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ranholm. we started the show by stating romney is pursuing three strategies. rally the g.o.p. base, confuse the middle and suppress the vote of the left. so we're going to shift our conversation to romney's strategy of confusing the middle. obviously been very evident. we've talked about it earlier. if you're looking for a clear explanation on any tough issue from either mitt romney or paul ryan, i'm sorry to tell you that they're just like your bad college boyfriend who never gave. >> straight answer. you heard from romney earlier in the show. here's ryan. >>...

and what did she do with jennifer grandholm. to heck with it if this convention didn't get you fired up, then step aside. two months two men with a plan and two ways to park your car. >> in romney's world the cars get the elevator and the workers get the shaft. too much for you mitt? too bad. ♪ >> jennifer: good evening, i'm jennifer grandholm. and i'm exhausted. as you may have heard i gave this little speech last night at the democratic national convention. it was totally fun, exciting a wild ride. there was so much energy inside the convention hall i just had to hold on for dear...

he president wrapped up his convention. 96,000 new jobs were added last month, which dropped the unemployment rate from 8.3% to 8.1%. but it is not good enough. here is how the campaigns spun the jobs report. >> today we learned that after losing around 800,000 jobs a month when i took office, businesses added jobs for the 30th month in a row. [ cheers and applause ] >> he was going to get people back to work. you remember with his -- his stimulus plan. the stimulus said if we let him borrow $787 billion he would hold unemployment below 8%. it has been 43 strai...

so who do you think said that? a crusader against poverty? no. it was charles koch the billionaire oil tycoon who has invested millions in building the grassroots tea party movement. he came out an op-ed today on the right-wing website "news max," in which he called for small government and cried for a system that allows the wealthy to control the agenda the idea that koch is complaining about cronyism would be laughable, if it weren't so true about him. so when paul ryan was auditions for the vice presidential role, the koch-backed americans for prosperity group, the tea party group...

♪ reme economic agenda but his social policies are equally stunning. how bad are they? let's just say michele bachmann bad. take a look. on women's issues ryan says that he is has pro life as it gets. he cosponsored a personhood amendment, which means that life begins at fertilization, which outlaws, abortion the morn-after pill some iuds, michele bachmann supported that as well. that's paul ryan. that's michele bachmann. and by the way also he went even further than bachmann when he voted for a law that would allow hospitals to refuse to administer an emergency aborti...