nominee and he ll lose. with just 14 days until the election, president obama began the day campaigning in florida and then flew to ohio where he tried to reinforce the obama message in last night s debate. america needs leadership that is strong and steady. unfortunately governor romney s foreign policy has been wrong and reckless. you heard him last night. during the debate he said he didn t want more troops in iraq, but he was caught on a video just a few months ago saying it was unthinkable not to leave 20,000 troops in iraq. and here is that caught-on-video moment that president obama is referring to. this president s failure to put in place an agreement to allowing troops to stay in iraq.
likable. romney s strategy was to make obama look mean. it took rush all morning to figure that out. theories like that don t you ve got to think about it. who is in rush limbaugh s circle of friends? that gaggle of crows. ppp has been tracking the circle of rush s friends every day throughout the election. it s like honestly people on the left thought obama threw the first debate so he could come back hard in the second. this is nonsense. mitt romney did get his clock cleaned but far be it from anybody on the right to give the president any kind of credit. the idea here is that the operating principle is mitt romney is going to pivot as hard to the center as he possibly can, to the point of giving
lot of sound from obama and biden on the stump today. they are putting heart out there like they have not before on this campaign trail. joe biden has a proclivity towards aviator sunglasses. but it is this idea that you can believe in obama, that he has the heart, he has legitimacy, he has this moral compass that mitt romney doesn t have. i will say when delivering these lines, which fundamentally are campaign lines and which obama delivered last night with aplomb, there is something more fundamentally maybe more believable and convincing in them. hopefully that sways independent voters. i don t know. i think also they ve done a very good job. at this point and it s a very apt point by you that the undecideds don t trust politicians. there is an authority that comes with being the president of the united states that they have been leaning on harder and harder. you saw it in the secretary debate when he s talking about
who feel he s not ready to be commander in chief and feel his budget is too far to the right, too extreme and not what they want the republican party to be championing. steve what i love about this narrowing is i don t have to pay attention to as many states. i personally have decided to just pay attention to just ohio. so i m relying on you to watch those states. so it s becoming more and more real as we get closer. yeah. i think the way i m trying to look at this map and the way i m understanding, obama is ahead in the electoral college right now. there are two things that romney needs to accomplish here. the first is you look at these obama 08 states he needs to flip. one is north carolina, florida, virginia, colorado. i think he s well positioned to take back north carolina, he s probably ahead in florida right now and i would put virginia and colorado basically in the toss-up category.
currency manipulation. i ve watched year in and year out as companies have shut down and people have lost their jobs because china has not played by the same rules. in part by holding down artificially the value of their currency. it holds down the prices of their goods. it means our goods aren t as competitive and we lose jobs. that s got to end. they re making some progress. they need to make more. that s why on day one i will label them a currency manipulator which allows them to apply tariffs where they re taking jobs. governor strickland, we ve made more progress on chinese currency under president obama than we did under bush. do voters in ohio understand this currency manipulation argument? well, i don t know if they understand that. but they understand mitt romney s history. they understand that he s the guy who outsourced jobs to