an increase of support for governor romney in the battleground states that will decide this presidential election. an average of the rasmussen daily tracking poll shows a first governor romney now leads president obama by 2 points, 49% to 47%, and these numbers come in the weeks since the presidential debates. the numbers in the politics, we are joined by scott rasmussen. author of the book the people s money and michael reagan, chairman of the reagan group. scott, you have the race within one point of colorado, tied in nevada, 2 points in iowa, that s on the heels of polling you did late last week. what s your overall message here? the big story i have to correct one thing. the daily swing state tracks is for 11 tossup states won by president obama four years ago. he had a five-point edge.
gregg: the daily presidential tracking poll, from rasmussen reports, including surveys from after wednesday s debate showing governor mitt romney is leading 49%, to president obama s 47%. well when the poll s margin of error, scott rasmussen, author of wou the people s money join us. break it down for us, a couple of days since the debate and the undecideds, did i see that, 2%? that s right. we re at a point where people made up their minds and the numbers shift from the morning of the debate, it was president obama up by two points, 49 to 47 and they began to move in governor romney s direction and the results include 2 nights out of 3 after the debate, tomorrow morning will be our first update, based entirely on post debate numbers and i ll be on fox & friends when the numbers come out. heather: i ll be very interested to hear what you have to say about that.
with the credit crunch facing small businesses. this is how we re going to actually break open contracting as a policy for small businesses to create jobs. you can do all this as a republican. you can do all this as a bain capital guy but you ve got to bring some specifics, talk one, two, three, you ve got to make the 99% actually feel like you think about their problems and have real solutions that will help fix it. well i think the practical political problem this has, you could have been frozen in ice in the north pole five years ago and they saw you out, what do you think romney s senses are? you ve got to deal with bain. it s not like this wasn t coming. and i have been surprised that the campaign seems to have been sloppy and defensive. they don t seem to have their bane act together. i think they ought to go on offense. what did romney do? people don t understand bain. they understand the demagogic attacks on television. they don t know he managed pension funds, he was paid to
continue to victimize other children. so this does irreparable damage to joe paterno s legacy. does it invalidate every good and worthy thing he did besides winning football games? and he did many good and worthy things besides winning football games? no, it does not invalidate those things. but it may overwhelm them. and, bob, we talked this week with all the more tragic is what gave paterno all the power that he had was doing different things than a lot of programs were doing around the country. yeah. yeah, if this had happened some place else, where it is seemingly win at all cost, and rogue coaches who jump from job to job for money and recruiting violations and all that sort of thing, it would have been just as tragic for the children who were victims. but it would not have had the same kind of resonance as the penn state situation does. because, as you said, joe paterno s power derived not just from victories, but because of what he himself called the grand
continue to victimize other children. so this does irreparable damage to joe paterno s legacy. does it invalidate every good and worthy thing he did besides winning football games? and he did many good and worthy things besides winning football games? no, it does not invalidate those things. but it may overwhelm them. and, bob, we talked this week with all the more tragic is what gave paterno all the power that he had was doing different things than a lot of programs were doing around the country. yeah. yeah, if this had happened some place else, where it is seemingly win at all cost, and rogue coaches who jump from job to job for money and recruiting violations and all that sort of thing, it would have been just as tragic for the children who were victims. but it would not have had the same kind of resonance as the penn state situation does. because, as you said, joe paterno s power derived not just from victories, but because of what he himself called the grand