out that one tweet extolling barrett s virtues and yet mr. obama still needs mitt romney according to yesterday s exhibit polling 51 to 44%. would it have hurt him that much to get involved? well, i think it was the prudent move on the obama campaign. i mean, look there were no undecided voters in west r-frplt everybody was lined up, the battle lines were drawn. there wasn t a whole loft people he could sway. i m sure they saw not only the public polls, our real quick politics average was 6.7%, the final result was 6.9%. they had a sense it wasn t as close as many people were making it out to be. if it was a real close race an might have been able to move a couple of people on the margins it might have been worth it. he doesn t have a very good track record of that. they made the prudent decision to stay away. they ll go back to wisconsin and try to reenergize his base for november.
debt ceiling. well, of course, you know the president determines which checks go out and which checks don t go out if we run into a problem like that, and it was a very strange but very successful tactic, and it terrified republicans, it terrified seniors and they quickly raised the debt ceiling. quietly last week his lawyers petitioned the supreme court and said that after having sort of tried everything else said that if the supreme court overturns obamacare it s going to put all these burdens on making payments to medicare. it s just kind of a shocking tendency to keep going back and making these kind of threats that i don t know if they are valid or not, but it s kind of an alarming thing to always go back to that whenever you get yourself into a political bind. jon: something we ll keep an eye on as the election approaches. charlie hurt from the washington times. thank you. jenna: now to to west r-frplt
friendly for mitt romney. if you look at the places where there are huge batches of republican voters in the milwaukee suburbs and going north that is friendly territory for mitt romney. -p rick santoru romney. rick santorum could do up north in west r-frplt he s made a pitch that he s the conservative alternative to romney. i think it will be close but romney goes in with an advantage. jon: last time around up against herman cain in 2008 mitt romney was considered the more conservative of the two. this time around he s got the backing of some of these tea party heavy waits like marco rubio, jim demint, paul ryan, and yet rick santorum is trying to cast himself as the more conservative? it s very interesting. one of the things i ll be most interested in seeing tomorrow as the votes come in and we look at exit polls is how mitt romney has done among voters who identify themselves as strong