The president, people can debate part of the sampling of the different polls out there, but nobody was disputing the fact that the president was ahead and mitt romney s unfavorables were rising. and while that was a problem, we are in august. if we are going to judge of who won or lost the summer, as far as up until july 31st or up until now we can say august 9th and august 10th, we could say, barack obama was winning the summer and tactically on the campaign, obviously they hope this provides a bump. we heard today from the romney campaign that they hope that the combination of the running mate pick and the convention gives them anywhere from a five to ten-point bump. well, you re exactly right. first of all, we in the media were looking at this incredible spend rate. the democratic side, the campaign itself and their supporters and their super pac supporter, were spending money
Relaunch. it was clear when i spoke with him late last week, saturday, thursday would be late last week. couple days ago. when he was clearly saying he wants his running mate pick to basically give him a help, reinforce his vision, reinforce a message. and i think that s something that the campaign felt it was lacking, that it was becoming too much a choice too much a focus on him personally and anything to take the focus away from romney, the person and make it a battle of ideas, gives romney a fighting chance. and so that s what the pick of ryan does, more so than anybody on the short list. ryan gives romney issue definition as opposed to the idea of whos going to make him more appealing to the blue collar voters, things like that. that s not to say paul ryan might be able to help on that
It sounds like he was describing ryan. he clearly that s what he wants to do with this pick. but again, it did create the bright lines. i want to go back to something else. any time we ve been in a situation where a presidential nominee or nominee to be feels as if they need the running mate pick to sort of redefine their candidacy and campaign, it s usually not it usually doesn t end well. it may help the race get closer. al gore needed something to define his campaign as not clinton and found it in joe lieberman. got it close, some would say did get him over the finish line. it is what it is. you look at what john mccain did with sarah palin and what walter mondael did with ferraro. a nominee is trying to define themselves being defined as
Mitchell, we know what democrats will try to do. but remind people what has been the political landscape over the last six weeks. it s clear, mitt romney was taking on water. the president people can debate the sampling of the different polls that are out there, but nobody was disputing the fact that the president was ahead and mitt romney s unfavorables were rising. that was a problem. we are in august. if we were going to judge who won or lost the summer as far as up till july 31, now we can stay say up until august 9th, and august 10th, we can say barack obama was winning the summer tactically in the campaign. obviously they hope this provides a bump. we heard today from the romney campaign, that they hope that a combination of the running mate pick and the convention gives them anywhere from a five-to ten point bump. you re right. first of all, we, in the media, were looking at this incredible
The air as much if not more than the president. romney is talking about a running mate pick. he stands by his comment in february that he will appoint a pro life running mate which limits the speculation of condoleezza rice who said she was mildly pro choice . another week and run in with a shark. the suffer is presumed dead. the producer of shark week coming your way next . stay in the moment sanya focus lolo, focus let s do this i am from baltimore south carolina. bloomington, california. austin, texas. we are all here to represent the country we love