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The latino electorate looks different than the latino population. those who show up and vote look and act like me, born in america and parents born in america. bill: are you better off than you were four years ago, is your family situation getting better? 35% say better, 32% say it's worse. >> i think that number is remarkable when you look at a president who has been in for four years where he has 75% of that same policing they would support him even though people are being cautiously optimistic about where we are headed now. with a split congress, getting into those districts, having those c...

Cuts. but republicans are looking to up the ante. they say it's not enough and want to carve $100 billion in spending. you're going to straighten them out for us. put them on full screen. let's tackle the first one. the debt is the other party's fault. >> the fact is it's every politicians fault in washington. the republicans ran up the debt by something like $6 trillion under george bush. that was under republican congress. and in a split congress, barack obama will have added about $4.8 trillion. plenty of blame to go around.

In front of the international club of job outsourcers, how is this a solution? is there something the republicans understand about getting businesses going and having an agreement here between the president and business that maybe liberals don't get? >> i think so. in that context. and i think that comment is part of the poisonous environment that makes up an entrepreneur or job creator hesitate. but i would say it's not just what we do on the tax side of the equation. it's also what we do on the regulatory side of the equation. that combination of taxes, whether they're too high or too low, t...

Whether or not we listen to the grassroots activists who empowered this congress to act to make the cuts necessary to move the economy forward. we can't even agree on that right now. i don't see the hard choices being maed realistically. it's going to take a nominee who is willing to risk it all. to make that, that first step, i think. >> it looks like you want to jump in there, david. >> i do. i think the test for the president's budget and the seriousness for both republicans and democrats, is whether they're prepared to reform the entitlement programs. >> right. >> starting with medicare, m...

In the rebuilding of america. >> but super elites don't vote for the president in 2012 and they don't vote for congress and it's congress where there's the real concern about what to do. robert, what does obama need to do to help the middle class, to help the middle class weather this recovery and enjoy this recovery? >> well the super elites may not vote, but the super elites fund campaign and that's why they have so much disproportionate influence. i have to take exception to theyed that it's always the middle class that gets whacked. the middle class was getting whacked long before the rece...