within hours, camp romney was up with a web ad of its own and a story of its own. sti almost never got started. when others shied away, mitt romney private sector leadership team stepped in. building a a dream with over 6,000 employees today. if it wasn t for a company like steel dynamic, this county wouldn t have a lot. joining me to discuss this week s tale of two steel mills and other campaign adventures, obama campaign senior adviser david axelrod. david, thanks for joining us from beautiful downtown chicago. we appreciate it. beautiful indeed. yes, it is pretty. i wanted to start out with something that mitt romney said, characterizing what your advertising is about. the purpose of the president s ads are not to describe success and failure, but to somehow to suggest that i m not a good person or not a good guy. and do you quibble with that? is not the gist of the ad that is not the gist of the ad that you-all put out about bain capital, romney s former
difference. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening, you might say president obama needs a 333 plan. that s how many days he has to convince american voters that he should be reelected. 333. he s up against some tough new numbers tonight. take a look at the new cbs news poll. the president s job approval rating is 44%, and that poses a big challenge because, according to the gallup poll, no president since truman has been reelected when his approval rating was below 48%. then we asked this question. does president obama deserve to be reelected? more than half, 54%, said no. the weak economy is largely to blame. in a 60 minutes interview with steve kroft today, mr. obama compared himself to a captain in a storm. no matter how well we re steering the ship, if the boat s rocking back and forth and people are getting sick and they re being buffeted by the winds and the rain, at a certain point if you ask them are y