obama for the democratic ticket and make the case for a second obama term. he s expected to argue for the current president s economic policies, offering a clear contrast between the obama plan and the romney one. or as bill clinton puts it, bush on steroids. with a 66% approval rating, the democrats know the guy who felt our pain, i feel your pain, is the best person to appeal to voters. meanwhile, the republicans are running away from their last president. neither george w. bush or dick cheney will be attending the republican convention in tampa. which is odd considering romney s economic advisers were bush s economic advisers, and according to at least one republican official, his policies are bush s policies, just updated. come to think of it, romney r e rarely invoked the good old days of the bush administration, even when he s asked to specifically explain how his policies differ fraumg the former president s. the major planks of your job
are doing that. not necessarily. dealing with the candidate getting better on message. watching and being involved. a guy that did four press conferences over the span of two months and now five. romney re engaging, making friends with the press again is being managed pretty carefully. interesting. i ve not seen that reported before. garrett, know you had that a couple of days ago. stuart stevens, garrett, good work. talk to you soon. well, in the next 11 months we know a lot of you will be watching the presidential race from the ground up, state by state. well, there s an interesting new website, politics in stereo that does exactly that and provides perspectives from the right, left and down the middle. joining me now is nathan gonzalez, the founder of politics in stereo and founder of roll call and senior editor there. explain the concepts of politics in stereo and see if you do a better job than i did, i imagine. i know this will come as a surprise to you, but there s