guidelines. that will start in their june issues. it will be very interesting, jon, to see if any of the other big fashion magazines go ahead and do the same thing. jon: let s hope they do. thanks, rick. harris: we are awaiting a speech from presidential candidate mitt romney. he is expected soon at a rally in pits bourg. as we told you earlier he is also meeting today with former rival rick santorum. here to look at romney s strategy and the road ahead. hadley heath. senior policy analyst at women s form rum and julie roginsky, former political advisor to new jersey senator frank lautenberg. good morning. harris: 5% of the electorate in the state of ohio where we ve seen this president spend a lot of his time, according to mitt romney is exit polling is working class. a big focus this morning has
with the real housing number, the real reality with the housing, is that usually that number is a sign. but you see movement around it that makes you feel the number makes sense. and that s the question. you know, if unemployment goes down, is there movement around it? president obama officially kicks off his 2012 re-election campaign tomorrow in virginia. likely key battleground state in the general election. according to a new washington post poll of virginia registered voters, the president leads mitt romney by seven points. among women in virginia, the president leads romney by 18 points. 56% to 58%. 56% to 38%. exit polling shows mccain beat obama by 17 points in virginia. romney has been several days campaigning in the state, including an event yesterday with virginia governor bob mcdonald and former candidate michele bachmann. congresswoman bachmann endorsed romney, framing the election as
race on the garden state parkway in new jersey. the police were allegedly leading. up first, ready to kick the reelection campaign into high gear. the president and first lady will hold the first rallies next week. in virginia and ohio. if the president s two-day, three-state college swing this week is any indication, the administration is trying to stirrup a youth movement. it s using the federal student loanish issue to o do it. congress needs to act right now to prevent interest rates on federal student interest loans from shaking you down. i want all of you to be rich. i want all of you to be successful. dan lothian is live in washington, d.c. in 2008, he had the youth in record numbers. other than that the federal student loan program, anything else he s working on? well, what you see from the p, he s talking about what his administration has done over the last three-plus years to help young people and you hear him talk about pell grants, about streamlining the p
rallied to him after all the skepticism we were supposed to get, they just went boom, there it is. tony, if you could touch on sam s point and also in politico today, they re saying the romney campaign has a power play point presentations, acronym tmt as in that mormon thing and how much he needs to talk about his faith going forward. i think he needs to talk about the issues. richard s point i think you can t start building the walls till you ve built the foundation. all the exit polling in the recent contests showed the support among conservatives in the party for mitt romney, even if he were the nominee was very shaky. he still has to solidify that base so he can build out and to skip that step would be a huge mista mistake, especially when you think history is not necessarily on the side of the republicans in this election. go back 125 years, only one democrat has been unseated in 125 years. that was jimmy carter by a conservative ronald reagan who reacheded out to reagan
politics, far refresh shack clear from politics.org and dan balz, washington bureau chief correspondent. let me start with you, dan. in hearing republicans are talking about the tax argument, i get the sense that they are concern that the democrats have figured out a way to sell tax increases the first time maybe since we have been covering political campaigns. i think it is a closer debate than we have been used to in the past. the tax cutting has been an article of faith for the republicans, in part because it has been successful politics. right r you can argue whether it has been successful economics that is a good debate to have and what this campaign will be about. but i think president obama and the democrats have found a way to talk about this that has put the republicans more on don t forget, in 2008, dan will remember, that we had a version of this debate with john mccain and president obama, with obama taking basically the same stance he has now regarding the bush tax