was in 2008. and this reflects a permanent demographic change in the united states. it is no longer a country run by white married men and married women. by the time you add up blacks and latinos and single women and young people, you are talking about close to half the vote. and the democrats win that half of the vote almost four to one wishes means the republicans have to win everybody else by more than 3-1 to be able to win. and i hope people aren t mad at me about it. they will get over it. i spoke about what i believed, and i think there was a period of time when the romney campaign was falling apart. people were not optimistic. nobody thought there was a chance of victory. and i felt it was my duty at that point to go out and say what i said. and at the time that i said it, i believe i was right. in the week since the aftermath of the storm, romney momentum dropped dead.
young people even higher than it was in 2008. and this reflects a permanent demographic change in the united states. it is no longer a country run by white married men and married women. by the time you add up blacks and latinos and single women and young people, you are talking about close to half the vote. and the democrats win that half of the vote almost four to one wishes means the republicans have to win everybody else by more than 3-1 to be able to win. and i hope people aren t mad at me about it. they will get over it. i spoke about what i believed, and i think there was a period of time when the romney campaign was falling apart. people were not optimistic. nobody thought there was a chance of victory. and i felt it was my duty at that point to go out and say what i said. and at the time that i said it, i believe i was right. in the week since the aftermath of the storm, romney momentum
wrong for governor romney. you ve had both governor haley barber today and you had karl rove site hurricane sandy as being the thing that one stopped romney momentum but two, could have possibly caused mitt romney to lose the election. we all have to keep in mind that the polls show that this race is tight. even in the swing state polls the president might be leading most of them. but this race is tight. so the fact that the republicans are doing playing the blame game, we are not even at election day, tells you the mind-set of the gop and romney campaign. they are not terribly confident about tuesday s election results. but nia-malika, what candidate romney is not dealing with, most americans agree, mr. christie, governor christie, said. when you look at a brand new nbc poll, likely voters overwhelmingly say they approve
47-45%. that is the second poll in the week that has shown a tight race in michigan. it s not too late to turn this around. we can save medicare and social security. we can cut spending to get this budget balanced and pay off this debt. we can get people out of poverty and back to the middle-class. we can get america back on the right track and give our kids a debt free future. so ask yourself, who do you trust to be straight with you, to level with you. who do you trust to stand up for the middle-class and measuring? ladies and gentlemen, we are not. these guys, we are not in decline. they are in denial. you got fundamentals in this race. one of the fundamentals is the economy is horrible. you have the tea party that arisen since 2010. you have romney momentum. you ve got people, people
either front as this race appears to be tightening? both campaigns are in full spin mode projecting absolute confidence moving ahead. we re really seeing the momentum wars at work here. the narrative from the romney campaign that they ve got the wind behind them at their backs. they re going to push forward. the president obama peaked too early and they re picking up steam heading into the finish line. the obama campaign pushing back against that very hard, noting a growing pile of evidence that romney s momentum if he had it and the obama campaign would argue with that has stabilized, that president obama seems to be about where he was before that first debate that really changed up the race. the obama campaign focusing very hard on their ground game, getting out those early voters to the polls. we saw video of president obama doing just that last week. and for them it s always been a state by state race. this idea of momentum versus the cold reality of the electoral