when it comes to which candidates trust more coming to create jobs. it gave romney a 7 point edge. on tax policy president leads romney 48 to 45. and on that month. 44-40%. so, dan, you mentioned the tax reform debate and the president s attacks on romney s tax plan. we ve got to add that the obama campaign is releasing this week, let s look at it. and won t reveal what s in his taxes and he won t tell you what he d do to yours. to pay for huge new tax breaks for millionaires like him, romney would have to raise taxes on the middle class, $2,000 for a family with children says a nonpartisan report. you could lose the deduction for your home mortgage, college tuition, health care, how much would you pay? romney just won t say. . paul: all right, dan, first
ask people how closely they are following the campaign. in the swing states and across the country republicans and republican-leaning constituencies have about a ten point edge in terms of their interest in the campaign over democrats and democratic leaning constituencies. gregg: that is significant. right track wrong track national trend. talk to us about these numbers. when you say trend i m not sure that is the right word. when president obama took office only about 15 or so percent of americans thought we were heading on the right track as the bush administration came to an end. it went all the way up to 40% early in the obama administration. for the last six months or so it s been hovering around the 30% mark. right now a couple points below that. this is not a good indicator for an incumbent. the best thing he s got going for him is people aren t convinced that the other side can do any better. gregg: a real quick one because i m out of time. who gets the bigger bounce, the
now determined to call over. great, thank you, joe. now the owe bam paw camp tonight said it is republicans reoccupied with the ad. they are on the road talking healthcare and tax cuts. the romney campfiring backhanded it to obama saying you turn small things in big things when you don t have a campaign. who will fill out the republican ticket is still any one s guess. karl cameron tells us the latest polling indicates governor romney may need some help. mitt romney raced around manhattan fundraising as speculation reached frenzied legals about the presidential pick vice presidential pick. romney has a 3 point edge also ahead by 8 points when it comes
bill: if the election were held tomorrow, who would win? obama. because if you look at all the polls, he averages 2 point edge in the popular vote. it s almost inconceivable that you would have that strong an excess in the overall vote and lose in the electriccable college. bill: charles joins us now from washington. i bet you got a lot of reaction to that. i did. but i feel like a presidential candidate. you quoted me out of context. i then continued to say the election is not being held tomorrow and it s going to be held in november and then romney was going to win and i gave the reasons why that s true. i have seen all over the internet people saying i predicted obama is going to win. bill: no, no, no. today, we didn t do that. the internet the internet did that. bill: they did. but instructive because the reason i asked the question is because we re at a place now where i feel it s almost inexplicable that the president is running so strong
owned by our parent company suggesting that voters are really getting increasingly nervous about this economy. very anxious. when you look at this poll, there is tough signs for the president about the economy saying that half of registered voters are feeling less optimistic about the direction of the economy and only 27% of voters predict it will get better over the next year. that s problematic for the president. on the other hand, if you look at the big picture, the poll does give the president overall edge of 49% to 43% over romney nationwide. and in a sample of 12 battle ground states, the president had an 8 point edge over rom anymore. the bottom line is, look: the president is still sort of winning this race by a small margin, at least in the lead. but those economic signs are still very worrisome for him right now, shep. shepard: 20 point lead in likability. are republicans concerned about that? they are. i spoke to a very senior romney advisor about this yesterday who sa