right? that s right. the white house insists this is not what the president is trying to do. he s trying to tinker with the welfare reform law that president clinton signd into law and that he s doing it at the behest of some republican governors who wanted those changes and that the ad suggests that he dismantling welfare reform and they say that s not true and the claim by the romney camp got four pinocchios from the washington post. what i think the romney camp is trying to say, saying that ad never suggested that anyone caused cancer in a woman, that this went past the line and he believes it s hurting the president. take a listen to this man. obama is he had he was going to change the tone in washington and he has done that. he s taken it from bad to worse. that is going to be the question here in a lot of national polls. you see the president having a lot more likeability than governor romney. it will be an interesting question in the days ahead whether some of these negati
how does the man in charge get re-elected when so many are so pessimistic? no president ever has. but then, look at mitt romney. in the latest abc news/ washington post poll, a mere 40% of americans see him favorably. about half just don t seem to like him. no challenger has had such low favorability since abc news began polling in 1984. lower even than walter mondale and he went on to lose 49 states. but there is one man who suddenly find himself popular with both sides. i want to thank bill clinton. president clinton. president clinton. president bill clinton. reporter: that s right. even mitt romney is looking for a little clinton magic. just look who stars in his latest ad. america s basic bargain of providing opportunity and demanding in return responsibility. reporter: the ad makes the questionable claim that president obama is undermining the welfare reform law signed by bill clinton.
we begin this hour with a very important change in the presidential race. according to our brand new cnn/orc poll, a majority of the nation s voters now say they want to re-elect president obama. take a look at this. the president has 52%. he s seven points ahead of mitt romney who s at 45%. just a month ago the president in our poll was ahead 49% to 46%. significantly the president now according to our latest poll is above 50%. our polls also show what voters think of mitt romney s potential vice presidential picks. let s bring in our national political correspondent jim acosta. he s taking a closer look at all of these numbers. that s right. at least on the surface, should bring a smile to the obama campaign. and perhaps a warning to mitt romney and his campaign to go big in the vice presidential search with mitt romney heading out on a potential rollout of his running mate. the results on the veepstakes are even more fascinating. the two men that seem to be the safe
would only approve waivers that led to more people going to work but conservative lawmakers are extremely skeptical in part because they see the president and h.h.s. trying to grab powers resevened for congress. there is a disturbing pattern of who things that occurred. increased dependency on the federal government and increase in power of the president of the central government. recent dispute over the advertising food stamps increased skepticism over dependency. jay carney says it was a response to request from governors! last year, state esled by democrat and republican including nevada and utah called for the waiver. utah s request for a waiver was limited to flexibility on the reporting requirement not the work mandate itself and letter from governor herbert questioned whether h.h.s. could act on its own. saying, utah understood that h.h.s. did not have waiver authority. the reauthorization of the welfare reform law is two
mitt romney is so desperate to change the topic from his tax returns that he s ripped a page out of the old republican playbook. today he repeated his bogus claim that president obama s trying to weaken the work requirements of the welfare reform law by granting waivers. he removed the requirement of work from welfare. it is wrong to make any change that would make america more of a nation of government dependency. we must restore it and i will restore work into welfare. yeah, yeah. you know this president, he s against work. but former president bill clinton who signed the welfare reform law in 96 says romney s claims are quote, not true. and the attacks are disappointing and misleading. but the romney campaign is not