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Said that the affordable care act can stay mostly intact, and this is the only thing they can do in reaction to that. they have to be -- they have to say to those people yeah, we're back at it and here we go, one more of these things and look, both bodies have always had these kinds of stunt votes. when i was there we used to try to pass things that we knew couldn't pass because we just wanted to get the recorded vote, so then someone could go out and run a senate campaign against a republican, saying you voted against this. >> is it 33 or 34? >> i reported on this last night. i actually thoug...

You take a look. >> joining us now from washington is ken blackwell, former secretary of state from ohio. ken, thanks for joining the program. >> good to be with you. >> so i wonder, having watched that, having watched those excerpts, having watched the speech, how would you grade governor romney's performance and do you think he has convinced anyone in the african-american community to vote for him? anyone who might not have the day before? >> i gave him a b-plus. i think he went into it where he had to be authentic and he had to be cognizant of the fact that he was not only speaking to the f...

Initiatives, he was saying we got to get this economy growing again. energy and all of the above approach is what i will use. bringing down the cost of gasoline, bringing down energy costs, is going to drive our economic expansion and job creation. he knew going into that, this was a political calculation, that there is dissatisfaction in the african-american community that after three and a half years, there is an unemployment rate of about 14% in the african-american community, and blaming it on bush is getting old, even in the african-american community. and look, there's not going to be a ...

Some kind of economic policy -- >> forget his 59 point economic plan. we can go back and look at that. >> do you think he can skate through? >> it's been done. it wouldn't be the first time. you know, look, rush limbaugh said yesterday something that is true. it happens from time to time. he said look, romney doesn't matter. this is nothing but a vote against obama and he went on to fill it up with his hatred of obama and that is really what this is. it's an anti-obama campaign. that's it. so from that side of it, you don't have to -- romney doesn't have to get specific about anything. >> exce...