aftermath. team obama with pressure to win the aftermath. they will draw attention to specific pledges that are mathematically difficult. his vow to keep any tax proposal deficit neutral. and then cutting taxes for the middle class. and then the obama campaign points out romney did not disagree that his medicare plan would consistent of vouchers for future retiree ls. white house adviser clark argued those positions will hurt romney in ohio and in florida in the long term in a couple of weeks. that s all that matters. in the battleground states.
let s move on to the big three in today s topics. poll position t minus four days and best week worst week. we ll bring in the big three panel now. national reporter for the atlantic, democratic strategist and republican strategist and msnbc contributor. welcome, ladies. glad to have you all with me. molly, i ll begin with you. topic one here poll position. look at these numbers from ohio. we have mr. romney down by as many as 10 points. and he s down in all nine recent nbc swing state polls. are they openly concerned in the romney camp about this? i mean, how are they couching all this? what kind of a spin can they put on it that s positive? you know, i was with romney in ohio this past week and also sought president there. and they re not openly acknowledging it. privately they will admit that they know they are down. so they re not in complete denial. but you do hear a lot of
different aides, saying you ve got to be this kind of candidate. some of them are saying in response to that 47% video, you ve got to show compassion. so all day today, romney in ohio was going around saying his heart aches for people who are unemployed. he is proud of what he did in health care in massachusetts. he s proud of the entitlements he created. but the same romney hearing from another political adviser probably shouting in the other ear is back to the right wing craziness that has characterize the the republican party for years now. and he wants to appeal to get out the vote among the base. we know he s been criticized and he s been criticized from this disc and you too, about not including the specifics in his tax proposals. he says he s going to cut every income tax rate by 20%, but that s going to be balanced somehow by changes in
candidate. some of them are saying in response to that 47% video, you ve got to show compassion. so all day today, romney in ohio was going around saying his heart aches for people who are unemployed. he is proud of what he did in health care in massachusetts. he s proud of the entitlements he created. but the same romney hearing from another political adviser probably shouting in the other ear is back to the right wing craziness that has characterize the the republican party for years now. and he wants to appeal to get out the vote among the base. we know he s been criticized and he s been criticized from this disc and you too, about not including the specifics in his tax proposals. he says he s going to cut every income tax rate by 20%, but that s going to be balanced somehow by changes in
that margin will be on election day, but it s it is a state that s very hard to figure out a map for mitt romney to win. possible but not very hard. almost kind of fantastical, ha his naer to. so many other things about mitt romney it s just very, very hard. kurt andersen a son of the midwest is. i am. and john boehner said yesterday, one the things that probably works against romney in ohio is the fact that governor kasic has done a good job of fixing government regulation in ohio. one way of putting it. i think there are a lot of things. i am reassured by the fact that it s coming down to ohio in some sense because it is as representative of america as you could make a state be. it s not iowa or new hampshire, having this crazy disproportionate power to nominate presidents. i also have to think, in addition to what john said about the auto bailout being undeniable good thing for the administration, for obama, in