governors asked if they could have waivers to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the obama administration listened. the administration agreed to give waivers to those governors and others only if they had a credible plan to increase employment. the requirement, as clinton told us, was for more work, not less. the campaign continues running the debunked ad because it s powerful. it s written, the welfare issue triggers anger that s easily directed at democrats. this information comes from senior gop strategists. the article is called why and how romney is playing the race card. it says the ad may be moving the electorate one to two points in romney s direction so romney uses welfare the same way reagan used welfare queens stirring reser
time, governor romney needs a historic performance from white people. lindsey graham underlines this. the demographics race we are losing badly. we are not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term. is he right, and what is the way forward for the 90% party? do you have to broaden out? you talk about the white voters in america or any ethnic group. you talk about doing the right thing, taking the right policies. but they do have to do political outreach. there s no doubt about it. that will be seen through compromise. the name jeb bush has come up a few times in our conversation today. i imagine it will come up a lot in the next four years if republicans don t win this fall. how much of an issue do you think it is to republicans that his name is bush? just from a sort of basic political calculations, you know, the links to his brother and all the memories of what happened on george w. bush s watch, how much of a liability is the bush name within the
that to me, says, yeah, it s a close race. obviously, mitt romney can win. that s significant. if obama going back now four or five months has been leading several points every day in a polling average, this guy has been winning the race all aalong. it is significant, and you have to watch the tracking figures. you you also have to watch the jobs reports and the economic news, and then you have to watch how mitt romney positioning himself. we saw on his first major post convention interview, he acknowledged there are parts of obama care he would keep. this was received by a lot of folks and interpreted as tacking towards the center. the convention was the last sort of partisan hurdle where he had to appeal to the republican base which he had no stuch trouble with during the primaries. now it will be interesting. is he going to come back to the center to try to appeal to these undecided voters. there s a very narrow swath of undecided voters, however, so it s hard for both candidates
knee costalism there was she was far right and fanatical in her faith. i don t know the narrative for mitt romney. there s nothing that really works to drive another political story, and then two, this conversation has not been ordained by the political class the way it was in 2008. you know, it wasn t just on the frings that we were having conversations about reverend wright or pen costalism. fox news and other talk radio lifted that conversation on to a national level. on the left liberal media outlets, you know, the new york times, time, newsweek, this media outlet advanced that conversation about sarah palin. no one has done that yet in a significant way, so i think aside p from some trolls on twitter talking about magic underwear, this really hasn t become, you know, a sanctioned conversation to have nationally.
booker and a lot of the younger people in congress, they ve been lead gt charge on this education reform movement. it s a pro charter school and pro merit pay and it s hard to get precisely out of the negotiations exactly what the sticking points have been, but it seems like some of those issues is what is driving the debate here. it s interesting to note that this is actually a conflict within the democratic party now. it will be interesting to follow. hopefully this doesn t take too long. this weekend in virginia, mitt romney the first mormon to win a naum nax assured the crowd he d keep god as part of his message. i will not take god out of the name of the platform. i will not take god off our coins, and i will not take god out of my heart. romney s religion sparked a dpood deal of interest among americans. according to google searches about romney s faith are trending higher than ever,