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At a four month high. yesterday the bureau of labor statistics revealed the economy added 400,000 more jobs than originally reported during the 12 months ending in march and back on the campaign trail yesterday, the president began framing his economic policies in patriotic terms. >> during campaign season you always hear a lot about patriotism. well you know what, its time for a new economic patriotism. an economic patriotism rooted in the belief that growing our economy begins with a strong an...

Think the debates will be interesting for the exact matter that something unexpected has to happen to really change the race for romney. its hard to imagine -- its hard to imagine obama going in there and doing a terrible job. its possible. sort of equally impossible to imagine romney doing such an outstanding job, so different than weve ever expected that would also make a difference and yet, thats what he really has to go for. >> you say that except in 2004, i keep talking about 2004 today, yo...

Why pueblo. president beat john mccain in this county by 15 points. economic message resonates here. here is why. 38%. population is hispanic. hispanics have average unemployment rate two points higher than at least than the national average. here overall in pueblo unemployment is 11%. you can imagine what hispanic unemployment is here. mitt romney will drive home the message of jobs and economy in pueblo, in an effort to counter those perceptions that have been created by the obama campaign. >>...

Points a week. were not seeing that yet and the playing field is slightly different than it was going to be. the outside groups are still going to massively favor the republicans, we think, at least the rate of fund-raising is going right now, crossroads has done successfully and much more than the democratic groups have. but it is not quite the same thing as we had thought. the other important thing here is that the obama folks you see that in the numbers, invested very early in advertising spe...

Its very much you sort of work your way up through the last congressmans office, and then you get appointed and everyone rallies around to put you into the seat next. that tends to be from man to man. i think thats changing a lot now, but we arent seeing it move up the offices as quickly as in other states. i think it is changing. i think there are a lot of perceptions, and it certainly does not help matters at all that elizabeth warren is running in the immediate wake of martha coakley, who is,...

Bill: the administration now confirming that the deaths of four americans last week in benghazi libya came as a result of a terror attack on september 11th and not a spontaneous protest as the consulate has previously suggested. will that shift have an impact on the race for the white house. ben le bow, national press secretary for obama is rust. how damaging is this to the campaign when it comes to perceptions of foreign policy and keeping americans safe? >> listen, in terms of the situation in...

Lake city and dallas raising money, when he needs to be in battleground states? >> obviously reflects the calculation on the campaigns part that this race will be, in fact, largely about a resource war in the final weeks. the romney campaign does fundamentally believe this is still a national campaign. in other words, if they could change perceptions, broad perceptions of romney nationally, then they would see those numbers and the individual states they need to win go up. its a somewhat differe...

The country about their perceptio perceptions. those people i told that the 5 or 6 or 7% that we have to bring out on our side, they all avoted for barack obama four years ago. by the way, when you say to them, do you think barack obama is a failure, they overwhelmingly say no. they like him, but when you say are you disappointed that his policies havent worked? they say yes. because they voted for him they dont want to be told that they were wrong, that hes a bad guy, that he did bad things and...

Ago. you got a problem. >> two decades ago? >> it was more than a decade. what was it a decade ago? >> well, anyway, look. i think that says something about the president of the united states that he thinks we should redistribute wealth. >> that is actually not what he said. if were being genuine about his remarks what he was saying was the role of government and the role of government to basically help those who are less fortunate. that is a fundamental difference between these two campaigns. t...

Are asking to contribute to finance this strategy. >> exactly. and what you see happening here is today people have lined up to take one big whack at him after another. and whatever hes been saying, trying to backtrack or i think theres been some very fancy tap dancing going on but the fact remains, hes on the defense once again. any day hes on the defensive is not a bad day for him. hes not doing well enough to coast. hes had to spend his day doing damage control. >> damage he caused. ryan, whe...