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Seriously, and im gotten for the other guy. >> you have to believe that before they put $6 million into this, they did the focus groups. they showed this to people and polled them before and after, and they got the sense of this sort of cheap shot might work with this kind of voter in a certain kind of place. >> a person that is turned off to what looks like too cool. >> to me, there is a case of flas this, its hard to know what is in someones heart when theirç making that or what the trying t...

Into this, they did the focus groups. they polled them before and after and they got the sense this sort of cheap shot might work with a certain type of voter in a certain place. >> you know what kind of voter. perhaps a white voter, not necessarily, but turned off to what looks like too cool.ç >> they have the barry white, oh, yeah, over and over again. its hard to know what is in someones heart when its turned around on. >> a candidate is good at targeting an owe popponenopponeh and riding o...

Economic issues. on issues how big government should be. should we continue to vastly expand the size and scope of government. reasonable people can take either side of that argument and mitt romney was making his stab at, arguing that we should not increase the size of government. we need to hold it back if were going to have economic growth. rick: the laser beam focus on the economy, no mention of health care. nothing about the abortion. nothing about contraception. nothing about same-sex marr...

You are the expert. how good is my instinct on this? >> the idea behind it, the idea that the president doesnt take responsent for the things that he has control over, that he hasnt fixed, is perhaps the most powerful idea in the entire campaign cycle. im not convinced as you are that that execution will be as effective as you suggest it is. and here is why. its a little complicated. they show the same, "im not going to make excuses" over and over again that doesnt make the case as well as showi...

How good is my instinct on this? >> the idea behind it, the idea that the president doesnt take responsent for the things that he has control over, that he hasnt fixed, is perhaps the most powerful idea in the entire campaign cycle. im not convinced as you are that that execution will be as effective as you suggest it is. and here is why. its a little complicated. they show the same, "im not going to make excuses" over and over again that doesnt make the case as well as showing it once at the be...

Focus groups that nbc news did. 12 republicans and gop-leaning independents in tampa just last night where it was clear that many of them had reservations about mitt romney. and the thing that they mentioned most often was flip-flopping and inconsistency. despite saying that they were probably going to vote for him in november. do you think that the support for the presumptive nominee is soft in that way? and what does he need to do to get republicans to more enthusiastically rally around him? >...

Santorum so far. and theyre not calling for him to get out of the race just yet. they say its full speed ahead on tuesday. >> erin, what about this new ad that mitt romneys campaign rolled out focused squarely on the president? lets take a look at this. >> america deserves solutions, not attack ads covering up obamas failures. four years of failed leadership are all we can afford. >> what do you think mitt romneys strategy is going to be against president obama if he is the gop nominee? >> the l...

All of the disenfranchised voters, if you will, feel or at least felt burned by passion, meaning they voted for passion, voted for rhetoric, voted for this image of something and now theyve decided maybe i dont need that. maybe i need brass tacks and thats romney if hes going to win that independent mind thats frustrated on the obama side thats where he scores points. >> i would agree with you in the position that where the president was a month or two months ago but i think that, as youve seen ...

Him he shares the policies the republican party has, they think jobs, they parrot the language of focus groups and polls. everybody says they care about jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, the policies are a repeat of the bush years. less regulation on big business, lower taxes, we saw romney promise 20% tax cuts across the board. what did that give us in the bush years? less jobs over eight years than jimmy carter created in four. it was the worst jobs record of any president in modern times, and thats the...

The culture of the folks there, they dont like bus stops, they like it when you sit down and talk about the issues with them and there is a lot to talk about when it comes to middle class income earn aers in this countr in ohio. how does romney and santorum win over those people? >> they have to change their policies. no question, santorum can tell a good personal story about his family, where it breaks down for him he shares the policies the republican party has, they think jobs, they parrot th...