polls, gallup had a poll out showed 68% of voters still blame bush for part, 49% of republicans still lay blame on bush in terms of the state of the economy. i think one of the things they are obviously trying to do is really make this argument that democrats do it better. that is essentially their argument. you will hear president obama talk about bill clinton, for instance, the 20 million jobs created under that they will try to tie mitt romney to bush and just generic republicans because they do have a sense people do still blame bush and polls show that and also congress, especially the republican-controlled house, isn t really held in high regard. i think they are going to continue to do this feel like it s working but i think you will see some push back from republicans. you saw mitt romney have an ad out recently, he was splicing in all of the instances where president obama was blaming some outside force, be it bush, be it a hurricane, be it a tsunami,
it s 100% money back guaranteed. try it for your next backyard barbeque. it s time for the big three, today s topics, framing jobs the third man and must reads. erin mcpike in studio here with me, morris reed and 2008 consultant to mitt romney and the senior adviser to michele bachmann in 2012, wesley donahue. good to have all three of you here. wesley, i will reach out to you first go first to framing jobs. the new op ed in the new york times asks why the recovery under president obama has not been stronger, here is what it sways a quote. part of the reason is the result of obstructionist republican politics, including the fiasco in 2007 over raising the debt ceiling which dented confidence in congress ability to steer the economy. so as an analyst, wily, doesn t
what is president obama s sales pitch? the spill. a couple of things and i think what you have been hearing him talk about. number one, here are the things that i can do and that i m doing, like talking about the auto bailout, like talking about when he talks about the we can t wait, talking about the jobs legislation sitting on congress desk and talking about the part we need congress to help get things done with, because people do recognize that this president inherited a huge problem, that he has been moving in the right direction, not as fast as we would like but also that there is only so much within the purview of control that the president can do but congress also has a role to play i think outlining that and again continuing to talk about the things that he wants to dork the things that he would invest in and what the kind of few. chaur that he sees in terms of job growth, that is really the sales pitch. okay. rich, shouldn t the republicans be worried that four months o
two years. prior to that he was speaker of the house in florida, representing representing a district in miami. with regard to the percentages, i know you are not a pollster, but they say that mitt romney needs to gain at least 35% of the latino vote to have a chance of this election. maybe little too late and i think that number came from george w. bush gaining 35% of the latino vote, the last time he was elected. and so that seems to be kind of a magic threshold and you can t win the general election with less than 35% of the latino vote. looking like he can t get to that to that number, especially with what s happened on the immigration front are especially with the president running an end-around on congress and really seizing an issue that hispanics care about so much. so it s definitely an uphill battle for romney to get to 35% of the latino vote.
this provide the president with a pretty powerful argument? i think the entire editorial was nothing more than garbage, starting with the premise that americans ever trusted congress to steer the economy. they ne the president is going to turn us into another greece if republicans don t obstruct some of these insanely liberal ideas he has. so, who does have the power to dreck the economy, steer it, wesly? is it the president? a lot of analysts who say he does not have the power to do it. no listen, all that congress and the president need to do is just simply get out of the way. it is going to be small business people like right here in main street, south carolina, going to do it not congress, not the president of the united states. erin, take a listen to what the president had to say thursday about all this while he was campaigning in ohio. here that is. what is holding us back from meeting our challenges, it is not a lack of ideas, it is not a