them focused on the urgent task ahead of re-elected the president. is he right? do they balance each other out? well, it s sbresing to use that phrase. clearly, there s consternation on the democratic side after the debate performance. i have to say i don t expect him to perform like that at the next debate. that was an example of him being one question deep after four years of being in the white house. but look. the jobs numbers just good for the country. below 8%. but the question is, do people feel there s a real recovery on the way and with economic growth as pathetic as it s been people are assessing and you have had surveys since the numbers were released and seen the governor pull even with the president and right now it s a toss-up race. one of the things i saw like over the weekend if you re watching football, there were a lot at least here in new york, a lot of obama campaign ads. and the romney super-pacs have a
look at polling acro cros cross-count cross-country, at federal and local level, republicans across the board have taken a hit in the last two or three weeks. i think it began with todd akins comments in missouri where people say, they re too extreme on social issues, this makes me anxious, specially women and followed up with romney s comments about the 47%, people who weren t concerned about the social issues said that s making me uncomfortable on the economic issues and this resonated across the board. you have a brand in some crisis and republicans are increasingly nervous at all levels. you hear some chatter that some of the big money folks will decide to pull money from the romney super pacs and begin shoring up the house of representatives pacs and senate pacs in the hope of saving something. donors have been told for months three inflection points for this for the contest to change. one is a vip pick, which the
get magnified political import of these internal dynamics in these verindividual states. because of that, i feel like we ought to question whether or not the field is narrowed. we have this decision from the romney campaign to get out of wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania. the romney super pacs essentially followed suit in that. are they doing that potentially as a fake? is this a commitment that they have to phnow follow through on? it has big consequences. i think part of this is they wanted to make news coming out of the democratic convention. they also have this pile of money they can start spending because he s officially the republican nominee. they re trying to leave hints out there they could expand this later to wisconsin, to michigan, to pennsylvania. but the interesting thing to me is when we start talking about the swing states, the way this gets conventionally talked about in politics, we have it slightly wrong where we look at it and say we have the national polls,
pennsylvania. the romney super pacs essentially followed suit in that. are they doing that potentially as a fake? is this a commitment that they have to now follow leading up to the election? it has big consequences. i think part of this is they wanted to make news coming out of the democratic convention. they also have this pile of money they can start spending because he s officially the republican nominee. they re trying to leave hints out there they could expand this later to wisconsin, to michigan, to pennsylvania. but the interesting thing to me is when we start talking about the swing states, the way this gets conventionally talked about in politics, we have it slightly wrong where we look at it and say we have the national polls, but let s look at the swing states. when you do that, you see that obama is ahead in the swing states right now. we come to this conclusion that mitt romney has this narrow path to 270, that there s an extra challenge for mitt romney on top of the po
billionaire casino mogul is riding another super sized super-pac check to influence the elections. $10 million on top of the $30 million he s already donated to gingrich and romney super-pacs and expected to shell out up to $100 million. let me bring in the co-editor and founder of the conservative christian blog. good morning. good morning. i know you were with the other conservatives that met at the hotel in las vegas this weekend. i wasn t there but the sense which was fabulous by the way. thank you. the sense i got from reading the reports on it was that there s still a lack of genuine enthusiasm for mitt romney except as a vehicle for beating barack obama. do you think that s a fair