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Its out of character. dont try to be a common guy. mitt romneys not a common guy. im sorry. ann romney is a terrific person, i know ann romney. but if mitt ironed his shirt the day before that interview or morning of that interview, it was the first time he ironed his shirt in awhile. dont apologize for being wealthy. say, look, ive been a success at everything ive done. at bain capital, at the olympics, as governor. i know how to fix things. thats what you should be concerned with. fixing this ...

Dont plan on raising personal issues when it comes to the president in attack ads. what is the thinking behind it? are you finding negative ads arent working. are you just that much nicer? what is behind that? >> we do a lot of research. we found that people especially tows is in the middle are turning off to the harsh negative personal attacks. when the history of this campaign is written, one the tactical mistakes that people will write about is where they romney complicity in a womans death f...

Joining us now from new york is erica payne, the founder of the agenda project. a progressive organization. okay, erica, the numbers that came out today, the unemployment figures going out, more joblessness claims 4,000 up last week. and we heard the obama campaign come out and say oh, no, things are on track. do you think people feel in the united states like things are on track? >> i dont think they feel like they are on track. i think they feel like there is a lot of work left to be done and ...

Brand-new polling proves mitt romneys medicare lies arent working. well break down the new numbers. the obama campaign says they have the answer to stop republicans from stealing ohio. state senator nina turner is here. and how did mitt romney get completely shut out among african-american supporters in every latest poll? >> im going to eliminate every nonessential program i can find. im going to work to reform and save -- >> the daily shows senior black correspondent, larry wilmore is here to...

I think the odds are far more than negligible. the rhetoric has been heating up and what we saw is the talks arent working and meanwhile iran continues to enrich, enrich. even if the israelis dont strike, no matter who we elect, barack obama or mitt romney, i would think in 2013 the most far-reaching national security decision hes going to have to make is whether or not the united states would carry out a preventative strike against iran. even though foreign policy is missing in action no matter...

Workforce. where do they go? a giant kidnapping. where are they hiding? the msnbc line-up? >> bob: a lot of them go to social security. >> greg: the other thing, youth unemployment. 18 to 19-year-olds are up to 22%. one out of five. when young people are working, its scary. that is how menuedo started. >> eric: bob, you want to play games with the numbers. here are the real numbers. >> bob: you play games with the numbers. >> eric: the economy has to create 120,000 jobs to keep up with people mo...

Workforce. where do they go? a giant kidnapping. where are they hiding? the msnbc line-up? >> bob: a lot of them go to social security. >> greg: the other thing, youth unemployment. 18 to 19-year-olds are up to 22%. one out of five. when young people are working, its scary. that is how menuedo started. >> eric: bob, you want to play games with the numbers. here are the real numbers. >> bob: you play games with the numbers. >> eric: the economy has to create 120,000 jobs to keep up with people mo...

What romney has the policy with. >> and president bush at 48 1/2%, at this exactly point. he got reelected and john kerry with numbers like that. can you see it play out that the president does. >> i think the president will be reelect adden i think its largely economic numbers, but largely the voting blocks. he is very he, very hard to defeat a president who gets an enormous percentage of the african-american vote consistently across the country, the union management and that no matter what the...

Taxpayers paid for these things and the businesses used to get successful. i paid to do that. fine. >> andrea: the ones youre citing. im talking about examples, greg, like the small business owners that doesnt take the handout, the subsidy or the booster, the one that comes to work every day and takes a risk and goes to debt and works every weekend -- nuclears not what obama cited. >> andrea: that is exactly what he said. no, hes not. >> greg: i forgot what the question was. here is the thing. t...

Others. after the summer, whats his job plan? >> unemployment. >> this lifeguard collects unemployment. >> this will be my 11th year. >> in most states, they can get unemployment benefits the rest of the year. >> if they arent working, they should be looking for a job. >> its pretty sweet. id like to be getting paid hanging out on the beach. >> the payments have consequences. new jersey had to borrow money from the feds to pay its unemployment benefits. >> new jersey, we ran out of money. the un...