didn t expect him to go. it is not out of the question that he could rhetorically take up this standard. he has to worry about his margins among white working class voters and some rural voters where he needs to, even though he is not going to carry those voters, he needs not to get blown out on them. christina draws up gay marriage and immigration. the president has taken stands on both recently. does the issue of either provide any potential leverage against mitt romney for him. on gay marriage and immigration, absolutely. it is all about turning out the democratic base. it also is important to point out, colorado is a battleground state. it is a battleground state in the west which has a lot of different views about guns and hunting and land rights and all of those things in some other parts of the country, particularly the northeast. the president is sensitive of that. he will be taking cues from the democratic governor. he was on meet the press earlier and asked a question
editor for politics. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. when it comes to president obama, what did you find? we found that, as you might imagine, working with keller fay, market research group. together, we found that as the campaign has gone into attack/counter attack mode that conversations about the candidates are getting more negative. president obama, in particular, has kind of flipped in the first few weeks of our findings from net positive conversations to net negative. it is possible, we will be able to track things happening with the aurora shootings, that things may become more positive or people will be talking less. it gives us a bar am ter. how about check into mitt romney. how is that rating? well, he is his negatives have also gone up. although, he has been a little bit static for the past couple of weeks. the interesting thing is, there is still more negative
people were and how tragic, i think it is. how many lives you saved? yeah. that s why we become doctors, is to save lives. reporter: the accused shooter is due in court on monday? uh-huh. reporter: is there anything you would want to say to him? how does somebody do this? i just don t understand it. those tears are understandable as dr. sassin saw every one of the 23 patients taken to the university of colorado hospital? next, with the big three, it worked like a charm for barack obama campaigning for president four years ago but will this week s overseas trip benefit mitt romney s presidential run? you are watching weekends with alex witt. it s just too hard. then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going.
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about gun control by david gregory. he didn t answer it. if the governor of the state is not calling for changes, it is unlikely the president is going to step on that particularly at a time of national crisis. i mentioned the plan this week, one more item with mitt romney going overseas to meet with the prime minister, ministers from the u.k., palestine as well. four years ago, then candidate obama, you arer in berlin, that thundering welcome there, rock star status. how do you think mitt romney is going to compare? well, mitt romney does not have a rock star aura the same way barack obama had four years ago. he has a narrow purpose and a broader purpose. the narrow purpose is to appeal to jewish voters. he is going to israel and meeting with prime minister netanyahu and going to poland, a symbolically important country. the larger purpose for mitt romney is to try to lend some aura, some petina of