eric: good. thank you. dana: kimberly we re all political junkies. a lot of the viewers are political junkies. greg: some of us are just junkies. dana: i wanted to ask that. is politics like taking drugs? today is quiet on the campaign trail. all of us what are they doing? what is the headline? kimberly: what is going on? is there time for october surprise? this is an accurate state of what is going on in the race. you are seeing obama get out the knives. sharping up the criticism. he has to do something. we have seen a pivot back to tactics he was using earlier in the campaign when he enjoyed success. which is going on the offensive. go after bain capital and scare the heck out of women in america. make romney the big, bad boogie guy to take away women s rights and strip away roe v. wade. he has to avoid that. that is why he gave obama a bear hug in the debate to say look, we re not so different
united states who cannot be honest with the american people. why level about anything if he s president? how do we know american voters out there at this point which mitt romney we d get as president after seeing the display we saw last night and seeing a pivot back to the middle? well, i think, thomas, first of all, thank you for having me on. welcome back from your honeymoon. thank you. i hope you had a great time and what you ve seen in the last three debates is mitt romney and the first debate, a fabulous job. we agree that president obama was basically asleep. second debate, pretty muched him but the foreign policy debate is very different because what he had to do is go against somebody who s commander in chief and obama has a different stature in the debate and has to look like he can be commander in chief and he had a command of the facts, he knew exactly not just cliff notes but i would say in-depth what was happening and where he agreed with president obama, he agreed a
outlook and china is slower but new we have improvement here at home, manufacturing is higher and the first time in six months we have seen that. good there. hope we have a trend. one report does not a trend make but we can be hopeful. we are learning the mountains of debt that many college graduates face are getting bigger. college loan debt soared to an average of $26,600 for each borrower in a class of 2012 a jump of 5 percent according to college access and success institute. that figure is the highest we have seen in the seven year history. the report also found that two of every three college students finished school with student loan debt. we have the chief business correspondent author of rebounders how winners pivot back.
not paying attention so much? so if this is another ross perot typo moment in 1992, remember when he got out his chalk board and said the program is unsustainable, if the american people are ready for that, the romney approach might work. if the people are disengaged and listen to the sound bites, maybe not so much. steve: if it is i ve heard some suggest that okay, the romney camp is going to continue to push the president on medicare this week right up to the convention, and then afterwards they re going to pitch rot and talk about the president s performance on jobs. that s a winner for the republicans, isn t it? the economy and jobs ultimately has to be the winner for the republican party because the economy has not performed well. if you look at the figures people are unhappy about the direction of the country. so if this is a pivot back to that, that may be a winning strategy. if they continue to get bogged down in entitlement reforms, that s a harder row for them. ultimate
won t be able to move on. this is about medicare until move. there won t be a pivot back to the original message of jobs. what romney wanted to run on. when you put a guy on your ticket, probably the strongest ideologue in the republican party and his ideology reinvolves around changing medicare, you have to have that conversation on election day. thank you, both. appreciate your time. thanks, craig. the bond between president obama and vice president biden, and how they work together we ll talk about that in ten minutes. and officials in dallas ground plans to spray a pesticide due to bad weather. west nile virus is blamed for killing ten people in the dallas-ft. worth area and infecting others. this week, the city started aerial spraying for the first