kind of thing we have heard in political races dating back to you know, well before the 2012 cycle. the romney campaign is hoping that they can defend their candidate in the same way they defended him from the initial bain ads saying this is an attack on a legitimate business practice and a misleading ad. i think it is going to be interesting to see how long the romney campaign sticks with that line of argument. is trchlgt i think it is instructive to go back to this ad that kind of touched off this latest round and it featured a worker who was at a company that got shutdown answered talked about actually building the stage where the company came out and said, oh, hello workers, we re closing. let me just play a little clip of that. mitt romney made over $100 million by shutting down our plant and devastated our lives. turns out that when we built that stage, it was like building my own coffin. there is a new poll out that