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Now hes saying $200 billion in additional exports from china. hes trying to create leverage with the european union on this whole auto issue that could be coming in the weeks to come. so the problem for the president is that everyones calling his bluff. even harley-davidson. they refused to back down from their plan to move some jobs overseas in order to escape some of these european tariffs. when you have all these countries simultaneously calling the presidents bluff, it makes his position loo...

Weekend and that final push, theyre become to trying to, you know, get their folks out and thats going to be the most important thing. >> one other quick note as we watch the president, the wheels, the stairs wheeling up from the atlantic city airport, one other note in ohio is the auto issue and this ferocious point/counter-point weve seen now, unusual spectacle of the heads of general motors and chrysler rebutting campaign ads. >> right. >> from the romney campaign. they can say the first ad a...

That would be quite detrimental to the romney campaign. b, they wouldnt be running those ads in the first place if they didnt feel they were coming from behind there. theres no question the auto issue is important. interviewing governor kasic on "meet the press" said i would never side with somebody who wasnt a strong auto guy and didnt believe in supporting the companies. i think they understand that its been an uphill climb in ohio. the romney campaign does. they like to think theyre a lot clo...

Thats a win-win. this is american capitalism and american success with a social contract. he raps about that. he supported obama for those reasons both personal and policy and i think its really strong because this is someone that people trust. hes credible and it says something to me thats amazing about where we are in america. that you can take a person who did struggle with drugs and other things on the streets but has built himself up and held himself out as what he says in that ad, a moltd ...

Contract. he raps about that. he supported obama for those reasons both personal and policy and i think its really strong because this is someone that people trust. hes credible and it says something to me thats amazing about where we are in america. that you can take a person who did struggle with drugs and other things on the streets but has built himself up and held himself out as what he says in that ad, a model of the american dream. i think thats great. >> mitt romney stepped in it on the ...

Hoping to make inroads on that economic argument, on energy, coal. but there still is that problem that he has on the auto issue and the economy is improving. john kasich himself, republican governor of ohio, has, of course, been talking about the lower unemployment below the national average in ohio. so the overall feel of ohio and, you know, interesting that at least in that one poll, the president has now broken to 51%, the right track/wrong track up to 42%, those numbers are good for him. i ...

Resonating and in ohio and a lot of these states. in ohio particularly the obama team has pushed the auto rescue, there are a lot of jobs in ohio that were saved by that, and they see that as one of the reasons hes doing so well. the romney team is pushing energy and they still see a vulnerability with coal, for example, but the polls are showing that the auto issue is helping obama certainly more than this energy issue seems to be helping romney. >> it feels like when we look at the number of t...

Theyre still struggling, but theres a general feeling that obama backed the auto industry, therefore, cared about their cities and the republicans dont, and that may be how he wins ohio on that auto issue. >> jennifer granholm got it right, chris. >> what? what did she say? >> i said governor granholm got it right in her speech when she talked about the fact that what barack obama did for the auto industry wasnt just michigan, it was ohio, pennsylvania, virginia, north carolina, so many other st...

Request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. ive been telling you all morning ill be in a ford mustang in a second. the reason why, the consumer reports came out with the annual auto issue. they checked brakes, safety, fuel economy, all sorts of things. dave is here with me, a good friend of mine, the senior director of automotive testing for consumer reports. you came up with a list of ten car...