the uaw. i ve taken on union bosses before. i m happy to take them on again. not smart, willard. even santorum can hit you on that one. governor romney supported the bailout of wall street and decided not to support the bailout of detroit. you know, things just aren t going willard s way. he gets behind the will for an ad that is supposed to show how much he loves the american car. but it turns out that car wasn t made in america at all. it was made in canada. and in the same ad, romney talks about going to the detroit auto show. i grew up in michigan. it was exciting to be here. i remember going to the detroit auto show with my dad. it was a big deal. the problem is, the photo he shows in that ad wasn t the detroit auto show. think progress says it was actually the worlds fair in new york city. this week, romney writes an op
statement. and it s balanced and it s fair. but that hearing was not fair. terry it seems that they have a problem when they are talking or dealing with women s issues having women there. look when president george bush george w. bush signed the partial birth abortion ban in 2003. he was flanked by six men, including then speaker hastert and senator hatch and senator santorum. so it seems like they just have this problem with having women discuss or even be around some very important decision that have to do with women. they denied our witness who was a young female law student. she was there listening to the hearing. they would not allow her on the panel to speak for the young women of america. terry? that s exactly right. and nothing could be in my mind more offensive than a panel of
and this might be in the short term a good thing for mitt romney because it might get them to vote for him. the problem comes in when if you buy this notion, which is fading by the day, that he is the inevitable republican nominee and who will go up against president obama in the fall and be on the ballot in november, it plays against him just because those numbers you just read. the number of people who have a union member in their household. it may not play well on the general election stage because as the congressman mentioned, there s profit sharing in the $7.6 billion profit that gm is reporting. checks of $7,000 per hourly worker. that s a lot of money for a lot of people who have suffered and endured a lot of hardship for more than ten years. now when we look at the polling on working class whites in michigan, congressman,
santorum over romney, 36% to 23% among working class whites. so he s having a problem, willard is, connecting to white working class in this state. a state that he is going to be crucial if he loses this state. it s going to be perceived he s in real trouble. absolutely. i don t know much about republican primary politics, but i think it would be disastrous for him to lose, particularly when he talks about michigan being his home state. the reason he s losing workers is the fact that he has been on the wrong side of the issues. it s very clear. he did not stand up for the american auto industry. the auto industry is absolutely critical to us in michigan. those are good paying manufacturing jobs. and now that he has turned anti-union, he is not going to get support with an awful lot of independent voters in the state of michigan as well. unions and the uaw and other unions in our state really help to make the middle class in
thank you both for being here tonight. good to be with you, rev. let me start with you, dana. dana, i ll ask the question again. how can mitt romney run as mr. fix-it if the economy is already getting fixed? well, the problem, reverend al, is it s starting to look like a morning in america election at least from this vantage point. and the republican candidates find themselves waking up on the bathroom floor with a terrible headache because they were celebrating the prospect of running against a president presiding over a very weak economy. that seems with very little time to spare, seems to have turned the corner here. and if that if it keeps up with these numbers that we re seeing basically on a daily basis now, the entire playbook for the republicans has to be thrown out the window and they have to find a different way to run. now michael, before you respond, let s look at some fox news polling numbers. fox news now. if you look at the rust belt