every candidate has their weaknesses, and jeb bush looking back at romney has said he didn t deal with his weaknesses very well, so jeb bush is going to be very aggressive, and there s going to be no shortage of candidates who come after him because jeb bush is a top tier candidate. heather: jeb bush has already said he makes no apologies when it comes to his business interests and that he, in fact, creates jobs and he shouldn t apologize for that. yeah. and the republican candidates and there are going to be no shortage of republican candidates this time around a it s going to be a big stage they re going to go after, i think, any business dealings like tenet a health care company that benefited from obamacare. so jeb bush is certainly going to have to be ready for that line of attack. heather: how does he counter that line of attack? he, you know i m sure
Host at a utah mountain resort. i think it s park city. he s considering writing a book and a series of opinion pieces. and he has plans to campaign for republican candidates in 2014. what sounds as if romney wants back into politics in some way, but does the party and its future candidates want romney as part of their path to victory? john braybender is a republican skutant who ran rick santorum s presidential campaign last year and david corn is a washington bureau chief for mother jones. we haven t had candidates running. it s getting harder and harder in a tv aej, it s hard to come back and say give me another shot. john, is there any chance that romney is peek-a-booing his way back to a run? the only thing i could see him running for is u.s. senate in michigan. but let s remember, romney has
Ceiling. and i d say 48.5% is the floor. and i think romney has, i d say, the floor is about the same. 48.5% to 49, but i d say his ceiling is a little bit higher. mark, i know you re hearing the same thing. one of the things the romney people feel about the point about turnout, they have been able to grow since this debate, the pro-romney sentiment as opposed to just an anti-president obama sentiment and that that s going to propel them. i talked to other republicans who are more familiar with the get-out-the-vote operation, that they sense a great deal of enthusiasm. going back to chuck s point, remember high 2004 and how many more democrats came out that year because of a terrific turnout operation in ohio, and it simply wasn t enough because the president, you know, president bush relying on senator rob portman wasn t senator at the time was still turning out his, you know, his base of conservatives in the southern part of the state. so i think what does the vote actually look li
Campaign? well, i think that the whatever momentum romney had from the first debate stopped. and my reading of the polls is the last week had already been going at least slightly in obama s direction. and at least on the first couple of days, from the reaction to what the president did, from the difficulties romney has, this appears to be helping obama some more. and as long as polling stations can open up in places like philadelphia and in northern virginia, then the storm, i think, because he responded well, will end up helping obama more than it hurts him. e.j. dionne, always good to have you with us on the ed show. thanks so much. the romney camp says they ll win next tuesday. the latest poll numbers, folks, they tell just a different story. bob shrum weighs in next. later, it s been three weeks, count em, three weeks since mitt romney the candidate actually took a question from reporters?
A positive role in our lives. one of the reasons katrina was such a big scandal is for years, particularly under clinton, who really did a good job of reforming fema. we said, yeah, this is one of the things the federal government does well. and when states get into trouble like this, yes, they can do things for themselves and they do a lot of stuff for themselves. but they ve got to have the fed. i think right now, he has no choice but to say, well, whatever i said before, i m going to keep fema. e.j. dionne, are we going to be lacking on this campaign, if romney loses, saying, it was the 47% tsunami. that it really was that that set the table for a lot of other problems that he just couldn t overcome throughout this campaign? well, i think that the whatever momentum romney had from the first debate stopped. and my reading of the polls is the last week had already been going at least slightly in obama s direction. and at least on the first couple of days, from the reaction to wh