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It's because of the thing that lost president obama the first presidential debate two weeks ago which was him trying to explain how mitt romney can't be trusted on the deficit by trying to do the math for everyone live on tv. saying something that sounded in translation like you have a large number with a trillion in it and some smaller trillions that when you add them up you subtract and get a number that's positive. do you follow me? president obama during that first debate was trying to do the math over and over and over again as a way of explaining that what mr. romney is proposing would b...

And so many of the policies that we're trying to unwind right now, we ended the war in afghanistan. we had to put more troops in afghanistan, now we're in the process of bringing more troops home. the bush tax cuts a lot of things that we're having to continue to pay for that are really the result of horrible economic and policy decisions made four or eight years ago. >> why does mitt romney get credit for being the guy handling the deficit. i get the mathematical point the president was trying to make. no way to account for it. that's a ton of red ink. i get the math. nobody else in the count...

Successfully cultivated this myth that they are the ones they should trust if you're worried about the debt and the deficit. even though voters trust barack obama on every other issue, they still trust mitt romney more when it comes to the deficit. they have great faith in mitt romney's deficit hawkishness. even if the studies are just stuff written on a bathroom wall. it's factually hilarious given that mitt romney is proposing this in terms of what we spend on the military. these are current levels of military spending. our biggest discretionary spending. that's what he's proposing to do. he...

I have six studies that say i'm fine. those six studies for the record are not actually studies. two are blog posts by a conservative think tank. one is a report by a think tank. one is a paper by a former george bush advisor. and the others are a blog post and a "wall street journal" op-ed by a mitt romney adviser. calling those things studies is like calling me the homecoming queen. it's very flattering, but come on. the romney campaign has been trying to wish away the math with this six studies magical incantation. they have been trying to use this six studies thing for so long that even th...

I will lower taxes. you cite a study, there's six other studies that say yours is completely wrong. >> i have six studies that say i'm great on the deficit issue. no worries. all the giant numbers stuff doesn't make any sense to me either. look. here's a small number. i have six studies that say i'm fine. those six studies for the record are not actually studies. two are blog posts by a conservative think tank. one is a report by a think tank. one is a paper by a former george bush advisor. and the others are a blog post and a "wall street journal" op-ed by a mitt romney adviser. calling those...