out, i think correctly, that romney on the economy is now drawn even or even ahead of the president in terms of the people s feeling that he s competent to handle the grave situation that we are in. on the other hand, liberal enthusiasm for barack obama is building again. it s back up to 93%. enthusiasm for mitt romney among republicans is only up to 75% so they could be a kind of a catalyst, wisconsin could be used as a catalyst for groups like move on and you call it the nuts roots nation, net roots nation, the big progressive convention going on right now in providence, rhode island, there could be a feeling that come on, we got to get together and, you know, he could receive, for an example, more of these small loans. the social media could be ginned up again so i don t think it s time to panic yet but i think there s real concern that unlike with john mccain, this is a real candidate who has a solid shot at winning and right now, this
out, i think correctly, that romney on the economy is now drawn even or even ahead of the president in terms of the people s feeling that he s competent to handle the grave situation that we are in. on the other hand, liberal enthusiasm for barack obama is building again. it s back up to 93%. enthusiasm for mitt romney among republicans is only up to 75% so they could be a kind of a catalyst, wisconsin could be used as a catalyst for groups like move on and you call it the nuts roots nation, net roots nation, the big progressive convention going on right now in providence, rhode island, there could be a feeling that come on, we got to get together and, you know, he could receive, for an example, more of these small loans. the social media could be ginned up again so i don t think it s time to panic yet but i think there s real concern that unlike with john mccain, this is a real candidate who has a solid shot at winning and right now, this
out, i think correctly, that romney on the economy is now drawn even or even ahead of the president in terms of the people s feeling that he s competent to handle the grave situation that we are in. on the other hand, liberal enthusiasm for barack obama is building again. it s back up to 93%. enthusiasm for mitt romney among republicans is only up to 75% so they could be a kind of a catalyst, wisconsin could be used as a catalyst for groups like move on and you call it the nuts roots nation, net roots nation, the big progressive convention going on right now in providence, rhode island, there could be a feeling that come on, we got to get together and, you know, he could receive, for an example, more of these small loans. the social media could be ginned up again so i don t think it s time to panic yet but i think there s real concern that unlike with john mccain, this is a real candidate who has a solid shot at winning and right now, this
is the current operation of this economy. the question might be will the base continue to support president obama? you know, one of the largest progressive conferences net roots nation, that s in minneapolis and they booed dan pfeiffer, a communications director from the white house. what do you make of it? well, barack obama given all the chaos in the republican party could have expected to have a relatively easy ride to re-election. but given the economy that we ve just talked about and given the fact that many of his action ves antagonized the progressives who rallied to put him in in the first place, there might be be the turn out the next time around. that is the problem that is p perplexing to the democrats. has he ignored the base by some say focusing on the independents? well, he would claim that he is now charged with the realities of operating a government and that involves compromise. but there are any number of people on the left who are so
and moving forward? she had a great performance in the debate. she impressed a lot of people as a smart person and studied and somebody of substance. now she s trying to galvanize more of a base. she has something of a base with tea party folks, but she s trying to galvanize a larger base. she s working hard. we ll see what she does. it s rough sledding. you have a lot of very, very strong candidates who are better known than michelle bapman is. she has distance to travel. karen, you re very aware of what s happening in the part of the country. there s another gathering today as well. that s right. it s the net roots nation. i ll actually here, and it s the gathering of progressives and progressive bloggers. it s interesting they re a couple blocks away. andrew tries to crash the event yesterday but was asked to leave. he was graciously asked to leave. when michelle bachmann is out there talking about things like medicare, that helps to galvanize democrats,