to go back in and sort of backfill it and try to come up with other ways to come up with that 12 million. same thing with the taxes, they said, look, we re going to cut rates and then we ll fill in the details as we go along here and maybe nobody will ask and then we can sort it out if and when we get elected. yeah, but way off, 3.7 trillion, whatever it is. it s way off. dana milbank, jared bernstein, thank you for your time this evening. thank you, rev. coming up, did you hear what governor romney s son said he wanted to do to the president of the united states during the debate? it was deeply disrespectful. tonight, the over the line attacks on this president. and stop the freakout. bill campaigns for the president as new poll numbers in key states bring good news.
voters. much like mitt romney going to naacp, had nothing to do with him actually thinking he was going to get the african-american vote but the optics of hey, i m the republican that goes to speak to the naacp. also, remember karl rove said this to his donors, and romney s line as much as i hated it about obama said he was going to slow the rising of the oceans and i m here for you and your family, they understand that if they re going to get those one in four voters that are up for grabs, you cannot do that by attacking barack obama. you ve got to be he s a good guy, he s a family guy, but we disagree on policy. the line when he said like i wanted obama to succeed because i want america to succeed, they understand that s their pivot point. if they can keep it up to the fall, that s going to appeal to moderate voters. mark, that seems to be straight out of the karl rove focus group data that you don t vilify the president, you say it s okay to make a change and then presumably y