18,000 ads in those swing states and they flooded the zone with anti-romney ads, specifically attacking mitt s tax plan and i think that sort of thing at that moment truly could have some effect on the polls. if you look at gallup s results, they showed that the mitt romney s convention speech was the least well received in modern history. 38% liked it, versus 52, if i recall correctly, for john mccain s speech four years earlier which was not exactly a barn burner. i certainly agree with kim that in the absence of romney, counter acting both that barrage of ads, clinton attack and everything else, with anything more substantive than he gave, it s not surprising that he s fallingen off. and this is the thing, kim. the romney speech was fundamentally biographical. it was an attempt to repair his image particularly with independents and women who say i m a nice guy. i m really, you know, i do a lot of charity, i like women,
18,000 ads in those swing states and they flooded the zone with anti-romney ads, specifically attacking mitt s tax plan and i think that sort of thing at that moment truly could have some effect on the polls. if you look at gallup s results, they showed that the mitt romney s convention speech was the least well received in modern history. 38% liked it, versus 52, if i recall correctly, for john mccain s speech four years earlier which was not exactly a barn burner. i certainly agree with kim that in the absence of romney, counter acting both that barrage of ads, clinton attack and everything else, with anything more substantive than he gave, it s not surprising that he s fallingen off. and this is the thing, kim. the romney speech was fundamentally biographical. it was an attempt to repair his image particularly with independents and women who say i m a nice guy. i m really, you know, i do a lot of charity, i like women,
18,000 ads in those swing states and they flooded the zone with anti-romney ads, specifically attacking mitt s tax plan and i think that sort of thing at that moment truly could have some effect on the polls. if you look at gallup s results, they showed that the mitt romney s convention speech was the least well received in modern history. 38% liked it, versus 52, if i recall correctly, for john mccain s speech four years earlier which was not exactly a barn burner. i certainly agree with kim that in the absence of romney, counter acting both that barrage of ads, clinton attack and everything else, with anything more substantive than he gave, it s not surprising that he s fallingen off. and this is the thing, kim. the romney speech was fundamentally biographical. it was an attempt to repair his image particularly with independents and women who say i m a nice guy. i m really, you know, i do a lot of charity, i like women,
have santorum attacking mitt. he s going to get it from three or four sides now for the first time. there are a lot of people that said and we re going to ask him when he comes, what would ve happened to mitt romney if he actually had been attacked? he wasn t attacked, he got the same number he got four years ago. do we not know yet whether he has a glass jaw? we don t. there s that question. if you talk to establishment republicans, that s the question lurking in their minds. two big questions, one, can he breakthrough the low 20s ceiling he s had nationally? and the second is, if he gets hit once or twice hard on the jaw, is the whole thing going to crumble? and we ve not tested. it s an untested proposition at this point. we re about to test it. this weekend, two debates, ten hours one of them msnbc meet the press, facebook. and the other one s abc? right. can we buy stock in abc.
for a month. he set up shop in new hampshire. what does he have to do next week? what s the threshold for him to be viable? he needs to show that he can be someone who can appeal to republicans. he has ran as a moderate for a long time, then ran as a conservative. he hasn t made good use of his time. nobody knows what the huntsman brand is. there s no sign of him breaking through there. and it s going to be hard for him now because everybody s going to be focused on santorum. huntsman s not going to be the story. there s only one way for him to have a path forward, and that s romney s going to have to lose new hampshire. and some real blow dealt to romney that causes people, establishment republicans to say, man, mitt romney is a let me ask you this, john. let s say we have newt going after mitt really hard. it s going to hit him hard. you re going to have huntsman attacking mitt, you re going to