christians in the middle east. speak of the president made it clear, he s the first president ever to go to the u.n. and called us out and he made the pt 80% of the world s population lives in countries where they do not enjoy religious freedom and christians are at the forefront of being targeted. it s terrific. laura: governor huckabee, the amazing thing is, the list of countries that have are just the most brutally vicious to the there is substance. north korea, afghanistan, somalia, libya, yemen, iran, india, syria, many of them of course muslim countries, north korea just persecuting everyone, how important is this? as all of this other stuff is running around, climate change issue, the ukraine issue, but the president in the midst of all of this goes and speaks for these people who basically with extraction of the activists who are trying to get the word out, voiceless? i think people are saying that folks are dying but they can t point to any obituaries
new york times /cbs poll. bob schrum, does somebody have an advantage beyond the numbers that shows this is a razor-tight race? i think there are a couple of things underneath these numbers that are actually pretty good for the president. first of all, as nate silver from the times has pointed out, the president has led in 80 pgt of t 80% of the polls in the swing states. secondly, romney is losing hispanics by 48 points. as steve will tell you, you can t lose hispanics by 48 points, be a republican candidate and get elected president. thirdly, i think romney insisted so strongly that this was purely a referendum. if you feel badly about the economy, vote for me, i m not going to tell you much else about myself, that he opened a way for the president to define him during what i regard as a critical summer season. i think when you look at the numbers there s some news in there that s very bad for president obama. the fact is that the approval level for people his handling
bob schrum, does somebody have an advantage beyond the numbers that shows this is a razor-tight race? i think there are a couple of things underneath these numbers that are actually pretty good for the president. first of all, as nate silver from the times has pointed out, the president has led in 80 pgt of t 80% of the polls in the swing states. secondly, romney is losing hispanics by 48 points. as steve will tell you, you can t lose hispanics by 48 points, be a republican candidate and get elected president. thirdly, i think romney insisted so strongly that this was purely a referendum. if you feel badly about the economy, vote for me, i m not going to tell you much else about myself, that he opened a way for the president to define him during what i regard as a critical summer season. i think when you look at the numbers there s some news in there that s very bad for president obama. the fact is that the approval level for people his handling of the economy is now in the 30s
tooth and nail, conservatives debt set against it, 78% of the country wanted that to be repealed. how liberal is this country when you go issue by issue? let s go to a third issue, citizens united, that it allowed unlimited spending. now, this idea of reforming the spending in our politics is considered to be generally a liberal ideal, everyone should agree with it, if you ask me, turns out everybody does agree with t 80% of the country hated the citizens united ruling, they didn t want it and what they want is reform and campaign financing cause they know that our politicians are bought. now, if you are still not convinced, let s go to how to balance the budget, because the people in washington tell us, hey, you know what, on you don t understand, cenk what we got to do we cut to cut social security and medicare and that is way to do it and give tax cuts to the rich, just gave as 407 billion tax cut to the top 2%. they just did that, right?