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Completely deadlocked. there is no reason that obama should be within 10 points of any opponent given the state of the economy. given his record over the four years. the only thing thats keeping him neck in neck with romney is the fact all these personal attacks on romney, the hundreds of millions that they have spent have had an effect and there is 22 point gap in sort of the empathy gap who cares about you most? here is the problem for obama. he cant change the conditions. he cant change the e...

Ads. he. >> he has an empathy gap. thats the best way to describe it, caring about average people. people say if obama is losing in the economy, how is he up in these battleground states? i always point to hes winning a values economic argument. >> democrats always do well in the who cares about people like you but we got to close the gap. my argument is how to close it show people like you a benefit to having as a president economically. how you going to get a job. i look at it as two coaches. ...

Suggested earlier. thats not the problem. weve had rich candidates. franklin roosevelt, the kennedys, theodore roosevelt. people thought they were not in there fighting for their own class. roosevelt was called a traitor to his class. romney over and over and over again and not just in this event gives the sense that he doesnt care about those hard working americans. he doesnt understand them. he doesnt have any concern for their lives. theres an empathy gap. thats got to correlate with voting i...

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Four months. baseline data. my one prediction for the campaign is that partners of bain rename their firm after november. >> all right, fred. go to the other big thing we tested. we did a deep dive on the two parties. how are they in tune to various segments of the country? and we asked on a various level of questions, when it came to the democratic party, seen as more intuitive in working with women. all of 9 scores, republicans not on many. we want to focus on, whos looking ot for you and your...

Motivate their base of support at a time when the president needs all the sort of financial support and organizing support he can get. most people do think its going to come down to the economy and where that goes over the next six months is whats going to matter. but for the obama campaign, it is very -- certainly a focus of theirs to sort of get out these people, get the base of support going and try to match that sort of groundswell they had four years ago. >> joe, your thoughts on that. >> i...

Romney to handle the economy. but when you ask them, which candidate do you like more, they are siding heavily with barack obama over mitt romney. and thats sort of an empathy gap i think you saw reflected at that picnic table and gets to the point youre making. which mitt romney has yet to figure out how to be relatable to people. but the youre not addressing the the fundamental concerns, thats more problematic. >> i think maybe the romney campaign maybe learned something from this, if youre go...

Specifically, want to know what a candidate is for. not just what hes against. and mitt romney has to outline exactly what platforms hes for. >> i will make the case that mitt romney doesnt understand their world. he hasnt lived in their world. he doesnt know their world, and he doesnt have any solution whatsoever. you put president obama in that position, he has got an answer for those folks. he, at least, gives them a game plan on what he is going to do to try to make it better, to alleviate t...

>> i guess id parse it out this way which is to say that obama has a winning personality and he needs a message and romney has a winning message and he needs a personality. and i guess its game on with santorum getting out yesterday as to the beginning of that tug of war on who wins. theres clearly an empathy gap. i mean, obama seems to win on that front understanding or at least being perceived to understand more ones hopes and dreams and romney has the message but its a tug of war and its goin...

Involved in real estate, who doesnt simply doesnt get that for most of us, our houses if we own a house, its the only asset we own. and we invest our hopes and dreams in it. when people lose their homes, many of them are losing everything. and thats whats happened in this housing crisis. youve seen people slide back into poverty. youve seen african-americans and latino families lose most of their net worth after fighting so hard to gain it. so every time he opens his mouth on a topic like this, ...