but they haven t been able to find him yet. and it is a puzzle for him. he might actually have to come up with a conviction that he has about something, which he s been loathe to do so far. i do feel like mitt romney has sort of been given new meaning to the memory negative campaigning, because he s like defining what he isn t all the time. he s just not saying stuff and leaving us to guess what it is he actually believes. karen finney, you will be surprised to know that rush limbaugh is very disappointed in his boy, mitt. let s listen to what rush had to say about mitt. okay. ladies and gentlemen, yesterday mitt romney blew it. yesterday was a warning, i think. yesterday was a red flag for the romney team. yesterday, and it s the first time in a long time, first time i ve thought this in a long time, the romney team was not ready for prime-time on this
he might actually have to come up with a conviction that he has about something, which he s been loathe to do so far. i do feel like mitt romney has sort of been given new meaning to the memory negative campaigning, because he s like defining what he isn t all the time. he s just not saying stuff and leaving us to guess what it is he actually believes. karen finney, you will be surprised to know that rush limbaugh is very disappointed in his boy, mitt. let s listen to what rush had to say about mitt. okay. ladies and gentlemen, yesterday mitt romney blew it. yesterday was a warning, i think. yesterday was a red flag for the romney team. yesterday, and it s the first time in a long time, first time i ve thought this in a long time, the romney team was not ready for prime-time on this illegal immigration, the arizona decision. if romney s response yesterday
former liberian president charles taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes. the 65-year-old is the first former head of state to be convicted by an international war crimes court since world war ii. he was convicted for supporting rebels in sierra leone during the civil war in exchange for blood diamonds. more than 50,000 people were killed during the ten-year war in the 90s. coming up, is president obama trying to strike a balance when it comes to so-called negative campaigning? we have an obligation to ensure that what mitt romney says, he s held accountable for. details on a new report about what s going on behind the scenes in the obama campaign and the white house says the president misspoke when he talked about poland during the medal of freedom ceremony yesterday. we ll tell you what he said and the correction that s been made today. i m freaking out man.
makes draws down his own favorability ratings because voters, especially moderate, persuadable voters, hate negative campaigning. they see the intensely negative approach that the president s taking to this campaign as it relates to romney, they re going to be turned off, and so they re both maybe headed downward. megyn: what do can you make of the fact hen you look at both when you look at both men, mitt romney at a 42% favorability rating, on the one hand, mitt romney s just emerged from a brutal gop primary where we heard a lot of negative things about him from his gop opponents. on the other hand, during the course of that gop primary you had seven, eight, nine candidates at times going on that stage in iowa, florida and elsewhere and spending most of the night attacking president obama. some shots at each other, but a lot of focus on president obama. so he took his fair share of incoming too. well, that s true. now, the issue for the president here is this: he is going through
so what do you fix first? i think what you don t do is obsess about the size of the gender gap. the problem is the overall level that romney is at in the polls. and i take that to be the implicit message of stu rothenberg in that column. john kerry wonwomen in 2004. you re always going to do better among women than men as a democrat. the problem isn t the size of the gap. the problem is how he is doing overall. i think a large part of this is simply that he s just been through a bruising, ugly primary, where there have been charges and counter charges where they haven t been targeting obama so much as as each other and there has been a lot of negative campaigning. you take all of that out of the equation and start focusing more on the general election going forward. i think some of those numbers are going to change. and if the obama folks are taking comfort from these polls, so much the better. i want to ask you about that, jen. there was a yesterday buzz feed story, and it talked