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The campaign shuffle. >> michelle, wasn't romney the mr. economy, the mr. fix it guy? i mean, the fact that he ran as that and he's been rejected in that area, which is normally a republican stronghold, that's a big deal, isn't it? >> this is hard for him but partly he didn't come up with his own plan. he has always latched onto the ryan plan. and this is where i think democrats are going to say, well, you know, there's a big difference between the kind of business maneuvers that romney does, where you shift jobs overseas and pare down businesses and try to build up a society and run a governm...

Seizing on the romney ticket's lack of specifics. >> romney's been asked, ryan's been asked, what loopholes do you want to close. they will not say. it's part of their fictitious math because, see, when they start talking about how fast they run a marathon, or holes they want to plug, they have to actually give facts. they refuse to do that. >> in an attempt to decipher what exactly is in mitt romney's tax plan, citizens for tax justice calculates that even if every loophole was closed under the romney/ryan plan, millionaires would still get a quarter million dollar tax break. and for team rom...

That's not even truthful. in tampa, they talk with great urgency about the nation's debt and the need to act, to act now. but not once, not one single time did they tell you that they rejected every plan put forward by us, by the bipartisan simpson-bowles commission they referenced or any other respected grume -- group to reduce the national debt. they were not for any of them. why? because they are not prepared to do anything about the debt if it contained even one dollar -- i am not exaggerating -- even one dollar or one cent in new taxes for millionaires. folks, that's not courage. and that...

Turned the corner but we have more work to do. we are not there yet. at times, veering off script, using one of his favorite words, "literally," a few times. when the crowd boo'd in response to a comment about mitt romney. he stopped them and said, "no, i don't think he's a bad guy," which is a shift in tone from the campaign trail. talking to the crowd about how bin laden is dead and g.m. is alive. that's a motto he thinks his campaign should be running on. taking it to the republicans on midcare and debt, suggesting that the republicans rejected the simpson-bowles recommendation. there will ...

Much about how they cared so much about medicare. how much they wanted to preserve it. that's what they told you. well, let's look at hathey didn't tell you. what they didn't tell you is that the plan they have already put down on paper would immediately cut benefits from more than 30 million seniors already on medicare. what they didn't tell you -- what they didn't tell you is the plan they're proposing would cause medicare to go bankrupt by 2016. and what they really didn't tell you is, if you want to know, if you want to know, they are not for preserving medicare at all! they're for a new p...