conservatives in nevada. this is how it broke down decidedly for governor romney beating you in all of the categories, and this is supposed to be your base, mr. speaker, so what is the path for you to win this nomination? what is the rational? well, this is the state he won last time and he won it this time. our goal is to get to super tuesday where we are in much more favorable territory. in florida i was out spend 5 to 1. we carried more counties than he did. we wanted to get to georgia, alabama, tennessee, and the states, texas, we believe by the time texas is over we will be competitive in delegate count. and the key from my standpoint is to make it a big choice campaign. you just had a quote from governor romney that is a good example, he said he doesn t worry much about the poor because they have a safety net. the safety net in many ways is a spider web. it traps them at the bottom.
that he would like to end-all family family support at the federal level, and eliminate that, and rick santorum says he would like to make contraception illegal. you can make it a thing that democrats hate religion. alex, i want to move this back. it s a fascinating debate and will not go away, but i want to talk about the state of the campaign. and david initially brought it up as a way of where romney might be attracting more conservative support. how has he done this week, you know, having to deal with the fact that he talked about not worrying about the poor too much because there s a social safety net, and then he offered this in the wake of the job numbers that we talked about here, 8.3% unemployment. this is what he said. this recovery has been slower than it should have been.
economy. that s still anemic. this is the swing state match-up for 2012, and this is where romney has an advantage over president obama. there s americans that look at the numbers and are hurting. romney over obama in the swing states. david, i think the issue is where the republicans try to run on pessimism. that s going to be difficult to do for them to run on. the president can say, you are right, we lost jobs. we lost a ton of jobs. but even superman needed track to stop the train. you have to understand for the first 12 months of his presidency like the last 12 months of bush s presidency, we lost jobs. for the last 23 month in a row, we gained jobses. you have to talk about the optimism. if the republicans want to run on pessimism, let them do so. i have been pessimism for the republican chances to win the election, and people think
it would get better. we have huge structural problems. we have families falling apart, and highlight the deep structural problems. the message for romney is i can t cruise quoting god bless america, or whatever he quoted, and he is cruising on a bad economy. if you told me it was 8.3% on unemployment, and i would say what was it before, and if you told me 10%, i would say good we re going in the better direction. and a lot of numbers are better, and it s not just people dying. we went from 10% to 8.3% is bad, but i prefer than the way it was before. we re going in the right direction. a lot of people i talk to say you can t look at the number of jobs you have to look at the overall economic growth, and that s the engine of our
enough to point out failures that are visible to any one. we have to offer a constructive program that promises to restore upward mobility in the country, and i believe and certainly hope that our eventual nominee, once freed from this rather dismal primary process, will present that kind of an affirmative message to the country. as you look at nevada last night, do you believe governor romney is the inevitable nominee of your party? you are asking the wrong person. my guesses are worst than they are in football. i finally learned to keep my mouth shut. governor patrick, as you look at the negative tea in the campaign, and the president making not so settle jabs at romney, do you think that will weaken the eventual nominee for president obama?