i really want to help. i do believe in you, but we need answers. we need jobs and we need health care. i m sorry. i really at the end of my rope. i understand i certainly hope and pray for you. that s why i m running, i want to help people like yourself. god be with you. it feels like my whole world is falling apart. please, if you win and go on to washington, d.c., save the families of america. that was a scene captured by abc news on the trail at the beginning of this year on the night of the iowa caucuses which mitt romney was falsely reported to have won that night when only eight votes separated mitt romney and rick santorum. as it happened a couple of weeks later we could report rick santorum won that night. the romney victory was not the only falsehood we delivered that night.
later we could report rick santorum won that night. the romney victory was not the only falsehood we delivered that night. here s how abc news presented that woman s plea to mitt romney. i wanted to show you a moment here earlier today, a supporter approaching romney and saying if you are elected, if you re sent to washington, you ve got to do something about the jobs. she doesn t have one, her husband does not have one and neither of them have health care. here s what she said to the former governor. please, if you win, if you go on to washington, d.c. so moving. yes, so moving. so moving and so real. and i mean real in the sense of the work of a great actress being real. because a great actress does not fake emotion on screen. a great actress feels the emotion that she conveys on screen. the emotion is real. a great act stress feels that
the goal is still the same, shep. shepard: what do we know about governor romney s conversation with the israeli leader. it s my understanding they have been friends for a while. they have been. there have been suggestions that maybe the prime minister is rooting for a romney victory. something he has denied. but what s interesting is you saw the prime minister yesterday waiving that red magic marker and showing that little graphic about what he calls a red line in preventing iran from getting enriching a certain amount of uranium so they could get nuclear weapons. what s interesting about the romney call is when he came out and talked about it he made clear he embraced that red line something the president didn t. take a listen. we spoke about the greatest national security threat that he faced, the world faces which is iran with nuclear capability. we spoke about his assessment of where the red line ought to be drawn. and my own views with regards to iran. now, as he said,
issues, look in command and one thing obama will do, he will project confidence and he ll play off his experience. yeah, but romney seems to have the edge among a lot of voters on foreign policy, but i think it s actually on the economics where the task for romney is clear, he basically has to explain how his plan will grow the economy and jobs and has to puncture this obama myth that his policies are somehow ones of the bush administration. paul: and that means tax reform in particular. obama really did, we heard in the clip earlier, really did go after romney on taxes. yeah. paul: and said this is what they try and only help the rich. romney has to explain why that reform actually helps the middle class. thank heavens obama did that. romney has to step up to the plate. i tell you, i think the table has been set for a romney victory. tell you why, barack obama s approve/disapprove has been 48, 48.
and doesn t want to debate on afghanistan. no, he doesn t. the fact of the matter is, the war is somewhat unpopular even on the right. so, it s a challenge for romney. and foreign policy, and of course, being a governor, and his life story has not brought about a lot of foreign policy experience and he s made some gaffes. paul: jim, if you talk to the strategists, and their advantage they say always comes down to the electoral college and romney simply has to win too many states that obamacare i had in 2008. he basically has to do an inside straight to carry the states. right now, the only romney the only obama states from 2008 that romney is ahead in, is indiana, which he probably put away and north carolina, but florida, ohio, virginia, the rest, got a slight obama lead. what does it say about dan s point that it s a setup for a romney victory. i think that, one of the other things that you saw over the last month though again is a steady erosion of the obama lead in some of