Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120811:06:08:00
Spend rate. the democrat side and their supporters were spending money on tv ads at an extraordinarily fast rate. what they were doing was defining mitt romney before he defines himself. focusing on the tax issue, on bain, on everything negative they could throw at him. it was a really -- a hammering that he's taken this summer. on top of that, he had a bad foreign trip, which could have been a plus, but was something of a minus. i'm not sure how big a minus in the long stretch of things, but certainly did not go well for him. and as you point out, he was falling behind. and this, i assume, th...