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For language, will that be useful in the obama campaign? >> i think it will be hugely useful. it revs up their base. too many white working class voters have take then bill of goods that republicans are going to help them when all they have to offer is tax cuts. >> thank you so much. andrea mitchell, joan walsh, and david corn. politico described the dysfunction of romney's campaign itself when staffers blame one another for romney losing ground. is it too late for romney to change course and deal with this problem we just showed you? plus, if you can't impress the voters, you suppress them,...

Speeches early on in the campaign, and i'm surprised that there hasn't been more specificity, more policies, something that shows what the broader vision is. i mean, 50 days is not a lot of time left to do that. >> but, mark, you're a wordsmith and you have given me 100 words and all i want is one, yes or no. does he have an inner core of personality and compassion that the american people will find attractive but haven't seen yet? >> chris, i have no idea. i have no idea. i don't work for romney and i haven't seen it yet. >> okay. >> i haven't seen it -- >> i love the answer now. steve, let m...

>> let me go to -- do you want to respond? these process pieces. a minute with you here. to me that piece talked a lot more than -- there was a lot of backstory there, a lot of importance. you wrote about process, sure, about how the campaign can't have a coherent message. the biggest message was it doesn't have a clear sense of why he's running. joy, do you want to jump in here. he called it a process piece. that's an interesting shot. >> chris, it was interesting. that was a ceo talking to his board of directors about why they had a bad quarter and explaining it away. that was not a guy who ...

Talking about a large segment of the republican base. like it or not, there are a lot of white people, older white people in that category as well. so they've gone from stigmatizing and doing this dog whistle stuff to now it's just crystal clear. there just aren't that many. i think the country is 12% black. if you're talking about 47% of the electorate, it's equal opportunity contempt. it's hugely damaging. >> jim mecina of the campaign has said this about romney's comments. it's shocking that a candidate for the president of the united states would go behind closed door and declare to a grou...

Of chapters left to play in this game. >> is there a romney personality that will show that we haven't seen yet, a likable guy? i mean it. a charming, debonair romney that will be compassionate and connect with people that we've never met before? >> well, i think people saw a side of reagan in 1980 they hadn't seen in the debates. i think a lot of people who haven't been paying close attention will pay attention. the question is does he have some core to show, some vision, some humanity we haven't seen, and it's been a long campaign and we haven't seen it yet but there's that opportunity, chri...