final yet. we have 71% reporting, but obviously a big night for governor romney. gingrich at 23%, and then ron paul. and the delegate counts, romney at 83, and gingrich at 28, and the magic number is 1144. where are we? well, the big news is conservatives did so well for raomne romney. i think it s out with a huge issue, the idea that the perception of the religious freedom. it s a sense that we have to beat this guy, obama, okay, romney is good enough. it s significantly healed any wounds that existed between romney and the evangelicals. 80% of people say that insurance anybody providing
romney is a decent man and we have gone to a better place in racial relations, and even the economy has flattened out, and this campaign for the first time is making me think the republicans have a better chance, a better shot. the democrats are making the case that it s maldistribution of wealth. obama and the democrats are talking about mitt romney s paycheck, and mitt romney and the republicans are talking about peoples paychecks. i have been in the campaigns when we start to talk about this guy s money and that guy s money and congress needs to talk about american s paychecks, and that s help to have a payroll tax. what is the republican growth strategy, david? what is it they say would have led to a stronger recovery had a
so i think that there are very large issues at stake, and my goal is to communicate those issues and get them out there. i want to come back to each of these issues in turn, but one more process question about just the campaign. you said in your press conference last night that you want to make this a definitional campaign to disqualify romney in the minds of conservatives. what specifically do you mean and how do you do that? well, i think if you look at his record as governor, it s very clear. he was proabortion and progun control and protax increase, and ended up third from the bottom in job creation, and 48,000 manufacturing jobs left because the combination of romneycare and tax increases made him a very weak governor in terms of job creation. the challenge is to say do you really want to go into a fall election with a moderate candidate. the last two teams we had a
real conservatives have been trying to develop a trampoline affect where we help them leave poverty and find jobs and improve neighborhoods. there s a series of very big differences about the level of change that we would bring to washington. my goal over the next few weeks is to draw a very sharp distinction, between romney s differences, and in terms of tax policies, being like obama. so i don t want to have a processed campaign, i want to have an issue-oriented campaign, and when we can get those issues out in the open, we have done well. you say you don t want to have a process campaign. what you have been doing primarily is the fact that you have been out spent and governor romney has been incredibly negative. you have what i am doing, david
or prepare for four years from the next election. governor daniel, here you have a republican nominee in mitt romney that talks about not being concerned about the real poor, there s a safety net there, having difficult connecting with voters, and then the negative tea in the campaign against gingrich and romney. i believe i agree with those and side with those that yearn for more positive campaigns. i think the debate something a process that we developed here, and every chance that i get i call for what the mayor just did, in order to earn our way back to leadership, it s not