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Shoulders. >> president obama today making the hard sell inorth carolina, six days out from the election. a polling average in north carolina right now shows a dead heat there between hillary clinton and donald trump. look at that. 46.4 to 46.4. in the polling average in that state. tonight on the other side of the country, though, hillary clinton is going to be giving a speech starting any moment in tempe, arizona of all places. tonights arizona event it should be noted it was announced by the ...

The green line is the presidents approval and the red is disapproval. you can see that hes under water here for the first time in a very long time. 46.4% approval numbers. if purchase working in the west wing. how are you feeling about those numbers and back to that. what do you do to try to turn the tide? do you try to re rev up the bas? and try to draw attention to somewhere else? >> hes trying that. there hasnt been any good news for the president. not only does bad news push his ratings down...

47%. the narrative of the last election was the 47% dependent on government, we dont have to worry about them and i got to tell you, i cant think of an idea that is more antithet cal than that idea. >> he claims the gops problem in the last election was the narrative, but cruz is recycling the same old garbage. he says the 47% dependent on government, by now, we know hes referencing the 46.4% of american households that pay no federal income tax. republicans love to paint these folks as just fre...

Primarily immigration. i think it was two words. 47%. the narrative of the last election was the 47% dependent on government, we dont have to worry about them and i got to tell you, i cant think of an idea that is more antithet cal than that idea. >> he claims the gops problem in the last election was the narrative, but cruz is recycling the same old garbage. he says the 47% dependent on government, by now, we know hes referencing the 46.4% of american households that pay no federal income tax. ...

47%. the narrative of the last election was the 47% dependent on government, we dont have to worry about them and i got to tell you, i cant think of an idea that is more antithet cal than that idea. >> he claims the gops problem in the last election was the narrative, but cruz is recycling the same old garbage. he says the 47% dependent on government, by now, we know hes referencing the 46.4% of american households that pay no federal income tax. republicans love to paint these folks as just fre...

They will vote for this president no matter what. the mean the president starts off with a huge number. these are people who pay no income taxes. my job is not to worry about nose people. ill never convince them to take personal responsibility and take care of their lives. i have to convince the 5% to 10%. >> what you say behind closed doors is really who you are. im joined by david k. johnson who is a pulitzer prizewinning author. romney was basically right about one thing. 46.4% of americans d...

>> well, what you say behind closed doors is really who you are. im joined by david k. johnson who is a columnist and author of the book "the fine print." romney was basically right about one thing. 46.4% of americans dont pay federal income taxes. but heres the real break down from the tax policy center. two-thirds of romneys 47% actually do pay payroll taxes. david, the rest are elderly who make less than $20,000 a year. >> thats right. they are either elderly so used to pay taxes or are worki...

Welcome back to "hardball." so who are that 47% of people mitt romney says hell never convince they they should, quote, take personal responsibility and care for their lives. columnist david brooks asked the same question and wonders is it the iraq war veteran who goes to the va? is it the student getting a loan to go to college? is it the retiree on social security or medicare? and these charts from the tax policy center show who that 47% is. these are the people that dont pay federal income ta...

Conservatives. people like bill crystal, many even moderate republican leaning columnists if you will, conservative center right columnists like david brooks and then you have the thing that he has to fear the most, linda mcmahon is the first one ive seen, a republican senate campaign in connecticut how many republicans start trying to distance themselves from this remark. >> bill crystal calling it i believe arrogant and stupid. >> yeah. >> as well. this initially started with eric ericsson bac...

Fund-raising people who are parting with their moneys are very interested in knowing, can you win or not. thats what this is -- this was address. >> he did stand by his remarks, repeating these facts. >> as i point out, i recognize among those that pay no tax, approximately 47% of americans, im not likely to be highly successful with the message of lowering taxes, likeless wise, those reliant on government are not attracted to my message of slimming down the size of government. >> where does the...