you did have to dissociative disorder, they called the reality of the condition of blackness in america was having double consciousness. within the context of american racism, it would be tough to say. more in just a moment. but first, it s time for a preview of weekends with alex witt. preview of weekends with alex witt. hello, michael i m sorry. we were talking about michael steele and howard dean. they re going to join me for a strategy talk. the sunday talkshow is lighting up, and another story getting a lot of traction, the florida board of education has approved a new plan calling for different expectations for different races. an example, 90% of asian students need to be at or above grade level in reading, as opposed to 74% of black students by 2018.
all nine battle ground states. at the same time, governor romney s favorability rate rgz in the low 40s which is almost 10 points lower than president obama s and three points lower than former president george w. bush at this point. voters in several swing states also say they believe president obama cares more about the needs and problems they are currently facing. this is a snapshot here of florida, ohio and pennsylvania. when you look at which candidate voters think will implement policies favoring the middle class, president obama comes out ahead of governor romney in those same three states. joining me now for strategy talk, msnbc political analyst and republican strategist and publisher of mullings.com. rich i ll begin with you here. how frustrating are these numbers for the romney camp and the gop? is there any buyer s remorse? do you still think there is time without some dramatic event to turn this around? yeah. i disagree with the crew you had on earlier. i don t think tha
garrett mow says i despite the content of the film but we cannot consider ourselves a free nation if we promote censored expression. bafpet says yes, it was the kindle that exploded the anti-american feelings in the muslim world. ronald g newton the film is partly to blame. people s intolerance of moss lems and islam have emboldened extremists. atin 0007 it was irresponsible and reckless, and free speech in today s strategy talk, crisis communications. the u.s. embassy protests and president obama and mitt romney s responses to them have turned the crisis into a hotly debated election issue. joining me now tony fratto, deputy white house press secretary to president bush and tony, i ll begin with you.
welcome back to weekends with alex witt. surprising comments from mitt romney in an exclusive nbc interview. he once vowed to totally repeal obama s affordable care act. he appears to be hedging on some aspects. meet the press host david gregory pressed him. i say we re going to replace obama care. i m replacing it with my own plan. even in massachusetts where i was governor, our plan there deals with pre-existing conditions and with young people. you d keep that as part of the federal plan? i m not getting rid of all of health care reform. of course, there are a number of things that i like in health care reform that i m going to put in place. one is to make sure that those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage. with me now for strategy talk, former governor howard dean, democrat from vermont. and a nationally syndicated talk show host and msnbc contributor.
she never had a chance to see. one of the many, many tributes to her around this world. thank you very much. in today s strategy talk, what mitt romney s speech tells us about the rest of his campaign and how president obama will have to counter it when he takes the podium at the dnc on thursday. joining me is jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and joe watkins, republican strategist and former aid to president jrn george h.w. bush. jonathan, i ll reach out first because the title of your most recent column, what you call dog whistles in the romney campaign. the secret messages to drum up racial anxiety? they re not quite secret. in the moerntd era it goes back to richard nixon when he would talk about law and order, for instance, it would mean he was trying to appeal to the fears of white middle class voters about crime in the united states or about the maybe some of the