that has undecided voters out there getting some clarity about why the math works aside from asserting that it does work? well, david, two points. one, it does work. you mentioned that half dozen studies. the president is talking about a study that is not the romney plan. that s what s been great about the debates and why they have helped mitt romney in ohio and around the country, is mitt romney has been able to tell people who he is and what his policies are, rather than relying on the 30-second attack ads by the democrats that have been running hot and heavy in ohio, mischaracterizing who he is and misrepresenting his policies. the math does work. it does fit together. and it s because it s tax reform, not just tax cuts, and it does require looking at some of the deductions, credits, exemptions, and so on. that s what these debates have been fantastic for in terms of governor romney. second, governor romney has a plan. and that s one thing that you ve heard from a lot of folks alr
show, is that the president is out there attacking a plan. now he s mischaracterizing it. but at least governor romney has a vision for the future. and he s got the plan to put america back to work. that s not what you hear from president obama. he s talking about four more years of the last four years. if you re an undecided voter in ohio today, that s not what you want to hear. you know things aren t going well. you know you want to change. governor romney laid out a change, and in these debates he s been able to lay out what he s for and how it works. thanks. we ll be watching tomorrow night. we re going to take a quick break. we re back with more, including a preview of what to expect tomorrow night. we ll talk about foreign policy and some of the other issues that will come up and look at the strategy and the state of the race here in the final weeks with our roundtable when we come back right after this. maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but re
gas, but by commanding the new sources of energy that china and india and germany and other countries are working on. how we rebuild manufacturing in this country. not by giving tax breaks to companies that move overseas, but by giving tax breaks to companies that are starting up here. and how we deal with our deficits in a balanced way so that we are cutting back where we have to, asking the wealthy to pay a little bit more, something governor romney refuses to do, and investing in those things we need to grow this economy. we have a very specific agenda moving forward. on the other hand, what you hear from governor romney are a lot of chapter heads with no chapters and a plan to spend $7 trillion more on tax cuts and more money for the pentagon that they re not even asking for with no plan to pay for it. so if there s anyone who s running without a real plan here it s governor romney. let me ask you and to the extent he has one, david, it s going back to the
he s been 25 years in the private sector as a candidate, before as a businessman, why didn t he have any relationships with women? then it came out that he made up his role in that, which took credit for something that 25 groups of women had done in massachusetts in order to make sure that more women got into government. and then his position is more broadly where he says he s against abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother, except he would support supreme court justices that would overturn roe, make abortion illegal underany circumstances and outlaw birth control. even though he says he supports access to contraception for women, he has been all over the map on every issue that s important to women in this election. he doesn t have a plan to help narrow the pay gap, which is really important to women. women care about the economy, but in a recent poll, they said jobs were important, but also
columnist for time magazine mike murphy. and former white house secretary for president clinton dee dee myers. welcome to all of you. let s talk libya, tom friedman. what are we to make of this? could this be politicized any further? it s totally politicized at this point. other than a civil war in beirut for 40 years, these are incredibly messy situations. people don t show up in uniforms. you can have a flash mob turned into a plan thing. you can have plan people inside of a flash mob. to me, this is utterly contrived story in the sense that this is the end of, you know, obama s foreign policy. i think we are missing two things. one is the global picture. what s going on in the arab world since the arab spring? we ve seen the breakdown of the intelligence service state. all of these states have collared all of these islamists and jihadists for us, in many