they think he would be a fair-minded leader. romney is making a pitch to the american people by saying that he is fair. but his tax returns and the tax policy he believes in tell a totally different story. this might be a reason why so many people have trouble connecting with mitt romney. polls consistently show you trailing and you re not popular in every state almost. more folks view you as unfavorable than favorable. why have you failed to connect with average americans? this is a campaign about a choice. as people watch the debates and look at our ads and hear our speeches and focus more and more on the path forward, i m convinced they will conclude, as i have, that we can t afford four more years like the last four years. but that connection. how have you failed to make the connection? i m pleased that we have a campaign that s take our message to the people across america and we re going to win. then again, there are a lot
they had every right to ask tough questions. this isn t the first time romney has pulled this kind of a trick. he flew supporters to the naacp speech in july. he used minors that were forced to attend an event in august. i think this speaks volumes of his campaign e. and stlst new polling that shows that 83% of latino voters are enthusiastic about voting in november. what does this mean for president obama? well, i believe that, you know, it just speaks volumes to the fact that latinos understand that obama has been there with latinos every step of the way. the new tax policy, i mean, romney has been talking about his tax policy. we as latinos have children and have families and we care about their education. romney just wants to cut that education budget. let me ask you about the taxes. do you think the 14% rate going back to a story we covered earlier tonight is a
once at the corporate level. so you think it is fair? , yeah, i think it s the right way to encourage economic growth to get people to invest, start business, put people to work. let s turn to analyst richard wolffe and dean baker, co-director for the center for economic and policy research and author of the book the end of loser liberalism. gentlemen, good to have you with us. richard, mitt romney overpaid to get a 14% tax rate. how is he going to sell that to the middle class? especially when he said he qualified he would not qualify to be president if he overpaid. he s going to spend the next several days answering questions about his taxes. that takes him up to the daent point. the last chance to change the dynamic and he s wasted the
show. right now, todd akin is down by consensus maybe 6 or 7 points in missouri. i think that mitt romney will blow whichever way the wind does. if he finds it necessary ultimately to look the other way and unread todd akin out of the party, then he ll do it. but now he can stay away from it because akin is still down. what do you make of newt gingrich going down and supporting this guy president bush he hasn t been in front of the cameras as of late. what s this about? i think newt will go wherever he s really and truly wanted. and at this point, todd akin doesn t have many friends in the national republican party. for that matter, neither does newt gingrich. so newt wants to go be a hero and savior to anyone who will
hour-event. romney was invited out but he never showed. one republican said, quote, romney threw a tantrum and refused to go on until the interview was retaped. obama held his forum the next night. they allowed a large chunk of the audience to be made up of student its. the result was a well-balanced and well-behaved audience. for more, let s bring in a member of the miami-dade democratic party. great to have you with us tonight. the romney campaign made a point last week to say that their campaign, they outreach, the hispanic vote in florida is unprecedented for a republican. then they pull a stunt like this. how is this going to play? it s obviously the same old, same old. pretend, pretend, pretend and