problem isn t that the american people aren t productive enough. you ve been working harder than ever. i m afraid he doesn t understand what the word productivity means. gosh, this is quite a revelation if you have the president of the united states that doesn t understand that productivity is a measure of output per person in the nation as a whole. it is not a measure of how hard people are working. i don t know if this is a preview of what kind of debates we ll see between these two men. i believe it was chuck todd who noted some of the business language that peppered into romney s response. what do you make of how this went with the connection issue? i think it gives us a window into the different strategies the campaigns are holding. on the one hand you have president obama saying, look, mitt romney has an empathy deficit. he just doesn t get what ordinary americans are facing. and you look at our nbc wall street journal poll, democrats, president obama have a big advantage