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The romney campaign, very much on the defense about the governor's taxes. something tells me this is not the last time we'll talk about governor romney's taxes, unfortunately. >> someone made an argument on the sunday morning shows, and tax return stuff, more of an obsession, an obsession of folks like us, not so much john q. six pack. i saved you for the last. your must read is my favorite. what is it, why? >> a fantastic piece on the front page of "the washington," the frankous nature of these parties. they are widely divergent internally, it looks at the ways political parties in some ways ...

Republicans and conservatives said great, that's what we want. the reason that's so is because it's the base on both sides saying that. both bases see hay to be made out of ryan. the question is how does he play to the middle. >> what i want to know, and i ask you guys this and sam, you know, i have said this before, what is the plan? mitt romney has not seemed to have had a plan for any of the major sort of planks and pieces of his candidacy, whether that's the tax return stuff or the well stuff or religion stuff. he went out there and nominated paul ryan or chose paul ryan to be his vice pre...

Know, i like her personally. i know her a little bit and i like her personally but i will say she's always been known as a dealmaker. it would be interesting to see what those returns say but i really believe that the whole clamor for mitt romney's tax returns has died down. people are getting tired of it. they're looking at all of the things that our president has not released and i think frankly that's starting to come to the floor and they're saying wait a minute, we better not keep pushing this tax return stuff because all of a sudden, the president will have to release things that he does...

For obama. look, democrats usually win this question, but if you're romney, you can't be losing it by double digits. yes, he's winning the economy question but not by double digits so he either needs to win the economy question by double digits or close that gap here. so look, he's got -- he is winning the default argument right now against the president. he is not yet winning an argument on behalf of mitt romney yet. that's a finite thing to explain. >> chris, do you think this shows some impact of the hammering from the obama campaign on mitt romney in terms of the type of business experienc...

Far worse than the attacks for not releasing them. that's where we are today. >> keith boykin, how do you think this tax return stuff plays out? >> i think it's going to get bigger than just tax returns. people are going to ask other questions about his finances. how do you get $101 million in an i.r.a., for example, if you have a limit of $5,000 or $6,000 you can contribute? that doesn't make any sense. people are going to ask questions about why are you listed as ceo and managing director of bain for three years and you say you're not doing anything but you're profiting from it getting $100,...