long-term, bp s made a five hundred million dollar commitment to support scientists studying the environment. and the gulf is open for business - the beaches are beautiful, the seafood is delicious. last year, many areas even reported record tourism seasons. the progress continues. but that doesn t mean our job is done. we re still committed to seeing this through. welcome back to weekend ws weekends with alex witt. here are dnc chairwoman rather debbie wasserman schultz, reince priebus and robert gibbs. take a listen to them all. what we certainly don t need to do and i think folks at home are listening to mitt romney saying we should go back there go back to the failed policies of the past, repeat the same
polls, gallup had a poll out showed 68% of voters still blame bush for part, 49% of republicans still lay blame on bush in terms of the state of the economy. i think one of the things they are obviously trying to do is really make this argument that democrats do it better. that is essentially their argument. you will hear president obama talk about bill clinton, for instance, the 20 million jobs created under that they will try to tie mitt romney to bush and just generic republicans because they do have a sense people do still blame bush and polls show that and also congress, especially the republican-controlled house, isn t really held in high regard. i think they are going to continue to do this feel like it s working but i think you will see some push back from republicans. you saw mitt romney have an ad out recently, he was splicing in all of the instances where president obama was blaming some outside force, be it bush, be it a hurricane, be it a tsunami,
i think tim paul len city right. sarah palin hangs heavy over this choice. no one wants to make that same mistake, which is what many people consider it had last time, which is to dominate someone most people thought was not quite up to the job of being president on day one. surprised in that report there is no mention of chris christie, who i think some people really want to see him because they feel like he has got some fire in his belly. he certainly seems to be very publicly saying, oh, if i m on the list, i would certainly consider t another surprise about this whole process is how public the audition process s you see these guys out there on the sunday shows, on the stump with mitt romney, very much a departure from the past. steve, your thoughts? two things. very interesting developments in the last couple of days. one is ann romney saying publicly that a woman could get the slot. she is very close to the governor, obviously. that raises the prospect of condoleezza rice, a b
for the economy. you are going to hear from romney, obama is out of excuses answered should be out of time. bhoufrnlt this steve, republicans, not surprisingly, going after the president, the latest jobs numbers, even with that june report, latest gallup poll shows the president and governor romney neck in neck. what does that say and should the romney camp be concerned? do you get inklings they are concern about the numbers? what it says is this is not a referendum on the president f it were the president would be trailing governor romney by ten points or more. it is a choice, starting to turn into a choice the voters are looking now at mitt romney as the alternative. he hasn t made the sale yet. it sells us that barack obama could win this election. should the romney campaign in boston be concerned? absolutely. two month nas row of bad job numbers, particularly in the swing states, not only is mitt romney not scoring, he is trailing in those states.
cute, tough check it out. those are your fast five headlines. very proud of our new venture, nbc latino.com just launched this past week and office politics, i talked with the man at the top, chris pena. we discussed the effects of a potential marco rubio veep pick but i began by asking him how mitt romney s stand on immigration is playing out in the latino population. hasn t gone over well, if you look at the numbers. really when latinos are asked about just on a straight party basis to vote forth republican candidate would you prefer the democratic candidate for president, they are leaning by almost 40 points toward president obama. can mitt romney pivot and gain the latino vote? has the die been cast there?