able to get away with giving these sort of vague pie in the sky ideas about increasing bipartisanship and things like that. i want to bringing in karen bass, congresswoman. democrat from california. congresswoman, good morning. good morning. i think you ve heard the conversation. there s criticism from both sides that there has not been enough specificity. let me read what orrin hatch had to say in particular about this new brochure the president put out yesterday. with romney surging in the polls and two weeks before the election, the president s campaign responded by releasing a glossy 20-page brochure and called it an agenda. sure it s got nice pictures but it isn t a plan. it s nothing but a rehash of the same failed ideas of the past four years. you say to orrin hatch? i absolutely disagree with that. i think it is a plan. there are ideas in there that i believe will address the number one issue that we re facing in our country right now, and that
how each candidate performs in those debates will have an incredible significance in who wins the president. he s got to come in especially in his first debate, the president, in the town hall and hold governor romney s feet to the fire about his policies, hess facts and make him explain his contradictions and how his policies will not work. jon: chris he says that you ve got to love this business i m sorry, pete i want to address this to pete. i was thinking about chris quote that you ve got to love this business. so pete you ve got to love this business when your candidat canned seems to be surging. i d be lying to you if i didn t say that we were heartened by governor romney s debate performance last week. 80million americans got to really cut through the clutter of all the tv ads and direct mail pieces and charges basketbalback and forth and they got to see an effective leader, a give a clear vision of how to move this country and economy record. on the flip side they saw
said that to the president. i don t work for president obama, i don t tell him anything. i think his staff served his poorly if president obama wasn t watching mitt romney change from 20 11-inch to 2012, they made an egregious error of not not being a student of his progress. and being prepared for when a great debater romney is. i don t think obama has ever been a terrific debater. i thought he was well matched and eclipsed by hillary clinton in 08. he put in such a poor performance even by his past performances standards that he really is going to have to pick up his game. whether to attack is really tricky now, because if he comes off as mean and romney continues a really sort of confident and calm and in command performance like the one he put in last week while the president tries to bat away at him i don t think that
course if you re a football fan. voters there have gone democratic in six of the last eight elections. remember governor romney s vice-presidental nominee paul ryan is of course a native of wisconsin. so is he a factor there? we ll take a look at some of the latest polls and maybe you can make up your own mind on that. in wisconsin the unemployment rate is just below the national average and it s in line with what we see for gas prices across the country. not in california but across the country. the number of visits for the president and mr. romney equal there in wisconsin both have visited twice. statistics, teny electorial votes from the state of wisconsin. the the state governor scott walker you know that name well. we ll talk about that factor, the factor of a republican governor with our next guest in just a moment. also as far as polling, though, this is the latest real clear politics average, the president pulling away a little bit from mitt romney. not as much as before in t
in command that night not only of the facts but in presenting himself as someone with ideas and a plan, and someone who is indeed presidential and who was nice. he was very respectful of the president throughout, even when he was attacking and you saw a huge bump for him right away in those instapolls. now we ll see polls come in, we ll continue to see more toward the end of the week that were taken in the field, sunday, monday night and see the effect. so far it looks very good for him. jon: the numbers out of michigan, four-point margin of error there. michigan is a state that the romney campaign had sort of seemed to have given up on, and yet this puts it very well within striking distance. it s so interesting to see them sort of wake up to a totally different game this week. they have to make decisions about where they want to spend their money now. michigan is now in play and they ll really have to take advantage of the fact that he s closed the gap there so