5 million votes. but a majority of the house is republicans in districts mitt romney won. not only did they win, they won in a district where mitt romney to put the number, president obama one by 5 million votes but only carried 209 house districts. exactly. less than a majority of the house. yes, even the democratic impair active of those districts on a certain sense is take the romney vision, not the obama vision and the parties at this point are distinctly different brand and so that stagnation we see in congress is built in. this issue of jerry manderring has been out there for years. democrats wanted to protect their majorities and they did for a large part and republicans want to protect theirs. is it technology that just made it easier to do this? it is really the voters
spending it s moved the needle fairly narrowly in the swing states then you see a commanding performance by mitt romney last week, and a, you know, anywhere from an eight to 12-point bounce depending on what poll you might look at that shows that voters are paying attention, they re really focused on the issues and on the choice and on the future. that s why watching the behavior out of the obama campaign over the last couple days, i have respect for everyone who runs these campaigns i think the oxygen is getting thinner in chicago and the big bird ad yesterday was a really quicked soic and strange response about small things at a time when america is looking for big solutions. and so if this debate is about big solutions for the future paul ryan will do a terrific job for laying that out for the romney campaign and romney vision and not looking to defend other issues from the past. he s part of this ticket and we have a clear message going forward. we have to bring you back after th
to make the case why president obama does not deserve to be reelected, he has failed over the four years, and make the case as to why the romney vision, the republican vision is better, and i expect him to do it in an extremely entertaining fashion, and, you know, i m looking for him to blow the roof off the place. in a sense i think there is the potential here, we ll see, the potential for what we saw with barack obama s keynote in 2004 in boston. he s a much bigger figure than obama was in 2004, he was obscure state senator, but he could make a speech that puts him in the center of the debate about the future of the republican party. martha: it s a lot of pressure on him. the bar is set very high. i think the expectations are very high that people will walk away that don t know him that well across the country and say, wow, there is a superstar for the future of the republican party. pressure? he says he s not nervous. we ll see how that goes. ann romney of course has a very signific
this afternoon. president obama said of you, he called you, just after your selection, a decent man, a family man, an articulate spokesman for the romney vision, but he said that s a vision that i profoundly disagree with. what would you say about him. i think that s correct. i think it is a vision that we have fundamental differences on. i think the president himself is a good family man. we have a very different idea of how to take this country forward. the president has given us utter failure when it comes to creating jobs and bringing fiscal discipline to washington. if we stick with the same plan, we will get more of the same results, more taxing, spending, borrowing, regulating. i think we have a different vision. we know that the t m needs to define what will happen if mr. obama is reelected and tax and spend policies continue. election is about the future of this country and i believe many voters, perhaps most, don t understand how the 16
that took place in colorado this afternoon. president obama said of you, he called you, just after your selection, a decent man, a family man, an articulate spokesman for the romney vision, but he said that s a vision that i profoundly disagree with. what would you say about him. i think that s correct. i vision that we have fundamental differences on. i think the president himself is a good family man. we have a very different idea of how to take this country forward. the president has given us utter failure when it comes to creating jobs and bringing fiscal discipline to washington. if we stick with the same plan, we will get more of the same results, more taxing, spending, borrowing, regulating. i think we have a different vision. we know that the t m needs to define what will happen if mr. obama is reelected and tax and spend policies continue. election is about the future of this country and i believe many voters, perhaps most,