joe biden was trying to make clear last night despite the back and forth we heard, that that is what is likely to happen. melissa harris-perry, great to see you. you can watch melissa harris-perry show every saturday and sunday 10:00 a.m. eastern time. you can cut tax rates by 20% and still preserve these important preferences for middle class taxpayers. not mathematically possible. adding up the numbers. congressman ryan does not get into specifics. does the math add up? i ll ask one of his house colleagues. all atwitter. a look at the vice presidential debate top tweets. i d like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don t. multigrain cheerios
of the federal government that we need from the fbi to the faa. you can t possibly do all of those things. that was my problem. how does the math add up? so to me, he s still at war with math. and i think that s where the wall street journal editorial is quite a positive. how are you going to do these things? i believe this time is different. i think the american people really do want a plan. they want one from romney. they want one from obama. and i think they will reward someone who they feel has laid down a credible plan, and please, please, don t tell me it isn t going to hurt. there s no way we get out of this hole without working. they want it to be real. they want it to be fair. the wealthy pay more. everybody pays something. and they want it to be aspirational. they want it to be not just about balancing the budget, but making this country rich. doris kearns goodwin there is this appetite for substance for a credible plan but campaigns are still, in many cases, about style
preserve all 9 the institutions of the federal government that we need from the fbi to the faa. you can t possibly do all of those things. that was my problem. how does the math add up? so to me, he s still at war with math. and i think that s where the wall street journal editorial is quite a positive. how are you going to do these things? i believe this time is different. i think the american people really do want a plan. they want one from romney. they want one from obama. and i think they will reward someone who they feel has laid down a credible plan, and please, please, don t tell me it isn t going to hurt. there s no way we get out of this hole without working. they want it to be real. they want it to be fair. the wealthy pay more. everybody pays something. and they want it to be aspirational. they want it to be not just about balancing the budget, but making this country rich. doris kearns goodwin there is this appetite for substance for a credible plan but campaigns are st
away from that record as he could. interestingly, when he started talking about the middle class, what did he not talk about? the fact that the middle class has suffered more in the last four years of president obama s administration than in the previous 12. that they don t want to talk about. tom? well, i think it s unfair to say that romney wasn t specific. he was very specific. he said he s going to balance the budget. cut taxes. raise protect medicare and preserve all 9 the institutions of the federal government that we need from the fbi to the faa. you can t possibly do all of those things. that was my problem. how does the math add up? so to me, he s still at war with math. and i think that s where the wall street journal editorial is quite a positive. how are you going to do these things? i believe this time is different. i think the american people really do want a plan. they want one from romney. they want one from obama.
this particular vote counter in this tiny county says actually occurred. so, i think it went from 2 to 22 or something, but you ve got to wonder, the iowa republican party is saying, no matter what happens, when they do official tally, they re confident things will stay the same. how does that math add up? right. a couple things are worth noting. one, you re right that the iowa republican party has said it won t comment any further. privately it seems they believe that whatever the outcome, it s not going to change the ultimate outcome of the caucus. they seem to believe mitt romney will remain the winner. a couple things worth noting about the process itself. one, there is a two-week certified fiction process that s happening right now. the results are unofficial. as i said, the caucus is staffed by volunteers, so the party itself has to certify. it doesn t offer dell garretts, it s nonbinding, doesn t have