obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama s campaign ads have been negative. 3 in 4. to be sure, both campaigns are playing hard ball
he talked with cnn s national political correspondent jim acosta this evening. governor, thanks for joining us. let s talk first about this controversy over when you left bain capital. i ll put one of the documents in question up on screen. their sec filing stating that you were ceo at bain capital past 1999. when you say you left bain to run the olympics. why was your name still on these documents? and why didn t you clear this up sooner? well, i was the owner of an entity that is filing that information. but i had no role whatsoever in the management of bain capital after february of 1999. not that that would have been a problem to have said i was with the firm beyond that but i simply wasn t. i left to go out and run the olympics. i did that full-time. relinquished all management authority and role in bain capital after february 1999. how do you explain that discrepancy? you said publicly you left the firm in 1999. weren t you concerned at some point these filings mi