stages with the republican presidential nominee, who s trying to tell the audience that things are going very badly in this country. that republican governor is trying to tell that same audience, hey, things are going much better in my state, in our state. he s got that little problem to deal with. the memo he put out last week or the phone calls whatever he was making saying, look, don t play up the economy in your state. that isn t going over so well with people like rick scott and john casey from florida and ohio because they do want to go out and tell everybody in their state what great governors they are and how they turned the economy around. andsh of course, governor romney wants to make sure people feel terrible so they will vote for anybody but barack obama. that s essentially the core problem of the romney campaign. he s got two big problems. the first is that people think he s for the 1%, not for the 99%, by about 3-1. and the second problem that he has is that he can t
the worst republican in the country, which includes you, worst of you. yeah. he was right. yeah. on this subject. yeah. i ve been saying for a few years now actually that mitt romney is uniquely challenged as a candidate, not just because of romney care, but also because it s kind of a terrible time to be a wealthy guy and run for president. we re in the midst of this argument over class and he s sort of puts all of that under a microscope. i m not saying he s not qualified, but he s a uniquely challenged republican candidate right now. and this is exactly why romney wanted to pivot off of health care quickly. the gop base and congressional republicans want to talk about the supreme court s decision and how this is going to help them down ballot, mitt romney knows this is a loser for him and the fact he s allowing his spokes person to say something really
apparently. and secondly, you know, i think romney depends on the time of day. it does. where the sun hits the horizon. it s up to romney to go into these states where employment is better than the national average and say these are not because of the president s policies if they were you would make the natural conclusion unemployment would be down everywhere. it s a hard sell but that s what he is challenged to do in these states. in ohio, there s plenty of evidence that the president s policies with the auto bailout? particular had something to do with that. that s another huge problem for see, this is the problem. santorum may have been right. he s probably the worst candidate of the field, even though the best organized and probably the most capable probably the worst candidate of the field because when you go if you need to win michigan and ohio and pennsylvania in order to win the presidency, and he has to win ohio, he must win ohio if he loses ohio he s done, you
have a lot of credibility left. he has a huge problem. he has no positive program. it s all about the negativity. and the difficulty is that is something you do have to establish during the summer months, the doldrums month, because it s too late to start with your program in september or october. if some people haven t heard about it before september or october it s going to get lost in the noise of all those pac commercials and so forth that goes on. sam stein, the white house has to be happy when they start one of these bus tours into a battleground state, it s always great to be driving right into good poll numbers in those states. yes. i m sure they re very happy and i agree with the points the governor made there. the only two things, only piece of cold water i d throw on this is that there were some bad manufacturing news that came out recently and there s sort of people waiting to see how that sector does in the next jobs report which in turn could be a bad one. i m a littl
income levels for the subsidies written into the law, are you confident that all 50 states will pick this up, especially in this republican world, the republican legislatures in states have to pass this as a new law, the governor has to sign it. in order to do the real reporting we have to check with every legislature and every governor. i have a feeling if 26 states went to the supreme court suing saying we don t want the medicaid provision and won that, why would those 26 states then take on this new cost? have we lost howard dean? i thought you were talking to ezra. no, sorry. here s the big problem with these governors. i have no doubt, ezra is right, they re going to take it eventually and b, no doubt that some of the right wingers will refuse the money. let s look at texas, for example, that s a problem they have an enormous number of