we ve got some polls out. and cbs policy is poll is out today. registered voters have barack obama up by a point. yesterday we had the washington post/abc poll out and in there you look at the medicare question. mitt romney is ahead. they ve had that was something that got lost in the storm, is that they for better or worse, they said, fine, we ll try to win this message war first. and the obama campaign, by the way, was a week late, i thought. you would agree about this. i was surprised here is the lesson. romney 45, obama, 42. i was surprised that it took the obama campaign a week to come out with their first medicare ad. and they did. it was the aarp spot. they said they we wanted to make sure we got it right the first time. we didn t want to go out there
fund-raisers. i was talking to the speak of the the alabama house? y, great. speaker hubbard was talking about the roaring eagles. everywhere i ve gone my message has been received really well. i think everything tries to fit you into. how will the convention reset the campaign? i think everything is going to be determined. he s going to be nominated. the majority of the party think he s good enough, conservative enough. i think his affirmation as the nominee tomorrow night will answer that question. and i think every convention has the opportunity to reset a campaign and the democrats will
hours. gets the detergent in bulk. comes back with $ 500 worth of stuff we need. i lovecost co and i use kirkland batteries. i m not sure if i d wear kirkland shirts. the need to say it is an issue we were talking about last hour. i think it s all actually true. there s no question that it s true. it just that it doesn t have the ring of truth. it looks like they re pressing. maybe that s it. that s a much better way of putting it. one of the secrets to really rich people is they re kind of frugal. i have no friend with my old friend mitt haggling offer a palette of dog food at costco.
dedicated to solving the problem. you don t pick paul ryan if you re not serious about elevating the conversation of this campaign to be about the issues, the looming crisis facing this nation and if you re not willing to put forward serious proposals. when can we see a balanced budget? i think even under paul s plan, it doesn t balance until 2014. i was listening earlier in terms of what specific cuts. the first one is let s repeal obamacare. i want somebody to answer my question. in 2014 to deliver we ve had plans that bounce into five years, ten years so it can be done? absolutely it can be done. one of the constraints in paul ryan s budget is he uses the cbo baseline, using growth
away, there are new poll results out of two key battle ground states. in florida, a cnn/orc survey has president obama leading with 50% and romney with 46%. it is within the 5% margin of error. and in north carolina, where the democratic convention will be, 48% mitt romney, 47 obama. there are new signs of the romney/ryan strategy of attacking obama on medicare may be working. a washington post /abc polls asks who do you trust more to handle medicare? romney holds a narrow lead, though still within the margin of error. the same question by cnn/or rc shows a stat cal tie, obama 49%,