How many people are able to get off welfare and get a good paying job. i m mitt romney. and i approve of this message. to the point, how do you unring that bell? well, he shouldn t try to unring it because i think he should defend what he said and move on because if we are headed down the same path that 47% which i think is 53%, i think he s a little behind the curve, i think we re going to have more people what you want is an economy that doesn t have a record number of people out of the workforce. you don t want one in five american males to get up in the morning without a job to go to. i think a dueling debate about the jobs the president has had four years to put a plan forward. 8% plus unemployment, now for 40 plus morntsz. i think the romney campaign, if they stay on the economic message in the debates and in their ads and in their campaign rallies will be in a fine position by election day. the president has got to defend p record. romney better have a bet youer view.
Funding amount alley about. they are not just selling an image of the candidate. they are also about getting the base totally bought into the campaign, to the cad i so they can to the candidacy. and christy can do it. about it are it s the red meat in politics. but what about ann romney s appeal to folks who don t know about her husband as yet. it s an introduction to what romney has to do himself. a spouse will be appealing for lots of reasons can open the door for the audience to get to know romney better. but romney has to let people in the door. he has to show people what he really is and only he can do that in the acceptance address. bill: thanks for bringing your crystal ball down here. what s next? martha: coming up just hours now until tropical storm isaac is
$78.6 million. that s almost $17 million more in may than president obama and the d.n.c. s $60 million. back to you in new york. all right, peter, thank you very much. according to this brand new fox news poll, they re tied at 43. they they asked people about which of the two candidates for president do you think is doing a better job, about stuff, we ve got some full screens we ll show you. who do you trust to do a better job regarding taxes? take a look. people trust romney better. when it comes to the economy, romney better. job creation, romney. immigration, romney. immigration is fascinating because i could see that in the republican side but not in the general, so that s interesting. and look at government spending. they trust romney by 20 points over barack obama to do a better job. what about education? that s the hot topic right now. they trust president obama. 52% to mitt romney s 34%. and here s another big one. foreign policy, they trust president obama 49% to mit
Down, he does much better on social conservative issues. on electability, winning against obama which will drive this republican process, romney still gets it but with an asterisk. does this, mark haleprin, with us from washington, does this make romney better, more prepared for the general if he can get there? it does if he does it right. it s not going to naturally make him better. he must do the things that allow him to continue to win enough delegates, but also think of independent voters. i think chuck is absolutely right about the math. if you beat him so many times he quits the race. and there are people around him that have known him a while who say, you know what? his heart s not totally in this, he wants to win, for sure, but if he lost a bunch of races and the party turned its nose up at him, he might walk away. that s the only way to keep him from being the nominee as long as it goes on. let s also talk about the
lead evaporating in florida and gone nationwide. it shows a virtual romney-gingrich dead heat, a sharp change this last week before the south carolina blowout victory. those numbers could and certainly will change. for now, the trend is so worrying to romney forces, they re doing what they rarely do, taking the challenger, not through super pacs but directly. while florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, newt gingrich cashed in. gingrich was paid over $1.6 million by the scandal ridden agency that helped create the crisis. that new ad was straight from the romney campaign, this earlier today was straight from the stump. i m calling on speaker gingrich to do two things, release all the work product associated with his work at freddie mac and return the funds he made from freddie mac. i wouldn t have normally suggested that other than he was the one that said if you made money on this failed model you ought to return that money. within hours of that, the