compromise. 81% of democrats said yes, we want a compromise. 69% of ind pen dents said yes, we want a compromise. so you also just have a more idealogical group. they want to see this principle leadership that doesn t look to would recollect with the other side. but dana, let s pick up on that point where krystal is bringing up the point twebetwee the senate and the house. you have this roll call deadline that boehner was a coup atecht larger than first thought.
jobs the next four moments, modest growth at best, expectations staying low, how might this all play out in term he was voters minds, christina, approaching november? it plays into it why you see both campaigns have different strategies. the obama campaign knows they need to get their people out to vote. that is why they are putting emphasis on the ground game to energize people that democratic base f they show up, they feel pretty confident, particularly because he won with such a large margin in 2008. the romney campaign needs to influence the end pen dents and swing voters where the job message works. voters tell pollsters they think mitt romney might do a better job on the economy. the seam time, voters tell pollsters that they think barack obama inherited a bad economy from president bush t is going to be very, very close either way. you want to add to that, dave? i would point people to the robert draper s profile, priorities usa.
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duty-bound to rebut. we talk about end pen dents and really good political science look at independents. when you scratch the surface of independents, most lean one way and call themselves independents and behave like partisans. the actual percentage of people actually independent is he is much smaller than the percentage of people that all call themselves independents. when you get to the small group that are true, not leaners, those are most moved by macroeconomic factors, who are most likely to basically see an election as a thumbs up, thumbs down, i m doing well, a ima he doing poorly, the one most insulated from messaging. so my point here is given the economic situation of the country which is, at this point, largely outside of the president s control in terms of what the monthly johns numbers will be from here to election day, that s with a congress that won t pass anything and with ben bernanke sitting on his hands, that the real place that the campaign must folk discuss in rew
magnitude. short jolt. only lasted for a few seconds. from what we understand, no damage. but, yeah, very unsettling this morning, about 5:30 this morning, carol. unsettling but i dare say californians are pretty used to this, right? very used to it. but anytime it happens, you know, this early in the morning, people are a little bit more unsettled as people are getting ready, you know, for their day. we know that it s standard operating procedure for them to check bridges and things like that and the subway system. and from what again we understand no damage at all. all right, dan simon. thank you so much. like a war zone or an end of the world movie. that s how people are describing tornadoes that tore through the midwest and the south. here is the latest. the violent storms are blamed for 39 deaths in five states. national guard troops are now on the ground in kentucky and indiana. fema has also dispatched teams to those states to begin damage assessment. but one sta