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how crucial is the win in virginia? i think virginia is important for the president. i don t think it s this the must-win category liking ohio or pennsylvania. but it s definitely important. i think there are 13 electoral votes there. the latest real politics average show barack obama with a three-point edge over mitt romney. it s very competitive. romney has taken campaign trips to virginia but not as froektly as barack obama. perhaps because that s also because the white house is just a few short miles from virginia. but it highlights what an important state it is for the president. let s switch gears, david. i want to talk about mitt romney is fighting back about his time at bain capital. here s what mitt romney told nbc s peter alexander. the president s campaign has been i think outrageous in making the kind of charges they have. i think the kinds of attacks are beneath the dignity of the presidency. i think the president needs to rein in his campaign and start talking abo ....
I said i d keep your taxes down, and i ve lowered taxes for middle class families $3,600 on average. if somebody tells you i ve raised your taxes, tell them, that ain t right. that s just not true. but the main promise i made to you, i said i wasn t a perfect man and you can ask michelle about that. and i told you i wouldn t be a perfect president. but i told you that i d always tell you what i thought, i d always tell you where wii stood. sometimes it wasn t popular, but i d tell you what i thought, what i believed. and i d also wake up every single day fighting as hard as i knew how for you, to make your lives a little bit better. and you know what? i ve kept that promise. i ve kept that promise. ....
I mean, it s a theory. it fits easily on a bumper sticker. but here s the problem. we tried it. we tried it for a decade before i took office. it did not work. we tried it, and we turned a surplus into a deficit. we tried it, and we had the most sluggish job growth in decades. we tried it, and your income and wages on average went down went down even while the cost of health care and education and gas were all going up. and then it culminated in the worst financial crisis that we re still cleaning up after. so it s not as if we haven t tried their theory. it would be one thing if we hadn t tried it. then they could say, well, let s try this, and maybe everybody would say, all right, that s worth trying. but we did this. ....
Deficit, at the same time we re raising revenue, cut spending, but invest in the things that will create jobs in the short run. speaking of jobs, michael, in virginia the major swing state, unemployment only 5%, well below the nation s average. how worried is the romney s campaign about this relatively strong economy in this and other battleground states? i 30 s a genuine concern there. as you recall, the campaign encouraged governor mcdonnell not to tout the success of virginia too much because if gives a chance for obama you have to feel sorry for him, though. he s the governor of virginia saying, wait a minute, i ve done a good job. that s the key thing, alex. the reality is lot of this is done at the hands of the governors of the state, not the federal government. the governor s policies are the ....