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Electorate now. >> romney has to do better than mccain did which i think was 31%, bush got 44. he has to get into the mid to upper 30s to win this thing. president obama's attack the romney/ryan ticket on another front accusing them of gutting american education. you guessed it, to help the rich. >> the president: governor romney's proposing cuts to pay for a new five trillion dollar tax
Issue that the party has to deal with the gop platform committee met in tampa earlier this week tried to work out some language. it does include more security measures, border security, e-verify also a guessworker program. the party is struggling with this issue but they to come to terms. >> if they lose the hispanic vote they are likely to lose the election. think knew this was coming and they've allowed it to happen this is a big chunk of the electorate now. >> romney has to do better than mccain did which i think was 31%, bush got 44. he has to get into the mid to upper 30s to win this thin...
R the corporation for public broadcasting. it's the home of elmo and big bird. the environmental protection agency would have a 29% cut to its budget. and republicans are proposing cuts, for example, to community health services. thet setting up a huge fight. republicans control the house. but not the senate or the white house. i caught up with ed markey. >> they refuse to cut the tax breaks of big oil, but yet they turn around and say they're going to cut big bird and all its friends. on the other hand house republican todd aiken said the reality is you're going to have to cut somewhere. ther...
Know, close half of the elderly, for example, over 85, have a medium income of $15,000 a year. they have no discretionary income. there's no other place they can look for in the budget to replace the funding. when you think of 3.1 million households that's like 800,000 holds in new york state, they're not families that have a lot of other places to go. we know what happens. they buy less food, less medicine, less clothing. they're very poor families. >> mark, this is what the white house is saying, the budget director saying proposing cuts they're taking them back to 2008 levels. the reason th...
>> they're promising the crack down on protests. >> in 2003 tom friedman and other people wrote articles. friedman said when he went to iran he expected them to say "death to america" because of the iraq invasion. he said most people he talked to were angry because we didn't go there. these are a group of people that we've heard for years 75% are pro western. this could light a fire -- >> every one of these countries has young people, some people who want to see change. we'll see what happens in the other places. >> your second story driving the week, the president's budget. proposing cuts for...