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There is a saying in american politics. no campaign is ever as good as it looks when it is winning, nor as bad as it looks when it is losing. in mitt romneys comments on libya, you see part of the reason why campaigns end up looking so very bad when they are losing. a few months ago, the romney campaign had a clear theory of the race. to keep the focus on the economy. when other issues came up, they had a clear strategy for dealing with them. you acknowledge the issue, you put out some restraine...

To hunt terrorists like these down, make romney look presidential, but whatever you do, do not interrupt the underlying dynamics of the election. this is, by and large, actually, the template that other major republicans have followed in their responses to the attacks. look at speaker john boehners statement, for instance. he said, "we mourn the families of our countrymen in benghazi and condemn this horrific attack. 11 years after september 11th, this is a jolting reminder that freedom remains ...

The president took agelast as president of the conference of mayors we passed the simpson bowles plan as a template for moving forward and the president has done the same. you talked about the republican convention. mr. ryan raised that as well. what he didnt say is he was a member of that commission and didnt vote for it. >> chris: i understand. it was the presidents commission and he did nothing with it. >> what the president has done he is also cutting $4 trillion out of this deficit. now, he...

Mayors we passed the simpson bowles plan as a template for moving forward and the president has done the same. you talked about the republican convention. mr. ryan raised that as well. what he didnt say is he was a member of that commission and didnt vote for it. >> chris: i understand. it was the presidents commission and he did nothing with it. >> what the president has done he is also cutting $4 trillion out of this deficit. now, he is not cutting -- >> chris: but in a way that republicans wi...

>> we passed it as a template as a framework for moving forward. the president has done the same. you talked about the republican convention. he rea ryan reads that as well. he was a member of the commission but didnt vote for it. >> its the presidents commission he did nothing with it. >> he is cutting 4 trillion out of this deficit. >> in a way it will not fly. >> he didnt have mr. ryans support. you are right it wasnt exactly reflective of mr. -- >> it did have republicans and democrats as we...

Mayors we passed the simpson bowles plan as a template for moving forward and the president has done the same. you talked about the republican convention. mr. ryan raised that as well. what he didnt say is he was a member of that commission and didnt vote for it. >> chris: i understand. it was the presidents commission and he did nothing with it. >> what the president has done he is also cutting $4 trillion out of this deficit. now, he is not cutting -- >> chris: but in a way that republicans wi...

Mayors we passed the simpson bowles plan as a template for moving forward and the president has done the same. you talked about the republican convention. mr. ryan raised that as well. what he didnt say is he was a member of that commission and didnt vote for it. >> chris: i understand. it was the presidents commission and he did nothing with it. >> what the president has done he is also cutting $4 trillion out of this deficit. now, he is not cutting -- >> chris: but in a way that republicans wi...

Idea. the id -- voter id law is carefully written so the city of philadelphia does not have the right to do that. if we -- >> wow. >> the county board of elections, were allowed to issue little paper voter registration cards saying youre registered to vote, congratulations, but we, the county board of elections is not allowed to issue ids that people can use for voting. >> i tell you what, if anybody has a formula to save pennsylvania for the democrats, i am all ears. ill devote all kinds of tim...

>> absolutely. the opposition is making the gradual strides. they probably control at least half of the country, maybe more. i think the united states will continue to get gradually more involved, providing slightly more capable arms, but what were facing in the future there, i believe, is prolonged sectarianism. the model, the template, is probably iraq. this is a society that has massive fault lines and the u.n. is essentially ending its peace monitor mission. the real question is whether the ...

This already in the campaign, in mitt romney has also de-emphasized issues. the pseudo social issue he was willing to talk about a lot was being really anti-immigration. beyond that, he wasnt willing to talk much about gay rights, abortion rights, some of the other issues. the democrats have tried very hard to fill in that blank in mitt romneys record. the obama campaign, i think, has run a surprising number of ads overtly about his record on choice. was that successful and is that the same temp...