obama lost in 2008 and mitt romney won in 2012 launching him to the nomination. we ll talk with him what he is doing behind closed doors. what he thinks is going on and what the true message from the democratic convention should be from the republican perspective, jon? jon: bucolic scene and all heck breaking out politically where you are. carl cameron, thanks. jenna: republicans continuing to ask americans if they re better off now than we were four years ago? last night the rnc pointed out that not one speaker at the democratic convention so far has said the phrase, americans are better off than they were four years ago. that exact phrase. but several speakers made that argument implicitly including massachusetts governor duval patrick. this is the president. who saved the american auto industry from extinction, the american financial industry from self-destruction. the american economy from full-blown depression. who added $4.5 million
jenna: thank you so much, david. jon: good man, david. digging deeper into the battleground states. when virginia delegates cast their ballots at the convention, the vote will be unanimous. the state has voted republican seven times in the last eight elections, except 2008. will president obama take it again or will voters return to the gop? also, a raging wildfire in the hills above los angeles. a live update on what s happening there
back on a road to success. mitt romney wants to take money from the middle class to fund more tax breaks for the wealthiest americans. but, let me say this. when the president took over, we had just come out of collapse and lehman and economy. it was make a plane going towards the ground. he got stick, he pulled it up we re starting to rise. we don t need to go back to the policies and mitt romney and paul ryan advocated for years ago that crashed the economy. they want to repeat the things that crashed economy. plane was crashing if plane was crashing listen hold on hold on. jenna the thing is . jenna: congressman becerra, used same example of plane crashing on our show yesterday. i m not a great flyer. jon the pilot next to me, wondering we have to save the plane. brad, sean, get together for drinks. you re on opposite sides. hang out, you guys like each other, right? you re welcome to come over to the hilton, sean. here s the thing, when
normal american voters. they will not read the platform but may hear about it on the news. one of the things democrats need to worry about on the abortion question, when there are no restrictions mentioned, when there is taxpayer funding of abortions included, that is a 70% issue for american people. they are more than 70% against taxpayer funding of abortions. when you take that extreme position and sort of make it part of the theme of your convention, that makes it more obvious to people that that is out of step with them. i think that is maybe the misstep the democrats have made. on gay marriage, i point out they didn t believe that until like two months ago. it is a recent shift. that is more in line with public shift of opinion. so they re safer on that ground though maybe not as much in swing states than other states. jon: a moment ago juan mentioned. go ahead, juan. i was going to respond to mary katherine, jon and say i think on the abortion issue, which is a hot button issue
to the obama campaign. you have governor bob mcdonnell, who has instituted some things that could help make the president look good. yes, we have seen this in a lot of states. ohio is another one. we have a republican governor who is trying to take credit for lower unemployment and more economic growth. at the same time, that makes the president look good, too. although there is not really a lot of good evidence that state-level unemployment figures actually matter to voters. voters tend to base their decisions on what the national climate is. it doesn t seem like the president has gone the real electoral pulling boost. jon: just yesterday, a former congressman from virginia was added to the state s ballot as a presidential candidate. a third-party presidential candidate. his name is virgil goode. there are fears that he could hurt mitt romney. can you tell us why?