he doesn t have it. a word about the rich. scott fitzgerald said the rich are different than you and i but some of them think they are not. they are the kind of classy old world rich that do not get they are not vul garians like donald trump or athletes and movie stars who spent all every penny they have, there are plenty of people who don t have romney s money who look like they have more by the way they spend, so yeah, i believe that there are moments when mitt romney does his own laundry and knows how do do it because he s that kind of rich. america has forgotten that kind of rich exists because those people don t draw attention. like that senator who shined his own shoes? i remember him on west wing. you created him. i think al sharpton s point is the salient one, it s whether you can con receiimagine the ave of an american. if you re fighting for cutting taxes on the rich it
candidates who run on platforms, then work to enact those in those offices. so elections have serious consequences. michigan voters know that and they are mobilizing and working hard to reverse those changes that were made subsequent to the 2010 elections. with the new opportunity in 2012. mayor dayne walling, thank you for being with us tonight. appreciate your time. you re welcome, thank you. joining us now is special correspondent tom brokaw, thank you for being with us. if you call me mr. brokaw i won t be with you. all right, tom. i m not trained to do that but i will try. tom, when you look at too close to call in michigan is it a waiting game all that matters is who wins or the fact it is at least too close to call right now essentially the headline tonight for mitt romney? if it stays at this margin, say mitt romney wins but not by much, you can describe it as
i think the fallacy we hear, they are in denial, as a minister i want to give them an intervention, they keep looking at the fact that he s weak. when they compare the 08 obama-clinton primaries, it was either obama or clinton that was up or down. it wasn t obama, clinton, biden, richardson, everybody had their turn against romney here. they won t accept the fact that romney has a real problem in terms of connecting with their voters and energizing their base. if it was just one or another, like it was obama-clinton it would be an appropriate comparison. the other thing i think they are really telling is when howard fineman says they don t have a message, they are not rallying around him. they are circling the wagons against the opponents. someone has the nerve to say and newt gingrich doesn t like him, he called him the biggest crooks
tonight? well, hey there, rachel. the santorum campaign is saying, look, we provided a message that we hope that democrats and republicans can respond to and that s why he made that pitch in those robo calls to get democrats, if they were so persuaded by his message here, his campaigning here to come on over and throw support their way. the numbers, as of right now, are not in the favor of these folks behind me would like to see it. the campaign said, look, we have already won. no matter the results, because we forced mitt romney to defend his home turf, his home state, made him come and spend time here, made him spend some money here that perhaps he won t have down the schedule as we go on to places to the south and to the west. from here, they are going to focus primarily on three states. oklahoma, where they think they have a good chance to win, ohio where he had been pulling pretty strongly and then, of course, tennessee, they would like to compete very hard down there as well. t
where romney should do well. wayne county is fascinating where detroit is, that is where we find cross-over vote among democrats if they want to play sh shenanigans. kent county, that is grand rapids, you can trace the modern history of the republican party just through grand rapids, home of gerald ford. the moderate republican, sort of dominated grand rapids back in the day. now is grand rapids, home of more conservative republicans, conservative electorate, lawrence will remember some of the guys known to be moderate republicans, and the establishment there is still moderate, where the amway, the devoss family is dominant. the rank and file republican is now conservative. if romney is overperforming there, that is a bad night for santorum. but this is a place where