fundamental planks of his candidacy and that includes his time at bain. there has been no sort of unified response, no sort of offensive message, just kind of a wan game of defense on that. his time, his personal wealth, and i think to some degree his religion although that hasn t really come up as much. certainly bain, that seems to be a soft spot for him. it s a soft spot because it s not really just been about bain. it s about the central premise for his candidacy that he knows how to create jobs. so they have correctly identified the people prioritize the economy and jobs, but his central claim is i worked in the private sector, therefore i know about job creation. that has never really been fully established. he tip-toed around it. in fact, in his announcement video, he couldn t quite get there and he s edged into this territory and it hasn t worked, hasn t worked because he hasn t been able to make the case and it also hasn t worked because the other side has destroyed that cas
he continues to spend millions of dollars, perpetuating falsehoods. mitt romney has a plan to get america working. barack obama, worst job record since the depression. so shame on you, barack obama. i m mitt romney and i approved this message. that was a new tv ad from the romney campaign calling president obama s attacks on his bain record untrue. but this weekend, the new york times reported the bain attacks are working. quote, propelled by a torrent of blistering television advertisements, president obama is successfully invoking mitt romney s career at bain capital. polls are illustrating the impact of the attacks as well. in the latest nbc news/ wall street journal poll, 33% of respondents in swing states said learning more about romney s business record gave them a more negative view of him. we were talking about this earlier in the show. how romney has managed the bain thing. there was a moment during what i ll call surrogate-gate when