let me bring in real politics reporter erin pike and politico s alexander burns. good morning to both of you. erin, not only did mitt romney say his campaign doesn t need a turnaround, yet he said i want to be president of the 100%. is he, though, undoing some of the damage that he did with his 47% comments? he s trying to. i think we ll see him try to do a lot more damage control as he campaigns through ohio this week. a lot of middle-class voters right there. and he ll be campaigning all the way through the state tuesday and wednesday. he s going to have to do a little bit more because the obama campaign continues to use this against him. they have a new ad out in ohio this morning that uses that 47% comment against him. alex, romney went again after president obama for not meeting with benjamin netanyahu. mitt romney said he should be more specific about his own foreign policy, and listen to. well, let s see what i ve done since i came into office. i said i d end the war in ir
campaign spent $173 million trying to define mitt romney as a vampire, as a corporate raider. and so on and so forth. and over that same period of time from may until august, the republican outside groups spent about $144 million. so $30 million less. and what did you see over that same period of time from april 29th until the end of august, the poll, the gallup daily tracking poll, essentially remained unchanged. what you really had at the same time was obama trying to overwhelm romney with negative advertising, and the republican outside groups were more or less kind of evening the game out a little bit. both candidates got weakened, and the polls roughly stayed the same from may until august. all right. so are they right? well, no. i think what the journal analysis did is just kind of took what republican super pacs are doing in isolation. it was like assuming that nothing else was going on. oh, my gosh, you spent $144 million, but the numbers didn t move. well, it ignored the
record. they re looking at the promises that he made. they re seeing a disconnect between those two things. and they re looking elsewhere for their votes. let s talk about message because another somewhat critical article in politico talks about the lack of focus in messaging. oftentimes the message from republican groups and the romney campaign is not consistent. i know having gone to some of the battleground states and you see all these different messages, and it can make your head spin. they re on a lot of different topics. could the super pacs be hurting the candidates? i m talking on both sides by muddling the campaigns message? one of the issues with the campaign finance laws is that outside groups like crossroads or priorities usa can t coordinate legally with the candidates or the party committees. so all the activity that we do, all the ads we put on the air have to be completely independent of what the campaign is doing. now, i don t think that the message has been all t
posts as well. and katie psychiatrstrickland f private practice. the dress code here, black shirts and black pants and holding green leaves to reflect the keep it growing theme. this don t take it for granted push could reflect drops seen on social media recently. both of their twitter political indices which measure tweet sentiment dropped since the conventions. and a week on from the 47% comment which you were just mentioning there, they saw a 17-point spread at one point. that difference now settles to predust-up levels. the president still leads by other measures. facebook likes, for instance, romney has 7 million. romney, 28 million. on twitter last hour, obama has 20 million followers. romney, 1 million. but not all of these followers are real, says social media company status people. their engine finds that just 24% of obama followers are good, and 55% of romney s in these little areas here.
to politics now where mitt romney and paul ryan both got a clean bill of health from their doctors. the campaign released their medical records this weekend. romney s doctor says he s a vigorous man who takes excellent care of his health. he takes a low dose aspirin every day as well as lipitor for his cholesterol. paul ryan s doctor says he s made important preventative lifestyle choices including a heart healthy diet and regular vigorous exercise. he also uses an inhaler for occasional airway hypersensitivity. michelle obama talked about this picture at a congressional black caucus dinner over the weekend. now, every couple of weeks, the white house photographers change out all the photos in the west wing, except for that one. that one and that one alone has hung on that wall for more than three years. so if you ever wonder whether