particularly in ohio and florida. and you are also seeing it nerms of the line in terms of voting. george, talking about the terms of lines, early voting, all of us have been in florida the day that early voting started. i deal with the nonpartisan operation lemon side. but you guys are there for that and partisan stuff. the obama campaign released its memo on early voting. the math is clear. our opponent is losing among early voters in nearly every public poll in every battle ground state, meaning that if the public polls are right, he would have to win 65% of the remaining votes in north carolina. 59% in iowa and colorado. 58% in nevada. 55% in florida and ohio. and 52% in virginia and wisconsin. even if you use the math in romney s budget, which doesn t add up, that is a lot that he is going to have to achieve, george. you are absolutely right. i think that at this point, the
of a diversionary gimmick. it is kind of a light-hearted way for obama to rebound off a disastrous appearance. you are trying to see them take something fun and steer the conversation back to the terrain that was working so well for them, wall street, romney being a heartless captitallist. there is an interesting point. romney s budget would impose enormous spending cuts. and when he is asked for specifics, he tends to signal out tiny items like pbs and npr, had ch don t do much. so there is a substabtive point to be made. i think it s the height of silliness. it has no relevance to most people s lives when you come down to t. i think the obama folks realize they may have had an opportunity to score some political points at the debate and they spent the next 6 days trying to refight that battle and do it in a more effective
well, look, it s clearly sort of a diversionary gimmick. it is kind of a light-hearted way for obama to rebound off a disastrous appearance. you are trying to see them take something fun and steer the conversation back to the terrain that was working so well for them, wall street, romney being a heartless captitallist. there is an interesting point. romney s budget would impose enormous spending cuts. and when he is asked for specifics, he tends to signal out tiny items like pbs and npr, had ch don t do much. so there is a substabtive point to be made. i think it s the height of silliness. it has no relevance to most people s lives when you come down to t. i think the obama folks realize they may have had an opportunity to score some political points at the debate and they spent the next 6 days trying to refight that battle and do it in a more effective
judge jet kills jobs. a new study shows that romney s budget would cause a net loss of 554,000 jobs by 2014. yeah. well, if fully implemented and now you have one of his advisers that have gotten into a thing where he s put it out there, if the numbers don t quite add up, we re not going to see the kind of tax reductions that we were talking about, maybe it s a little flexible. now the campaign is saying it s that s not really the case. we ve known that the numbers don t add up. if you try to make them add up, there are disastrous consequences. romney is saying, if you elect me, you re going to get 12 million new jobs. well, the economy is on pace to create 12 million jobs over the next four years. there s an empty promise there as well. the interesting thing to me is when you look at some of the other polling coming out right now, there s been a real change in the number of people willing to give obama credit for where the economy is right now, where it s going. his approval rating,
behind too. all of those federal programs fund the hiring and training of teachers. let s talk about the police. the community-oriented policing service program, or cops, has been directly funding police hires with federal dollars since 1994. the congressional research service estimates 117,000 officers were hired through cops last year. again, that s all federal dollars. firefighters get hired through federal grants under something called the staffing for adequate fire and emergency response program. about 3,400 firefighters will get hired this year, thanks to federal dollars. here s where it gets tricky. mitt romney wants to shrink government and cut programs and he wants to do it on his first day in office, but he won t be specific. so greg sargent at the washington post asked the center on budget and policy priorities to analyze what we do know about romney s cuts. the center calculates that romney s budget would require a 29% cut across the board.