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I think it would make a change hungry country -- >> that was rachel maddow and others discussing the upcoming election. joining me now is one of the co-hosts of msnbcs "the cycle." he writes for salon.com. good to have you here. as we talk about what we saw on "meet the press," voters acknowledge the economy is getting better. as we see the unemployment numbers go down and waiting for the friday jobs report coming out this friday, why do you think it doesn't resinate with the voters? >> it's been tough to figure out. on a certain level, they do recognize it. if you look at the polls, more peop...

Cycle" and senior writer for salon.com. steve, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> can you close an election on this kind of sell line about trust worthiness and integrity? it is no longer an ideological argument from the democrats. they're essentially saying, judge mitt romney for his character. >> i think it's an experiment. i don't think we know the answer. obviously we will on election day. because what mitt romney is attempting to pull off here is something i don't think we have really seen before in modern politics. this is a move to the middle on the cheap. it's com...

Grocery chains, in the city of detroit. you have to leave the city in order to get food, produce, and -- but there is a whole foods that is opening, but the majority of people can't afford that. >> that's really for the newcomers and all the young, new excited people coming to detroit which is wonderful, but we want to make sure the rest of the detroiters who have stuck with the city for all these years don't get left behind. >> and salon article from this year speaks to that. they were in the piece, they write what these dreams seldom include however are the almost unimaginable systemic probl...

The question is how do you navigate in that landscape and is obama capable of figuring that out and coming up with a new tactic. >> on that note, i think he's learned that to get legislation passed you don't take it to the republican party, you take it to the american public and sell it in the country and what he did on the payroll tax cut and perhaps if he is re-elected or gets anything done will be because he goes to the nation first. we have to leave it there. thank you to salon's joan walsh, her book "what's the matter with white people" is out now. coming up, vaguely defined and highly va...

Joy ann's points, when we talk about the war on women it's very clear that the men who are making these headlines have neither been raped or carry a child to term and really talking about things they don't know anything about but these are really important issues because the next administration is going to pick one to three supreme court justices and will, on the wrong side of this part of history have an opportunity to overturn roe v. wade. the issues and stakes are extremely high. i would direct your viewers to a piece that came out on salon.com that talks about what the health of the mother...