and the addition of mike bloomberg and then earlier in the week colin powell, a moderate republican, that s a trifecta, bloomberg, christie, powell. more moderate republicans who are for all intents and purposes connected to this president in this last week. john, doesn t it also define who is responsible for the failure of bipartisanship because the president has repeatedly extended his hand, and if someone grasps it, he will work with them. the problem is they have refused to do so. mitch mcconnell has repeatedly refused to do so. boehner tried to. eric cantor, no thanks. that s the reality, isn t it? well, this is what yes, it is the reality, and what s unfortunate about some of these articles that are coming out that are essentially endorsing romney like david brooks column saying, well, romney will be able to get along better with congress, but the message that this would send is that
the election. we re expecting air force one to touch down in las vegas in just a few moments, and earlier today in wisconsin the president regathered his campaign fight making his closing argument in this election and urging voters to say no to the purveyors of cynicism. they spent millions to stop us from reforming health care and wall street and student loans, and their strategy from the start was to engineer pure gridlock in congress. their bet is on cynicism. but wisconsin, my bet is on you. of course, wisconsin is a key part of the president s so-called midwest firewall, including iowa and ohio. states leaning in his favor that would hand him the election. even with romney sweeping the rest. our newest poll shows the president s lead holding but narrowing. in wisconsin romney has cut his opponent s lead from six points to three.
taking that quite seriously, and even though this isn t been an issue unfortunately in this campaign and even though i think the president cares about this, wants to do something about it, he s been sort of beat back by obstructionistic congress on this front, mike bloomberg sees it as a serious matter. it s a reminder in these closing days when we get focused on firewalls and gaffes and nongaffes, what comes on tuesday has a lot to do with the future of this nation and the future of the world, quite frankly, because the nights is such unit such an impact. i think bloomberg is bridging us back to why we re in this. i want to get your rae action on reaction on bloomberg and read you what the economist has said. they said mr. romney has an economic plan that works only if you don t believe most of what he says. this is not a convincing pitch