when we talked about the results of the mississippi personhood bill, the way i presented the issue to the staff today, i said, you know, this is going to be a real issue for mitt romney going forward, because mitt romney has been so shellacked on the flip-flopping thing, that he can t come out and say, i wasn t for the personhood amendment. he had said he was absolutely for this thing that got completely beaten, horrifically in mississippi. what s he going to do? he can t come out and say he wasn t for it. he can t do that. he already looks like such a flip-flopper, what s he going to do? by the time the news meeting was out, politico was already reporting he wasn t for the personhood amendment. i sent that out to the staff with the subject line ha-ha ha-ha. we ll be right back. [ male announcer ] sitting. waiting. hoping. that s a recipe for failed investing. open an e-trade account
drop that by nearly 20 points, please. only 39% of mississippians said they were pro-choice. so the ban abortion and birth control and ivf folks probably figured if they could get this fertilized egg as a person thing passed anywhere in the country, it would be in mississippi. they got mike huckabee and bret favre s wife to be celebrity endorsers. they produced a bunch of really slick-looking ads. they had a ton of religious right money. but, ultimately, a mostly grassroots opposition effort came together against the personhood amendment and to the surprise of lots and lots and lots of people, this happened. the scrappy, mostly home-grown dui opposition group defeated the personhood bill in mississippi by a ton. the no on personhood folks won more than 060 of the state s 82 counties, including haley barbour s home county. look at mississippi last night as compared to mississippi in 2004 with the gay marriage vote. which is not to same that this same electorate wouldn t vote to ban gay
getting out of this recession. it s a huge vulnerability. and i think democrats might be bemused by which romney they get to run against. democratic pollster, celinda lake, good to talk to you. thank you. at our news meeting today when we talked about the results of the mississippi personhood bill, the way i presented the issue to the staff today, i said, you know, this is going to be a real issue for mitt romney going forward, because mitt romney has been so shellacked on the flip-flopping thing, that he can t come out and say, i wasn t for the personhood amendment. he had said he was absolutely for this thing that got completely beaten, horrifically in mississippi. what s he going to do? he can t come out and say he wasn t for it. he can t do that. he already looks like such a flip-flopper, what s he going to do? by the time the news meeting was out, politico was already reporting he wasn t for the personhood amendment. i sent that out to the staff with the subject line ha-ha
the state of new york or new jersey. i don t know where he s coming from with let s let the state decide when a woman can actually take steps to protect her own health and when she can t. the thing is, though, in this case, it was mississippi trying to decide as a state. mitt romney said that he would absolutely support something like that. now that mississippi has voted no for it, he says, no, no, no, don t say i was in favor. is there a is there a secret anti-abortion language by which what he s doing is making sense in some level? is this one of those things where there s jargon within the anti-abortion movement that might make this a consistent position, or is he just changing his mind about what he s for? i think he s just changing his mind about what he s for. but it s very interesting to me that the catholic bishops did not support the mississippi personhood amendment. in fact, phillip slafly s eagle form didn t support it either. and this thing has come up in colorado. we
personhood initiative in mississippi. back in october, mitt romney appeared on mike huckabee s fox news channel program, and he told mr. huckabee that he absolutely would support a constitutional amendment establishing the definition of life as beginning at conception. after us asking his campaign to clarify that position repeatedly and him not answering repeatedly, the democratic party then hit him on it through this web ad. and again, mr. romney chose just not to respond. so mitt romney s position, his on the record position to the question of, do you support a life begins at conception constitutional amendment, which is what mississippi voted on yesterday, mitt romney s stated position on the record on that, on tape was the word absolutely. that constitutional amendment then fails in mississippi by 16 points and the new headline on politico.com today wait for it mitt romney says he s being falsely characterized as supporting a proposed amendment to define a fertilized egg as