frightening infection that kills within days. and later, it might be cool temperatures at wimbledon, but it s hot on the court. for the first time in 73 years, a brit will 74 years, a brit will play in the men s final. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it is 7:00 on the east coast. 4:00 a.m. in the west. thanks for starting your morning with us. we start this morning with extreme weather. record temperatures being blamed for as many as 30 deaths across seven states. the heat has led to power problems. more than 300,000 people without power, without air conditioning. relief may be on the way. a cold front moving from the great lakes heading south. a warning, that front could bring with it strong storms with hail, lightning, and bad winds. extreme heat and more possible storms, of course. meteorologist sarah dillingham joins me. good morning. where and when is this cold front actually going to hit? good morning. well, we ve already seen this front push through chi
i think what s interesting here is the basic message that romney is bringing to these states really, as krystal says, it really isn t a message in sort of the traditional sense of the campaign, where he s not looking at them and saying, hey, you re suffering right now, and here s the 20-point plan that i ve laid out that s going to fix this. it s really not the calculation this campaign has made in this election. the calculation is here s your pain, here s your suffering. i am now going to try to give you, throw a bunch of rationalizations out there to get you to blame this on obama and vote against him. look only at how the economy s doing right now, not look at what he inherited, not look at republican obstruction, not look at anything i m saying or my party s doing in congress, just look at where the economy is, and to take it out on obama. and if the message is incoherent or self-contradictory, they re willing to take that chance, because they feel at the end of the day, no matte
well, i m a native virginian, too, so i ve got it all covered. as a massachusetts native who now lives in new york city, let me give you my perspective on what that s what i m talking about. go ahead. i think what s interesting here is the basic message that romney is bringing to these states really, as krystal says, it really isn t a message in sort of the traditional sense of the campaign, where he s not looking at them and saying, hey, you re suffering right now, and here s the 20-point plan that i ve laid out that s going to fix this. it s really not the calculation this campaign has made in this election. the calculation is here s your pain, here s your suffering. i am now going to try to give you, throw a bunch of rationalizations out there to get you to blame this on obama and vote against him. look only at how the economy s doing right now, not look at what he inherited, not look at republican obstruction, not look at anything i m saying or my party s doing in congres
decided is we don t need to deal in facts to give them rationalizations. if they re operating from an emotional place, let s give them arguments that feed the emotion, even if they re not necessarily rational. saying that obama doesn t have a plan on jobs, that can come from no other place but a strategy that s designed to feed on emotion like that. so anna marie, facts don t matter. let me show you this. romney had two events this morning that were within an hour of each other. i want you to watch. look how he takes on held his take on congress change depending on who he was speaking before. watch this. you also hope that congress would look from time to time at how an act is being implemented and how it s being use d as congress gives a blank check, if you will, in terms of their authority. he s looking around for someone to blame. he s trying to blame congress. he had his way with congress, and what he did didn t produce the results we were looking for. looks like different
actually said. senator mccain s campaign actually said and i quote if we keep talking about the economy, we re going to lose. joining me now is steve carnacki, political columnist for salon.com and msnbc political analyst. he s writing about mitt s empty jobs boast today. and anna marie koch, for the guardian. steve, seems different this time around, don t you think? it really does. what romney is trying to do is basically give voters rationalizations. the assumption of the romney campaign is, look, if the anxiety of the average voter is high enough because of where the economy is, they re going to look for reasons to vote against him. what the romney campaign has