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Their wealth, rather, the median wealth of household in america, $57,000. but for the top 1%, their net worth was over $16 million. that's a 288 times as large as the median household wealth. how do you and that kind much gap say the rich ought to continue to get more cuts and not the middle class and not the poor? >> well, i think what michelle said is the fact that romney is not showing any leadership. he's not giving folks an alternative plan. there's nothing there to hang your head on. folks just don't connect with romney. they see him. he's a super wealthy man. they don't share his lifest...

States, but the president's got more options, leads in more places and he's got a likability factor that helps him a lot. just as mitt romney saw in his speech the need to raise his faif favorablety, the president's task last night was to deal with the disappointment factor and give people who vote for him, but don't like the results, a reason to be hopeful and i think that's how his speech was. >> this is my theory on how to see the bump. it's not going to be in the head to head. you'll know if there was a bump. likabilile tility for romney. >> likability gap, yes, romney has not solved that ...

Speech was about. both of the conventions are trying to improve the likability factor. this negative campaign has taken a real toll. >>shepard: people mostly know president obama. we have had him in our likes for five or six years now. governor romney, from what i am able to discern, i don't think people really know him yet. they don't get engamed until after the labor day holiday. >>guest: you are right of the it could be that both these conventions do not matter that much because voters may not tune in until after the convention. >>shepard: it will be interesting to see what happens tonight ...

Not locked in with the republican crazies and number two, he's willing to stake out his own ground. i had a friend of mine who is disappointed in obama and he came up to me after akin and said you win. he said i don't like what the president's done but i'm voting for him. the other side is just full of crazy people. >> governor pataki, does mitt romney need to don overalls and milk a cow? >> well, i wish ed rendell had. it would have been a great picture. but no, i think ed is right, that he has to be himself and he is going to be himself. but i think he's wrong, ed is wrong in the sense that ...

Romney camp today at a breakfast briefing, they are very confident with these numbers. they say it's a very favorable way, a tied race, to go into their convention. >> it's a tied race going into the convention and a few interesting things of note in that poll, when it comes to the issue of the economy, it seems that americans do believe mitt romney is the right guy to get the economy back on track. when you look at other issues, how the republicans would want to deal with medicare, women's rights, who understands the middle class, the president still wins on that. so heading into this convent...