. changed the health care system as we know it. the problem in our country change is determined and measured by one metric. are you doing better today than four years ago and am i doing better today than four years ago today and every american is asking that question. the president has to construct a narrative yes, can we do better? you better believe it and four more years i will make it better. i genuinely believe this election will be as monumental presidential race as any we have seen. i think the visions of the two candidates be it mitt romney or newt gingrich or someone else. gingrich the way he envisions the country being the next 20 years is very different than president obama and mitt romney i would argue is as well. the argument over the role and shape and size and contours of government involved in our everyday lives there has not been a bigger presidential race at least the way it s shaping up in late january than we have seen in our lifetimes.
instrument. you re going to have to pay 30% regardless of how your tax bill comes out, but it doesn t clear up the under brush of deductions, credits and everything else and tax experts say that s very important in terms of just making a cleaner, better tax code. it s something barack obama has called for in the past, simplifying the tax code. this means you re going to have to come back and go through this again. it s complicated. it is. the attacks on mitt romney are really taking a toll on his standing in the polls, but there s one poll in particular that could point to big trouble for him. and a focus on the white house most influential lady since 1900. we ll share.
i i sure you. i m sure, but that s kind of different. i m just observing. we ll get to the meat of what we re talking about. alex, what is the sense on the ouce or is it hard to tell? i think that romney has really benefitted over the last week from an enormous paid media offensive on the air waves here. you see advertising on all sides of this race, but the romney ads are just overwhelming the gingrich ads at this point. newt needed those two debates as an opportunity to level out the playing field and i think the general consensus among republicans here, he didn t have the kind of electrifying moment he did in south carolina. he s still drawing crowds, putting in strong performances, but there isn t that sense of a run away train as in south carolina. you write that romney s surrogate john mccain says stop the debates because he s tired of the mud wrestling. if romney becomes the nominee,
the polls earlier just prior to the debate that the gingrich surge had kind of halted somewhat and i think that is largely due to the campaign tactics of the romney campaign. it has been a kitchen sink strategy for them. they have been unloading on newt gingrich even more aggressively than they did in iowa in december when gingrich first emerged as a threat to romney sending surrogates now to every one of gingrich s events to immediately talk to the press when the former house speaker is done addressing their crowd. somebody is there from the romney campaign to talk to the press and try to bracket him. i think the romney team has really worked aggressively in florida to rattle speaker gingrich and then i think that actually came to fruition in the thursday night debate which was clearly a very good night for mitt romney. i think he has been able to build on what is a successful week for him. in addition to throwing everything but the kitchen sink there, they are throwing in money, be
here s the key. i would stay a republican, but would select an independent or conservative democrat to run with me. it would be a unity ticket. it would not be a third party. we re not trying to establish another party. i m a republican. i m a proud republican. but i m a prouder american. and i m telling you, alex, we have debt we can t repay, we have a tax code you can t read that s unfair. we re not creating jobs. you saw the report yesterday. the economy was up 2.8%, but was down this year worst than last year. we are in trouble and no one running for president has the guts to stand clear of the special interest money and by the way, i d love to be on a debate. i know mitt romney s making fun of them because he s been on 18. i ve been on none. i m the only guy running who s been a congressman and a governor. i m the only guy running who dropped the unemployment rate in