republican sweep happening on the right? first, what s happening with donald trump that he s only giving $100,000? but yes, our numbers have been picking up and in fact, we re just now in the middle of $10 million we spent on television ads about mitt romney s time in the private sector and they re clearly starting to work, if you look at any of the numbers out there, any public polling or focus groups, they re clearly working. so our fund-raising has picked up considerably and the spending that we re doing is having an impact. i want to open up to our panel a little. margaret, when we talk about the advantages and disadvantages of having super pacs do your dirty work, if you will, one of the things we talked about on morning joe was the message management, which is to say we saw a little of this during the jeremiah wright kerfuffle, the ads that were never actually aired or were never actually ads to begin with but took mitt romney off message. he didn t want to deal with it, he
in terms of message management now, obviously the koch brothers and restore our future are not coordinating with the romney campaign but i wonder how given that, that dilutes the efficacy of having a unified message where team obama seems to have a clear set of talking points. it is a concern that you can t control what other people are saying independently when they re spending inpendently. on the other hand, i think what you just referenced was kind of an early warning sign, red flag, and you know, the people who are spending a ton of money to support mitt romney s campaign don t want to mess it up. they really don t want to mess it up. so in some ways you don t have to coordinate. it s like between twitter and all the surrogates and, you know, people out there from the campaign talking about the message, once everybody kind of circles the wagons it s not hard to see what the message is. i feel they have not workshopped a cohesive strategy in terms of dealing with three sort of f
are not taxi drivers but she got her detail leader removed over that so the management rather than backing the person who is doing his job removed him. that is the message management is sending. peter: in terms of the management, where does the buck stop? department of homeland security runs the secret service. is that a problem? guest: that is a problem. after the secret service became submerged in that the corner cutting began president president bush. and, you asked about president obama, he said, well not amendmentses turn out to be true i ll be angry. they are not allegations they are his own secret service agency that have new confirmed. to be angry is not nexting the problem. peter: thank you on this saturday morning. the most powerful federal agency you probably never have heard
i know message management is something you used to do. could you have planned the i have to say. it s perfect. i m a cynic. am i being too cynical here? yes. bo s a dog who s always liked the spotlight. that s true. bo has very strong friendships, i d say i think bo has probably created a few jobs in his time. but bo is a part of that white house. you can t really bring people to the white house without bo making his appearance. this outreach to local media, this was a little more creative. took him three years? maybe i m chuck, i think there has been outreach to the local media. but what yesterday showed is you can if you really want to break through to tv reporters, you have to bring in your big guns like bo. taking a page right out of george w. bush s way to get
economy. we saw a recent poll that came out today that said 44% of americans still frankly do not understand what obamacare is and that s still not the number one issue for them. it still is the economy. at the end of the day if you re running for u.s. congress, running for governor, running for senate, i don t think it makes a difference. if you re running for attorney general, perhaps it may make a difference because clearly you will be the one implementing the state regulations on this. lizz, we talk about this a lot in terms of message management. the gop is fairly adept at managing the message and getting everybody to march in lockstep. democrats are not as good. on something like the affordable care act, it always this is a highly beneficial piece of legislation and yet, you have so much, 2010 was obviously a major walk-back in terms of democrats not wrapping their arms around it. we already know that 15 republican governors are saying they are not going to enact the medicaid