and the economy next week. romney and ryan will be on a three-day bus trip, cleveland to toledo to dayton. this is the all-important state of ohio where they feel they ve got the opportunity to make up some lost ground there. is this their best and one of their last chances to do so? i don t think the bus tour is the last opportunity. i really think if you look closely the only thing that changes is the debates. romney s been campaigning in a bunch of states throughout the election cycle. ohio. obama was ahead by four points in may. he was ahead by four points in june. still ahead by about four points. from a retail politics standpoint, romney got a lot of grief for taking the last five days off to just go on fundraising visits. sorry, thomas. yes. but the retail stuff for romney, he s not great at that. this now helps him. if you look at the states he s done retail stops he hasn t moved numbers there. the debates are the only thing-polls show people have an
a scoring run against president obama if he hopes to win. and on top of that hit like a half court shot at the buzzer. so it s possible but it takes a lot of effort. but more in sports, aren t these unforced errors by romney? i mean, the president and their campaign they re able to capitalize on some really bad remarks, some gaffes, some trigger-happy firing from the campaign whereas the president said that they shoot first and aim later. you re right. so it looks like that maybe mitt romney got into some foul trouble on top of that. maybe that s the more accurate read of that. msnbc just turned into espn. before i let you go, gop senators running in this election across this country, some are distancing themselves from mitt romney because of that 47% remark that was secretly recorded in florida. have others within the party been critical of this campaign? has anything like this in recent memory truly happened to someone on the right? no.
there s a democrat that occupy this is building behind me. jeff sessions had the reply. he s the top republican on the budget committee in the senate. they balanced their family budgets only to find out that the united states senate on the democratic control will not even bring a budget plan to the senate floor. people should know that the republican-led house, on the other hand, met its obligations. most significantly it passed a budget to rescue america from a debt crisis. this is an election year. you hear a lot of hyperbole. you can t find one sane economist that doesn t say if they don t do something about that fiscal cliff, the raising of the tax rates, cutting of government spending it will not lead to something close to an economic catastrophe not only here in washington and in the united states but worldwide. here s another bit of good news. they re going to come back after the elections, after november 6 in a lame duck session and try to do something about that. thomas?
taxing people more money and not less. let s ask you because you bring up newt gingrich. do you think he d be doing better right now if he were the guy, the republican candidate than mitt romney? i think the voters already spoke about that. and mitt romney is the candidate so we re going to move forward with mitt romney. chris, let me get you on the record here talking about the taxes. talking about what rick s saying, punishing success with mitt romney overpaying his taxes. not being asked by uncle sam to pay that much. what do you make of it for 2011? 14.1% when he could be a lot lower? well, i don t want to be cynical. but i m going to be cynical that he let s say massage his taxes to make sure he did that. i mean, the problem with the taxes for governor romney goes to the heart of what the problem is with his campaign. and that is, when you believe, for example, that the wealthiest few need to pay less in taxes, that they should pay less than what average middle class ame
that she was falling behind. their ads were terrible. she got a good bounce out of the convention, a very good bounce. and she s there were four polls in the last five poll notice last week. and four of those she was ahead. and i think that was a good part democrats were coming home, feeling good about democrats, democratic candidates. and elizabeth warren benefitted from that greatly. well as we talk about that, frank, a lot of people look at this race they say massachusetts, that s such a blue state and this is ted kennedy s old seat. how is elizabeth warren not running away with all of this. what is keeping senator brown afloat? well, massachusetts is not as blue as people like to think it is. we ve had more republican governors in the last 20 years than we ve had democratic governors. massachusetts is very discerning in its politics. on federal elections we re much more democratic, much more liberal. brown got in in sort of an aberration. that was a special election that