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And the advantage to the president at this juncture, 49%, 43%. a lot of positives for the president in terms of how voters evaluate him. >> let's talk about -- >> there are a couple areas that seem to matter, if you go inside the numbers with be who has the advantage when it comes to ideas of improving the economy? those numbers on the screen, the advantage is to governor romney at 40% to 34%. who would be better when it comes to changing business as usual in washington? again, romney. many positive attributes that voters see in the president, those have to be warning signs. >> you pulled 13 a...

Break the impasse on spending, to break the impasse on taxes? to deal with real problems like medicare and social security. those have not been dealt with, which it seems to me, is one of the reasons people look to governor romney. >> i don't think he has a better shot to change business as usual. when all you do is take a negative approach as he has done, the only ideas he's offered are recycled ideas from the last decade. there was a spokesperson at the republican national committee who said this week that this is just the bush policies updated. she may not be elected employee of the month o...

It would have reassured middle of the road voters that he could reach down. there will be a lot of pressure on romney to move right. if he gives into it, he makes the same mistake mccain did. portman, he's not tintlating but he'll reassure middle ground voters. >> he's the safe choice. the one piece of baggage he brings is the bush years you do have the obama campaign. a wild card that i think will be serious in a couple of months is the senator from new hampshire. i think he has to have a woman who will get vetted. i think her background, appointed attorney general by a democratic governor. t...

Didn't fix the economy past enou -- fast enough. two key groups, one a collection of groups and can mobile mobilize turnout among african-americans and young people. we're going to have to watch the polling carefully. a lot has been with the make-up of those samples. the other is the white working class. they lost them badly in 2008 but he lost by a small margin that he won the election. that's where romney has to win. he has real disadvantages. >> let me take a quick break here. we'll come back, more about this, including the vp stakes idea, who will romney choose? we'll come back. "meet th...

That governor romney wants to reinstitute if he's elected president. >> you do have difficulties because you have an economic record, a sense of pessimism, you have a high unemployment rate. a referendum on the president guarantees what in your judgment? >> this president guarantees an economy that will grow and provide new opportunities for the middle class. it's not going to provide more of what we saw in the last decade with a narrowing group of people doing well and everybody else pedaling faster and faster. that's not a healthy economy. you build the economy from the middle out, not from ...