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chemistry . paul ryan is a happy person and mitt romney is the same way. paul ryan is going to have to get used to eating peanut butter sandwiches . maybe paul ryan will give him a lesson on bow hunting. the atlantic magazine said it is a bro-mance; is it that? i wouldn t use those words. i think they have professional respect in understanding the next. when you talk about jobs and economy and growth and how to get the country back to work and pro growth agenda. you have someone who understands how jobs are truly created and that s at a level and depth that mitt romney and romney can talk about . that s where have great cam patibility. great to see you and thank you for taking the time. thank you. battle ground iowa. talk to governor terry about
for barack obama are disappointed in him. disappointment is the key in which the president s reelection is being played. americans will not settle for four more years of the same melancholy song. we can and must do better than that. that s mitt romney welcoming the applause to his speech there in iowa. our panel is back with us. ron christie here in new york. richard wolff and david corn in washington. you heard mitt romney talking there and blaming the president. once again, he is unfortunately untruthful when he says that democrats held the house for almost the whole of his presidency. that wasn t true. and ron christie conceded that as well here. what did you think of him saying this president has loaded debt? i thought it was president bush who was responsible for the prescription drug benefit? i thought it was president bush responsible for two unpaid for
economy. where there are great holes and there are also some good pockets of growth. the obama talks about this openly. not one national election but ten, 12 local elections in those swing states. right now iowa is doing pretty good. you think virginia is doing pretty well economically. some of the swing states are doing better than some of the red states. but, if you look at that, i don t know why they go to iowa and view this doom and gloom. i guess they think the iowa voters, still the bob dole type of republican who hates deficits. that s so not what happened during the bush years and romney s policies don t really address this, as you know. maybe it is the best he has at this moment. does it hurt you at all having been involved in the bush team? that the romney campaign steals bush era policies on foreign affairs, steals ideas on the economy, but gives you no credit what so ever? i think imitation is the best
they clearly like president barack obama but they don t like that the economy has not gotten better faster. they don t like mitt romney all that much. but they like the idea of mitt romney. mr. fix-it. a business fellow who can come in and do a turn-around like did he with staples. not gst, the steel company where everybody lost their jobs. so in other words, the bottom line here, it is complicated. and people, voters will be sorting out these conflicting feelings over the next five months which i think we will see a lot of see-sawing in the polls as they go through that process which is why it will be quite tight up until the en. indeed. we re looking at pictures there of the stage in iowa where mitt romney is expected to speak. i have to point out that the polls also show that the enthusiasm gap is alive and well. 59% are enthusiastic about mitt romney. 88% enthusiastic for the president. a third of the gop say they want another candidate. why is that?