they brought us whole binders full of women. when governor romney s campaign was asked about the lilly ledbetter bill whether he supported it, he said i ll get back to you. let s bring in kiki mcclain and chip saltsman. good morning. kiki, let me start with you. is too much being made of this whole binders full of women thing? binders full of women is just a symbol, a place to talk about what was and wasn t in the debate last night. they want to see a more trusting relationship with romney that they don t feel like they have right now. i do some work on the project and had the privilege of watching dial groups. and in some ways they weren t feeling the real details that they wanted from either candidate. but they certainly feel a more
another discussion about the bush legacy there. i felt like i m happy that foreign policy has taken such a prominent role in this debate cycle but i do feel like there are a host of domestic be issues that deserve more sun light and one of them are issues pertaining to women. casey, i, you know, the binders full of women thing is the phrase heard around the world this morning but i actually thought the more telling sort of episode vis-a-vis women and mitt romney is when mitt romney started talking about his chief of staff and women and the work place. let s hear a little bit about what the president said as far as economic issues and fair pay and women s issues and then what mitt romney said as far as concerns about women s fiscal equality or pay equity. the first bill i signed was something called the lilly ledbetter bill because women are increasingly the bread winners in the family. this is not just a women s issue, this is a family ish.
the binders of women thing will have legs because of everything else that romney said. the women need to get home in time to cook dinner. those women who work. what world is he in? and the way he directed at candy crowley. it was disrespectful. also the reason he had to be more aggressive tonight was candy crowley was not jim lehrer. she was not a potted plant. that forced romney to have to move out more and he overdid it. do you realize, joy, the guts it took for candy knowing he had said act of terror. knowing it was on her mind. it had been in her notebook. if she had been wrong on that, the hell she would have taken from all these media watchers from the right. unbelievable. and she is anyway. what s their case now? she was right. in the spin room afterwards, a lot of the complaining was about her. why? she wasn t wrong.
moment in the debate. but obviously a lot of discussion about it on the internet. but i do think that that s not going to be the moment that s replayed a great deal over the next 24 to 48 hours. i think that s going to be the libya moment and the 47% moment. one of the things i find inexplicable about the debate, you come to the end of the debate. you know the president s going to get the last word. you ve just gotten through the second debate without a single mention of the 47% comment which devastated your candidacy and your campaign over the month of september and you proactively bring it up putting your chin out over the plate for the president to wallop you on. right out there on the ledge. he did it at the end thus allowing the president to have the last word on it. that was just a bad piece of debate tactic there. i think it s like taking it to the wrong goal line. your own goal in soccer. the binders of women thing
points. martha: we know the battleground states. what is interesting is that the gaps are getting much more narrow and not maybe to a certain extent what we expect to see. people are starting to pay attention. not only that, but the women thing is very important. this has been in the back for barack obama. i think this is backfiring against the democrats enact what you think republicans have been begging todd akin to get out of the race? the war on women is coming from people like him and they don t want any part of that message from a candidate who could sway the senate. martha: i want to show one more poll. has the country change for the better or the worse? here is a look at that. 46% say it has changed for the worse. 29% say it has changed for the better. 24% say no difference, and this is a right track and on track