florida. your reaction? well, desperate four years ago, this weekend, president obamma was campaigning in indiana. today, governor romney is campaigning in pennsylvania. i don t think campaigning in states where we haven t won since 1988, 1984 and 1972 are exactly acts of desperation. it looks like the map is starting to expand drastically in our favor. it is nothing we are doing. it s governor romney s message. when you talk about florida. for them to spend more money there is a little bit like barack obama s government they want to throw money at a problem and hope it if i cans it. but at the end of the day, governor romney will carry florida by a significant margin. chris: let me ask you about the point he made. money is one thing, the candidate s time is the most precious commodity in the precious hours. and romney on monday is going to spend time in florida and virginia. shouldn t you have locked up both of those reliably republican states weeks ago?
debate between the president and mr. romney on monday. the focus is foreign policy. i guess once again, this helps the president in terms of both experienced and expertise in this specific area. reporter: i think the conventional wisdom is a sitting president, with the presidential daily briefings, classified briefings that president obama and every president gets every morning, sort of the on the job training, the sticky problems the president deals with from the middle east on outward give the president an advantage on substance, on knowledge of the issues. on the other hand, because the president has a record over the past four years and you can expect mitt romney to hit him on things like the arab spring, egypt, the aset eascend ents of muslim brotherhood, so democrats should rein in their confidence. lower their expectations. worked last time. indeed.
up first tonight, presidential politics. a major shift in tone. not much new on policy front. mitt romney makes a direct appeal for latino votes. speaking to a national conv convention down in florida one day before the same group hears from president obama governor romney began by asking hispanic voters to remember promises the incumbent failed to keep on immigration and other issues. that you don t really have an alternative. i believe he s taking your vote for granted. i ve come here today with a very simple message. you do have an alternative. your vote should be respected, and your voice is more important now than ever before. making his case, governor romney focused primarily on economics. is the america of 11% hispanic unemployment the america of our dreams? we can do better. but he also offered a broad outline of his immigration policies. governor romney, for example, pledged a permanent status for young illegal immigrants brought across the border by their pa
private sector will cause a resurgence, a we rebirth of america s economy in a way that s going to surprise people all over the world. i m convinced of it. it s one thing the obama campaign is hoping the president s speech does, which is having the president lay out romney s agenda, forcing romney to either agree with what the president described or give more details on his own. they re trying to smoke romney out here a little bit. now, romney s bus tour is also an audition of sorts for vice presidential hopefuls. kelly ayotte, she spoke with him today. rob portman joins romney sunday. paul ryan will be on the trail with romney on monday, so as you can see, we ll see who s got the most chemistry with the nominee at this point. you re going to see a lot of the romney family by the way, also, on this trip. finally, we paid a lot of attention to ohio in the last 24
there are some concerns about the teachings of the koran. do you have problems with some of those teachings? well, i m certainly not an expert, to put it mildly. but there s something there that teaches some very negative vibe. there s a lot of hatred there someplace. now, i don t know if that s from the koran. i don t know if that s from someplace else. but this tremendous hatred out there that i ve never seen anything like it. okay. he goes right for the erogenous zone. now, here s romney on monday. let s listen. i believe in america, the freedom, opportunity and principles of our constitution that have led us to become the greatest nation in the history of the earth. this effort isn t about a person, it s about the cause of american freedom and greatness. you know, he talks with that wonderful st. paul s accent of dr. bob arnot, wonderful upper-class accent, i recognize the breed. and the other guy comes on like a street hustler who s good at