examples the campaign is picking out. he acknowledged results were less than great for laid off employees. the romney campaign is convinced, they may not be right but they are convinced the more people learn about the complete facts what he did at bain, that is something they will look at in a way that won t hurt him but will help him. they are eager to explain more, more about his biography, try to explain what he did at bain and the pre miss of the campaign is i m a business guy, i know how to get things done. democrats say that is not true they may be overstating the case. perhaps focusing too much on this, if it s not in the long run a winning hand. they are going on the attack and in the new york times they wrote about it, the president walk as fine line he s going after bain at the same time he s going in and asking these guys for money. this is something bill clinton
silicon valley. check out where the money stands now. these are totals including the campaigns, political parties and super pacs. obama has a 2-1 cash advantage over romney, but that was 10-1 less than two months ago. i m joined by bill burton, strategist and cofounders of priority usa action and former white house press secretary. good morning, good to see you. good to see you. common sense would tell you the president and supporters outspent the romney camp. race is very tight, why? one number that wasn t included crossroads had $70 million on hand. there is more parity than the graphic suggested. does that give you pause? absolutely. this will be a close election, hundreds of millions of dollars from the right wing will be pouring in to defeat president obama to get mitt romney elected mostly because of what he would
helping secure our kids futures. president romney stands up to china on trade and demands they play by the rules. president romney begins repealing job killing regular layings that are costing the economy billions. let me get your reaction to the last part, because we heard similar phraseology, job killing regulations, that are costing the economy billions. i think it s tremendously overstated the president came in office, and what he did was he eliminated a lot of regulations but put in place some safety measures to make sure that industries were looking out for the interests of the people who lived around plants, he made sure mercury levels were lower than they ve ever been, trying to bring down the level of green house gases, things that make a difference in people s lives, not just their health but pocketbook. the more fuel efficient cars the more you re saving every time you go to the pump. the thing most interesting about
the program trying to allow students to have vouchers and move to different schools, better performing schools but i tell you what this does is very interesting on mitt romney s part. it brings up a real spaz issue, it gives him street cred, i ll fight against the unions, but allows him to float a test balloon and say look i can make this education system better let s see if this is something i can rally the base behind rally the country behind the idea of allowing more competition, among the education system taking the business model he used as someone at bain capital, someone as governor and see if that works in the education system. let me ask chris, if this is a test balloon, how does the obama campaign burst it? if it s a test balloon it already popped, let s be honest. applying the principals he
talking about charter schools and vouchers and taking on the unions, if you will, not to the same extent what governor romney wants, but he set a different path i don t see that with governor romney. hogan, we should say that the mitt romney and his campaign have said this is modeled on the dc opportunity scholarship program created by congress in 2004 and the idea was to provide federal money for private school vouchers for low income students. in ten there was a study of the use of the money and it found no conclusive evidence that the d.c. program improved achievement so where is the proof here this is going to help things get better? well, but where is the proof morme money makes things better. we re talking about mitt romney s proposal will it work, this is a better way to go forward? i understand, but again, chris is right, this argument has been around for a long time and we ve seen no improvement in education, here in south carolina, we ve been working on