of the attacks on bain, on mitt romney not releasing his tax returns, on all of the criticisms about mitt romney and his wealth and him being out of touch, being seemingly on safari in his own country, that it made sen that he would say something like this. so by laying the ground work, harry reid, by obsessively hammering away when no one at the time was paying attention, when no one really knew who the koch brothers were, now with the three things that happened last week, the ryan budget, the 7.1 million people signing up for the affordable care act, as michael tamaski pointed out those three things crystallized for the american people what really is at stake here and who is involved in it. yeah. eric, the point being that you put up a face to the idea of this sort of olagarchy creeping in. when you put a face on it, it s
great to have you on the show. thanks, mika. are the four? those are the four. we ll go through those. you talk to a lot of people who would know these answers. yeah. we spent about three years surveying about 500 entrepreneurs and global leaders in all different countries to find out what makes entrepreneurs tick and we surveyed them with what we think is the first yapty today task asking them tradeoffs and came down to heart, smarts, guts and luck that really drive their self-awareness and decision making. okay. by the way, before the interview is over i want to ask about the attacks on bain and private equity issue. can t wait. because in this economy i would like to hear it these are the characteristics that you think could make or break or could just put someone over the top in terms of success? everyone first off, the underlying quality of any leader or any entrepreneur s self-awareness and what you need is a baseline of all four of these traits.
opinion. and 23% now have a negative view of bain capital. just 12% have a positive view. from the beginning, romney has tried to make this election simply a referendum on the president. but the polling shows voters are viewing it as a choice between two candidates and two very different ways of seeing the world. joining me now is democratic strategist bob shrum w. thank you for being here. thank you. bob, are you surprised to see the attacks on bain and romney s tax returns, having an effect? no, i always thought they would. they had a huge effect in 1994. i thought the beltway dismissal of them at the beginning was entirely wrong. look, there are a lot lot of polling noise out there. but what this poll, which i think is the gold standard, incomes/ wall street journal
obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama s campaign ads have been negative. 3 in 4. to be sure, both campaigns are playing hard ball
running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive. according to other reports, since the general campaign began, as many as 3 in 4 of president obama s campaign ads have been negative. 3 in 4. to be sure, both campaigns are playing hard ball. during the two weeks ending july 9th, about 89% of oba