he s not in a stronger position. here is how the washington post reports çit. quote, one prominent adviser told him to sharpen his use of code words and create small pictures, vivid imagery to connect with voters. another to say romney s message is too business like and broad. so, can the romney campaign reset the gps? let s go inside with rob johnson. we are joined by doug, former senior adviser to al gore and hillary clinton s presidential campaigns and garrett who is following mitt romney. four weeks now mitt romney has been stressing his business record. in the past couple weeks he s trying new lines on his stump speech. let me play a few for you. in my church, we don t have a professional ministry.
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first of all, if people are describing this accurately in polls it is far more important than the poll you described. leaders are to lead. i don t consult polls to tell us what policy should be. leaders change the poll. we are leading in the house. we are not seeing this leadership from the president of united states. wow. that was of course paul ryan on meet the press the other day defending the house approved budget plan that would end medicare as we know(çit. the senate is going it take that measure up either in the next two day. one of the next two day. that s coming up tonight in the special house race outside of buffalo. we will test it tonight politically. if that democrat wins in that republican seat up there, look out. will democrats, our question right now, hold this around the
now çit s time to call in washington correspondent for the nation john nichols. great reporting on this. you ve done some outstanding work on this, my friend. you write that walker, the campaign, has returned nearly $45,000 to gardner during the early stages of the investigation. explain why we re just starting to find out about all of this. it s really a fascinating story, ed. bill gardner got caught out on this better part of a year ago when his girlfriend ratted him out. that started a very long and detailed investigation. once it began the walker campaign realized they had to get that money out of their accounts pretty quick but they didn t get all the gardner money out and also they maintained this ongoing relationship. remarkably enough, when they got in trouble last year on taking money from gardner it wasn t the first time that it happened. back in 2005 when walker was thinking of running for governor they got an illegal contribution
joining us now is crystal ball, candidate in virginia. thanks for having me back. i appreciate çit. of course. it s really interesting because this is really not a new thing. i think for years and years, women have been dele git mized. i think that s true. the new twist is that now that we have facebook, now that so many of us live so much of our lives online, and so much of it is recorded digitally, what does that mean? i think i am sort of the first person who s had to face this particular thing, but i don t think i m the last, so part of the reason i believe the story has gotten so much traction is because we have to ask ourself