obama leads by double digits. all three polls were of likely voters. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, does mitt romney's tax plan make any sense for the middle class? text a for yes, text b for no to 622639. or go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. i'll bring you the results later in the show. i'm joined by democratic strategist bob shrum and msnbc analyst and former rnc chairman michael steele. chairman steele, let me begin with you. >> how are you doing, sir? >> how are you, my friend? >> good. >> romney's policy director calls the study bias and said it ignores the explosion of economic growth under a romney administration, but it took into account significant revenue assumed by his plan from economic growth and the numbers still don't add up. i don't want to say this is bush-like fuzzy math, but can the romney campaign so easily dismiss this study?