats like stephanie in south dakota, when they do run against pelosi, now reporters say didn t the chairman advise you not to do that. i think he might have been off message, but the bottom line, if i was advising democrats i would say do three things, localize the election. number two, run against obama and pelosi, distance yourself from them. number three, go negative, attack the republican. you are not going to win because people like you. you are going to win because people are afraid of the republicans. julie: all right. we appreciate it. with harry reid in the fight of his career. we re going to have scott ration
neither candidate very popular, 38% have an unfavorable opinion of sharron angle. let s talk about the gap of people, americans they call themselves republicans those that consider democrats? that gap is as small in the last five years, 35% say the democrats, 33.8% say they are republicans. over the last several years we ve seen a decline in the number of democrats. people said in 2008 they were part of the democratic party they are claiming to be unaffiliated. number of democrats lowest we have seen in eight years of monthly tracking. gregg: it was just a couple weeks ago that republicans had a pretty substantial lead in a generic congressional ballot. what about now? right now, republicans are up by six. couple weeks ago they had a 12-point edge but it s been