crying foul here in the sense that he s saying, oh, people are cherry picking his words, but that s what happens in politics. that s why when you go on david gregory who has been able to get many a people off script, democrats should be warned not to go on that show in some ways because he s been able to get biden off script and booker off script, too, but when he s in that situation he will have to stay on script. we ll have to see if democrats put him out there. speaking of staying on script, we can talk about cory booker, but the reality is what you have pointed out, having this substantive conversation on the economy and which one of these men will help this country improve its situation. and first read points out obama argues that romney does not have the values to lead. he ll look like a one person in a world where we know the 99% want to be heard from and romney s arguing that obama does not have the skills to lead. he s never run a business and policies have failed, so there
vote for mitt romney who opposes gay marriage, and then this is probably the big headline here, 62% say that it doesn t make a difference at all, and while i can t give away any other numbers, tamron, it does show you that and you have probably seen in other surveys the economy matters a whole not more here than gay marriage. absolutely. i guess some of the information in the polling indicates that it may motivate some people to perhaps support the president. is that regarding maybe independents who are gay? well, tamron, what our poll did show when it came to independents is actually 75%, 76% of independents say this doesn t matter to them at all. where it did make up a little bit of a margin had to do with younger voters. actually, when you look at people 18 to 49, that actually said that those folks actually said they would probably be more likely to support president obama. conversely, people voting for mitt romney, evangelicals, people who you would assume to line up again
caught up in conversations about bogus birth certificates or whether someone s dog should have been strapped to the roof of the car. the country is ailing. the economy is problematic, and we re having, i think, a really good conversation about who among the two of them can best move this country forward when it comes to jobs. i don t think that mitt romney can put part of his record in play. he talks about having been a job creator at bain. he stresses this far more than he does his record as the governor of massachusetts, and, therefore, the totality of that record is all fair game. do you believe that most people or many more will see what michael does after hearing the president, his strongest and most clear explanation of why mitt romney s record at bain capital matters. it s not, as he put it, an attack on private equity, it is as we have at the bottom of the screen, what this job is about. yeah. i mean, the president is essentially saying that the presidency is about people a
were not resonating. so what they ve tried to do now is use subtle facts about the economy and the direction that the country has taken over the last three years to undermine the president. and it s also interesting, the person or the actress used to i guess portray the mom, the married woman who lives in the suburbs, which we know right now romney is doing at least a little better with that group. yes. that s absolutely true. and what the crossroads people and what conservative groups and indeed the romney campaign across the board are going for is an emotional pitch to these people to kind of remind them that the man that they voted for in 2008 has failed to live up to the promises that he made. and that can be a very powerful message for people who really bought into barack obama s message of hope and change. well, you point out again that this is a soft pedal approach, but the response from
romney s record at bain capital. the president giving his strongest defense yet on the strategy. the reason this is relevant to the campaign is because my opponent, governor romney, his main calling card for why he thinks he should be president is his business experience. and so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is, i knew how to make a lot of money for investors, then you re missing what this job is about. and in a response, mitt romney released a statement saying, quote, what this election is about is the 23 million americans who are still struggling to find work and the millions who have lost their homes and have fallen into poverty. president obama refuses to accept moral responsibility for his failed policy. today romney adviser and former new hampshire governor john sununu said it is fair game to examine romney s record at bain but seconds later slammed the president s strategy.