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Nbc news owns a web site directed mostly at african-americans. one of the employees on that web site went on tv yesterday and said this: >> i truly believe that mitt romney went into that room not to speak to the naacp but to speak to his base. if he really intended to speak to this civil rights organization, the oldest in our country, then he might have walked into the room and talked about how we fix basic public education because we know education disrupts poverty. >> bill: we'll get to the speaking to his base remark in a moment. now, either ms. taylor missed it or she is not being honest ...

>> jamie: angela, what does governor romney need to could do, last answer. >> what governor romney needs to do put emphasis on the economy and the education system is failing us. jamie, we have 6.2 million kids that drop out of school every year and at the end of the day, it's going to cost taxpayers, 600,000 dollars for these kids, to support them. and at the end of the day, we're more concerned about unemployment, education, than undocumented workers. >> all right, thanks to both of you, angela and chris, i'm always happy to talk about the education issue, we really do need to do what we can...

A small part of the democratic base. white college-educated women. that is a small part of a larger group that democrats will need to turn out in november. this conversation about the economy expands to a much larger, much broader group. >> and alicia, these focus groups are great for showing you, i think most interestingly, what voters don't care about. you can pick several of the topics that we talk about here in the course of the week, and they won't care about them at all. they're focused on these other things. >> i think that's absolutely right, though i do think there are some points tha...

A small part of the democratic base. white college-educated women. that is a small part of a larger group that democrats will need to turn out in november. this conversation about the economy expands to a much larger, much broader group. >> and alicia, these focus groups are great for showing you, i think most interestingly, what voters don't care about. you can pick several of the topics that we talk about here in the course of the week, and they won't care about them at all. they're focused on these other things. >> i think that's absolutely right, though i do think there are some points tha...

Because it's an issue where he could show compassion for the needy, saying he cares about education for the poor, even though he wants to make all kinds of cuts in education, but the solutions he wants to push, are solutions very congenial to the right wing, he wants vouchers, he wants more charter schools. so it's a kind of a two-fer for him. george w. bush was somebody who neutralized the education issue in 2000. but in 2000, george w. bush was willing to spend more money on schools, at least rhetorically, romney is not talking that way at all. >> what about the fact, ari, that romney has ch...