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Do. hes proposing adding $2 trillion extra in spending just on the military and hes proposing bringing in $5 trillion fewer in revenue in order to pay for that. barack obama is right. the math does not work. the math might be boring, but the math doesnt work. if youre living paycheck to paycheck right now and you decide your going to quit your job and buy a new car at the same time. so you have less money coming in and lots more money going out. what does that make you? it makes you psyched beca...

Middle income families. i will lower taxes. you cite a study, theres six other studies that say yours is completely wrong. >> i have six studies that say im great on the deficit issue. no worries. all the giant numbers stuff doesnt make any sense to me either. look. heres a small number. i have six studies that say im fine. those six studies for the record are not actually studies. two are blog posts by a conservative think tank. one is a report by a think tank. and the others are a blog post an...

Handling a major crisis, obama by 12. medicare, obama by 15. the only issue where the president loses is this one. the issue of dealing with the deficit where its mitt romney holding a 3-point lead over president obama. the president leading on every other issue. its because of the ning that lost president obama the first presidential debate two weeks ago which was him trying to explain how mitt romney cant be trusted on the deficit by trying to do the math for everyone live on tv. saying someth...

You mentioned the president mentioning this in the debate. this is something youll hear the president mention tomorrow and its something we have to talk about as a party and as the presidents party every single day before this election. because you went through some of the math. you went through ed gillespie trying to go through the math. theres a tax cut that no study that actually looks at the real number can come up with a way to pay for it without raising taxes. on to that a trillion dollars...

I get the mathematical point the president was trying to make. no way to account for it. thats a tonover red ink. i get the math. nobody else in the country is getting that math. people really think that the republicans will do better on this. whats the distance between what they are trying to do and what people believe about what they are trying to do? >> this is one of the things -- you mentioned the president mentioning this in the debate. this is something youll hear the president mention to...

Its because of the thing that lost president obama the first presidential debate two weeks ago which was him trying to explain how mitt romney cant be trusted on the deficit by trying to do the math for everyone live on tv. saying something that sounded in translation like you have a large number with a trillion in it and some smaller trillions that when you add them up you subtract and get a number thats positive. do you follow me? president obama during that first debate was trying to do the m...

And so many of the policies that were trying to unwind right now, we ended the war in afghanistan. we had to put more troops in afghanistan, now were in the process of bringing more troops home. the bush tax cuts a lot of things that were having to continue to pay for that are really the result of horrible economic and policy decisions made four or eight years ago. >> why does mitt romney get credit for being the guy handling the deficit. i get the mathematical point the president was trying to ...

Successfully cultivated this myth that they are the ones they should trust if youre worried about the debt and the deficit. even though voters trust barack obama on every other issue, they still trust mitt romney more when it comes to the deficit. they have great faith in mitt romneys deficit hawkishness. even if the studies are just stuff written on a bathroom wall. its factually hilarious given that mitt romney is proposing this in terms of what we spend on the military. these are current leve...

I have six studies that say im fine. those six studies for the record are not actually studies. two are blog posts by a conservative think tank. one is a report by a think tank. one is a paper by a former george bush advisor. and the others are a blog post and a "wall street journal" op-ed by a mitt romney adviser. calling those things studies is like calling me the homecoming queen. its very flattering, but come on. the romney campaign has been trying to wish away the math with this six studies...

I will lower taxes. you cite a study, theres six other studies that say yours is completely wrong. >> i have six studies that say im great on the deficit issue. no worries. all the giant numbers stuff doesnt make any sense to me either. look. heres a small number. i have six studies that say im fine. those six studies for the record are not actually studies. two are blog posts by a conservative think tank. one is a report by a think tank. one is a paper by a former george bush advisor. and the o...