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Conquer our state. >> everybodys in the margin of error. but your campaigns down. i am curious, would you have liked or would you like president obama to come in to wisconsin and campaign with you because he took the state by 12 or 14 points in 08? would he be helpful? >> i believe he would be. he has a huge, huge, busy agenda -- >> greta: he has -- he is doing -- he is doing some campaigning. he is campaigning for himself and would he help you? >> i love him. we are looking right now to talk to...

>> they went to the baron money, 07 and 08 contributions. i think if they asked for exhibits dealing with false statements or conspiracy after that, theyve reached a conviction on one or more of the campaign contribution counts. you can get an idea where they are going right now. no indications they have reached an agreement on anything other than the buddy money, but reached an agreement on that when its guilty or acquittal, we dont know, i think they are done with that part of it. >> one of th...

Campaign trail like 08. i tell you what -- >> theyre fantastic. >> you go into their house, you see them for three minutes, you look at those five boys, you look at ann romney, and you know what you see immediately? this guy, hes a winner. because we were just talking about kids. you look at those kids, you look at the grandkids, you look at ann, and you know when you walk into mitt romneys house, you are in the house of a good and decent man. >> and everyone knows how hard it is to raise good k...

Growth and america is likely to slow down from its 2% rate of growth. there is less demand for oil. less demand for gas. so down goes the price. the good news is, it is memorial day weekend the prices are down but the underlying reason for it is a negative, i gotcha. you think american companies remade them aeflsselves after 08. taking another hit it could come at a price in jobs. >> that is not good, not good. bill: have a good weekend. >> you too. martha: whoop at this do says stuart varney. t...

Better off than they were in november of 08. if you ask that simple question -- >> if you believe that, donny, you need to call the white house and tell them thats their message over the next months. >> for the life of me, and, again, i am not obviously a barack obama supporter. for the life of me, though, i dont understand why barack obama doesnt go out every day and go, oh, you dont like what i did? thats great. who needs detroit after all? who needs a strong gm? who needs a strong michigan? w...

Couple of weeks matter in the grand scheme of things? >> no. thats a great point. and we heard from people around the campaign that one of the strengths of the obama campaign is that because that core group has been there since the 08 campaign, since they started as underdogs, the white house, the campaign are very close, that they stick to their strategy. they dont turn into a circular firing squad. and because of that, the campaign feels very good about how things are going to unfold in large ...

Jobs numbers, which looked good in the winter, are now looking bleak again. europe is looking like it might blow up again. but, you know, as we called around talking to folks about how the campaign had started, we heard a lot of dismay from people who were involved in the 08 campaign about what the message has been like. they say barack obama is somebody whose signature was thinking big, talking big, looking big. and instead, they are worried that the campaign has been too dragged down by the ti...

Boards. where was the aig board? where are the boards of the banks that failed? >> right. >> what about that? aside from the compensation, the boards seem miserable. they are taking in money, but they have no responsibility or accountability. how do we put real accountability on the boards? >> that perspective is a good perspective and is backward looking, right? so thats what happened. we can have the debate about thats what happened in 07, 08. these boards have turned over almost completely si...

Obama. if governor romney manages that it becomes a question two traditional battle ground states ohio and florida. they voted for bush cheney in 04 then turned blue for obama. they cost ohio two electoral votes. the two states combined skill account for 40 electoral votes. if they are there for ohio and take back the states mentioned earlier they have to coach from the obama biden. voted for bush cheney before turning blue in 08. democratic consultant told bret baier he sees this as a tall or...

College votes. 78 in the electoral college if you take 39 away from obama and add them to the republicans. 2-- one second, before you get to 2. 3, indiana, i think is a slam dunk. north carolina, slam dunk. northern virginia worries me. >> that will be a bathground to the end. the democracies have a problem in vrmg virge in that the number of voters in fairfax county, the big driver of change in virginia is declining. there are 35,000 fewer active voters in fairfax county today than there were...