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Who cares about them. how shes able -- how she -- elizabeth warren will bring the personality and she cares about us thing together will be really tough because as weve seen, the reason why pollsters ask these questions and the reason why we focus on the likability question, is because it matters. >> what does likability mean? does it mean scott brown has a pick-up truck? i mean -- i mean it is -- to me, i understand that in massachusetts, there seems to be also a kind of predisposition against ...

Economy versus likability. the economys a drag on the president, but likability, been a problem for mitt romney. >> its interesting you bring up the likability question, and weve talked a lot about that, but im curious, is there maybe too much emphasis on that? in romneys speech, he talked about his religion, he talked about his family and told intimate stories regarding his family, but when it came to, for example, the question of how he would create those 12 million jobs, he says he could. the...

On cares about the need of people that like you, 12 points above honesty. he needs to narrow those things down. the karl rove, haley barbour argument, you dont have to be super popular and likable but can have an incumbent with that kind of advantage on leadership qualities and win. >> do we make too much of the likability question? is that something people vote on? president obama, you know, some people may object to his economic policies, economy is not going the way they want it to but they l...

Correspondent for the guardian. thank you both for joining me. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> david, is it too late for romney to try to fill in the blanks on his biography? >> i dont think its too late to fill in the blanks. he needs to talk to a lot of people who dont know a lot of the details because as you mentioned, he doesnt talk about a lot of the details on the campaign trail. there are a lot of people just tuning in now. what i think is its a tough call for him to try to make himself likab...

Over the other, the likability of the democrat over the likability of the republican, it is a huge gap, and the only way mitt romney has been able to close that is profiting politically on the fact that we have high unemployment in this country and the economy is not going as well as people hoped. >> governor rendell, i want to follow on the likability question. were talking about it during the break. ill read to you some words from "the washington post." its very plausible that in spite of thei...

Sort of aura and i think they thought that this was the opportunity to do it. >> is there really evidence to call the president angry, though? >> i do think this is a stretch and i think its potentially a miscalculation. its true, the strategy here is they want to have a level playing field on the likability question but the key for them is not so much to try to tear obama down to where romney is right now. its to try to build romney back up to where obama is, because romney has really sort of h...

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I have some sympathy for him. obviously his religious heritage and belief are important to him, a central part of his life, but cant talk about it politically, feels he cant talk about it. now he is in this situation today, who is the more likeable candidate, barack obama or mitt romney, it is 62-30, obama. romney is just getting slayed on this likability question. that suggests he has to do something to tell people something about himself, his biography. he has to tell more of the story who he ...

Happy mothers day. >> thank you. as well to you. i want to start with you. tell me about your story. want folks to have an understanding, when we say mothers in jail, in prison, what were talking about and facing here. >> all right. so in 1994, i gave birth to my son, last son, ky in prison. i was shackled and handcuffed during birth and delivery in transport to and from the prison. and i believe at that time i understood why i was in prison. i was there for a parole violation, but i just could ...