something we feel strongly about. mr. president, lay out your this is how deadlocked it is. they can t agree who should go first. that s at stake here. michael is talking about some sort of political science version of the way a negotiation should take place. no. what happened in the last election is that republicans ran on this position where they were beating the hell out of democrats for cutting medicare. i mean ryan with the ryan/romney ads were downright hypocritical and the president has greater political strength coming out of this and he s got his own plan and he s been specific on his own terms and i think when geithner sits around uttering the same talking point over and over again about tell us what you re talking about, i think it s a fair thing to do. i think the president has a political strength right now to force the republicans to offer their own very unpopular we ll see. that s what s going to get played out over the next few weeks. it s chicken. h
i mean they they actually they actually increased the ad on an ad they knew was false because they think you re dumb. i think you re smart and i think obama will be the next president. owill have beenly the former president referring to the ads where the romney ads where jeep and gm were moving jobs to china, the leadership of these auto companies have said that s not true. how is that all playing out in ohio? i m curious. i think it s one of the things that is hurting him down the stretch. you know, if there are seven or 70 or 7,000 undecided voters in ohio, i can t imagine this would be helping him with it. especially like you say you ve had not just the fact checkers who the romney campaign said they re going to ignore that this is false and editorial pages like ours pointing out these ads are false. right. you actually have the heads of these two major companies who
the obama campaign commercials have been 85% negative. you think that sounds bad until you look at the what the romney campaign has done in the last week. the romney ads have been 99% negative. 99%. and most of the 1% of positive ads were some lingering ads in spanish. so all the english language stuff is utterly awful. we ll be right back. gasoline. i am probably going to the gas station about once a month. last time i was at a gas station was about.i would say. two months ago. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. i go to the gas station such a small amount that i forget how to put gas in my car. [ male announcer ] and it s not just these owners giving the volt high praise. volt received the j.d. power and associates appeal award two years in a row. stop! stop! stop! come back here! humans we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world. that s why liberty mutual insurance has your back with great ideas like our optional better car replacement. if your car i
endingen a high note by any means. candor media looked back at the last week of campaign ads anned obama campaign commercials have been 85% negative you think that sounds bad until you look at the what the romney campaign has done in the last week. the romney ads have been 99% negative. 99%. and most of the 1% of positive ads were some lingering ads in spanish. so all the english language stuff is utterly awful. we ll be right back. spanish.
superiority. we so often look at what s being spent. but if you re sitting in your living room, if you re a swing voter, what s being spent doesn t really matter to you. it s what you re seeing. and c-mac calculated that in the last week in these battleground states, the obama campaign had more than twice as many spots on the air as the romney campaign did. so for every obama campaign ad that you see in ohio or virginia, you re going to see half as many romney ads. 17,000 romney ads to 36,000 obama ads. even if you count in all the outside groups that are spending, there were still 15,000 more ads with the democratic message. another thing we calculated, positive/negative. mitt romney ads, 99% negative in these battleground states. the 1%, there were a couple spanish language ads, and there was a little bit of that ad that