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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...

Joining us now, the chairman of the democratic national convention, los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. welcome to "fox news sunday." >> good to see you again, chris. >> you may be the chairman of the democratic convention but you like to say and i will read the quote you take on stupid whereever is exists. what is stewed by with romney and the republicans. >> i dont want to describe either governor romney or the republicans as stupid but i will say this. if you look at their platform, the 2...

>> one thing about that is that the ryan announcement preconvention spent some of the force that you would normally get. you think of a convention that had a huge bounce bun o one ofe biggest was four years ago and the civilian announcement and hethe about performance into ad into the convention. completely stepped on the bounce from the obama convention. if ryan had been announced on the eve of the convention and gave the speech he gave i think that the effect of it would have been bigger. but ...

Brown face or a spanish sur name and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate. senator marco rubio is one of the rising stars of the republican party. that is more than tokenism, sir. >> let me be actual clear. i said in the makeup room i thought susanna martinez and mar rubio gave the two best spinaches of the convention. marco rubio was exceptional. i was never directing my comments towards him. in fact, he actual ally agreed with me. the only thing he said is if that a...

I think we are in it a new age here where convention bounces may not be what they used to be. >> chris: i was going to ask you, kirsten, particularly now and since 2004 the case where the two conventions one right next to each 84 with thre othee whole idea of a convention bounce outdated. >> it is some what jut dated. the average is about five points. around what you would have expected. polarized electorate also. i wouldnt have expected a huge bounce any way because is most people already know ...

Back to the attack on the other side. a big part of what we will hear this week and central argument you will hear from many of the speakers, certainly from bill clinton, all the republicans want to do is take us back to the policies that got us in this mess before. a lot wrong with that argument perhaps but i think it is perhaps an effective argument and one that the republicans have not yet found a way really to counter. >> chris: is hope and change and the promise of denver of 2008 dead? >> i...

That they felt that was a burden on them because if you are going to ask people to make the big switch to the party that they just voted out of power a few years ago you have to believe that that party and the country can turn this all around. >> chris: i want to go back jeff to something that you brought up in the last segment and i will tell you that we had an argument about this during the commercial that is what we do during commercials and that is that friday the jobs report comes out for a...

>> chris: president obama at a campaign stop saturday offering his review of the republican convention. it is time for our sunday group, brit hume, fox news senior political analyst. kirsten powers. bill kristol from the weekly standard and jeff zelany from the new york times. the big challenge this week may not be how he compares to mitt romney in tampa but as i suggested to david axelrod, how he compares to barack obama in 2008. is that possible? >> this will be a very different kind of conven...

There are slight leads in the battleground states. we expected a close race and we are doing everything that we can to make our chase t case te american people and charlotte is a big part of that. >> chris: thanks for talking with us and we will see you on the campaign trail. >> look forward to it. look forward to it. >> chris: up next, the chairman of the democratic convention, los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. well be right back from

Economy forward, for how to lift the middle class. in that sense i think his convention was a terrible failure. he never talked about the principal planks of his own plan and talked about his $5 trillion tax cuts skewed to the wealthy and never talked about turning medicare into a voucher pro gram. there is so many things that he didnt talk about and people walked away the voters trying to decide and said what alternative exactly is he offering. >> chris: but you keep talking about romney. i wou...