Things Arent Great News Today

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The electorate is here, behind the choices that jason just suggested they might be? >> barack obama won this election by very effectively making this a referendum about his opponent, mitt romney. so if you went out and you asked most americans, do you think barack obama did a great job in his first term? do you want significantly higher taxes? do you want the government to do nothing about spending? are you happy with obamacare? most would say no, but in the end the choice was between a presiden...

Electorat is here? is it be ibd hue the choices that -- is it behind the choices that jason suggested they might be? >> barack obamaus won this election by very effectively making this a referendum about his opponent, mitt romney. if you went out and asked most americans, do you think barack obama did a great job in his first term? do you want significantly higher taxes? do you want the government to do nothing about spending? are you happy with obama care? most would say no. but in the end the ...

The electorate is here, behind the choices that jason just suggested they might be? >> barack obama won this election by very effectively making this a referendum about his opponent, mitt romney. so if you went out and you asked most americans, do you think barack obama did a great job in his first term? do you want significantly higher taxes? do you want the government to do nothing about spending? are you happy with obamacare? most would say no, but in the end the choice was between a presiden...

When he made his whole point about bipartisanship. also he had to tackle the big issue of whether the americans and the country are better off than four years ago. how did he delve into that last night? >> rob, he asked that question directly. before he answered it, he let the crowd answer it. everybody started cheering. are you better off today than four years ago? they went nuts. a resounding yes. he went through bullet points of the policy issues. president obama invested in america, infrastr...

On the wrong track which is close to what it was shortly before president obama took office. president obama and his campaign team, and i think we saw this in the state of the union address with his attempt to project optimism, theyre counting on the trends going in the right direction. so their argument will be, in effect, look, things arent great. we understand this has been a long time, its taken a long time for us to correct the problems that we inherited, but, boy, things are certainly turn...

>> hey,ç major, sounds like thomas friedman put together talking points for the president and the white house. is that the argument theyre going to use over the next year? yes, things arent great, but we stopped the economy from going over the cliff. >> and look at rahm emanuels speech, that is the pitch for reelection. big issues, big decisions, did what he said he would do, what he promised to do as a candidate. hes tried to carry out in as many different ways as possible as president. there...