they gotta be clean. they can be a little mean, but not too much. thanks for watching the factor this evening. i'm bill o'reilly. please, always remember, the spin stops right here because we are definitely looking out fur. for you. >> tonightr. >> sean: tonighta "hannity," you will hear from the president in his very own words to the promised he's failed to keep and the standards he has set for himself and been unable to keep. much has changed since he accepted the nomination in 2008. and the romney campaign is seeking to remind voters in charlotte, north carolina, about those changes at the site of the 2012 convention. we'll be there. let's take a look. >> you see, we democrats have a

very different measure what what constitutes progress, whether you can pay the mortgage, whether you can put money away at the end of the month to watch your child receive a college diploma. >> we measure progress by how many people can find a job that pace the mortgage... [sound effects]

>> sean: now, we measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage, as candidate obama suggested, voters will likely take the president up on that proposition. joining me now, mitt romney. governor, welcome back. thanks for being here. >> thanks, sean. good to be with you, again you? >> know, i look at this ad and the ads the rnc has been putting out, i have to be honest, i think the most effective thing -- and i think this may be the reason that david axel rod wants to talk about dogs -- which i will get to in a success. the most effective thing is obama's own words, promises that are not fulfilled. explain why that ad is, in your mind, powerful. >> well, you are going to have the democratic national convention here where i am today in charlotte, north carolina. when he was in denver, they said they measure progress by whether more people have jobs to pay for a mortgage. he was not able to turn around

the economy. fewer people have jobs and there have been record number of home foreclosures. he said progress would be whether people had rising or falling incomes. under this president, there have been falling incomes. median househomed income is down. he said they would measure new startups and new startups have fallen 100,000 a year by this president. so by his own measures, he has failed and i think he will be replaced in 2012. >> sean: it seems in his campaign, and david axel rod took to twitter today. i asked you this a long time ago, many years ago, you had a family vacigs and you put the dog kennel on top of the car and your dog's name was shanas and they tried to make this an issue today and they tried to make sandra fluke an issue. do you think this is by design? >> of course it's by designful

but in the final analysis, the people of america are going to choose a president based on jobs, not dogs. and the president's failed on the measure that people care most about, which is a strong economy, creating good jobs and rising incomes, where people can have homes that they have confidence in that they can pay the mortgage. look, he has failed on these frontses. it's been 3 1/2 years. the blame game has gone on a long time and that's wound down because he has been there so long. now he is trying to divert attention from the economy and it won't work. the american people want someone who understands the economy, knows how it create jobs, can stop the massive growth of debt that we have in this country and can create a brighter future for the current generation and it is coming generations. >> sean: when you look at statistic and maybe this is why they want to talk about dogs in this cam pairngs he has now the worst economic record since any president since jimmy carter. the worst jobs record. he will end his first four years

in office and i don't think he will have a second, without having created a net single job, we will have job losses, rising unemployment, anemic growth at best. $5 trillion, we passed this mark in terms of debt. he called george bush unpatriotic for $4 trillion in debt in 8 years. what is your reaction to the debt number? >> lthe debt number is alarming. and gives you great concern, of course, because we are, we are moving toward the greek-type numbers. my guess is at the democratic convention, he will not be appearing in front of columns like in denver. he won't want to re-mind people of greece. this administration is adding debt at an alarming debt and that has the potential to send our economy into a tailspin, at some point, but it certainly has the very real risk of causing the next generation not to be able to realize the american dream because of the debt and the interest they will be paying off in their lifetimes.

>> sean: do you want to deal with the dog story? hua dog named shanas. after this came out, it's like the sandra fluke controversy and the comments that were made about your wife. tell bus your dog. and what did you think the revelation that it went viral. in the president's book, he admitted eating dog when he was growing up in indonesia and grasshoppers -- and i didn't make that up. >> sean, i am going to talk about job and it is economy. >> sean: okay. >> and getting america working again. i am going to talk about the debt and the measures that people care about -- [chuckles] -- all of these extremist stories -- i don't think -- one thing i did want to ask you about, the comments that were made about your wife and this gets personal. we showed a tape of candidate obama saying, hey, my wife is out of bounds. that crosses a line. he even said that was low. what do you make of this person,

close to the dnc, making the comments about your wife, that she never worked a day in your life. does that anger you? >> i think it's extraordinarily unknowledgeable and unfortunate. i think she recognizes it. she apologized for t. every mom is a working mom. people make different choices in their life. those who choose to raise kids are working. a lot of parents are working at home, taking care of kids or going to work at night or going to school at night. it's tough being a mom, whether you are working outside the home or not. i think people in this country understand that. again, let's respect people for the choices they make and recognize the struggles that people v. my wife's struggles have not been so much economic as they have been healthwise. she's a champion, in my view. she's my hero. she has done the most important thing that's ever been done in my life, helped to raise our

five sons and make terrific young men out of them and i owe her everything. >> sean: the president has been really, really hammering the class warfare message, chiwould anticipate will grow stronger as the campaign goes on. he has mentioned it at every stop. it doesn't seem to be working. we have four new polls out. one has you up by 5. that's gallup. rasmussen has you up by 3, fox has you up by 2. but by all accounts, there has never been a race with an incumbent president with these numbers, this low, that has gone on to win the presidency. so i assume you are energized by the numbers. >> well, it's better than the the -- the alternative of course. a lot will happen between now and november 6. but i believe if we are able to continue to talk about the president's record and the fact that he is over his head and swimming in the wrong direction

that he is not created the jobs he said he would create. he has not held unemployment below 8%. it's been above 8% 38 straight months. a record number of foreclosures have occurred and he's done that, borrowing trillions of dollars that has passed on to the next generation and threatens even this one. if we talk about those thing, i think he's in real trouble. what he is trying to do is to try to find any way to divert from his record, to divert the attention of the voting public. i think americans are too smart for that. >> sean: what is the big difference -- the president, interestingrily, had a very different tone in 2008 and 2008, but he didn't have a record. the one thing he can't run on is the answer to this question -- are you better off than you were four years ago? can you afford $5 trillion more in new american debt, if he had another term? so as guforward, how do you battle the class war forethat

seems to be a strategy, the negativity that i think is fairly predictable at this point? >> you know, i think the american people recognize that we are one nation under god. this is the greatest nation in the history of the earth, not because we have battled fellow americans. but instead, we have come together at critical times timed made the sacrifices necessary to preserve our liberty. so a campaign based on attacks, a campaign based on demonizing one another, that's not going to be successful. this country is going to be successful by pulling together, recognizing that we have some common challenges and working together to overcome those things. the president's a nice guy. but we just can't afford him for four more years. we have to get back to machine who know what is it takes to get america strong. i spent my life in the private sector and i want to use my experience to get america working again. >> sean: hopefully, we will see you out in the campaign trail in the days, weeks and months

ahead. thanks for being with us. >> thanks. >> sean: the very question that we are asking tonight -- are you better off today than you were in 2008? text us 36288. why did president obama pull the plug on his budget deal with speaker boehner in july? >> the speaker says he knows and david axel rod, bringing up david axel rod, bringing up doggate, did

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>> the fact is, we have an agreement and two days later, the president decided he wanted $400 billion of more revenue, which was nefght $400 billion debt. >> but you came to an agreement that was to your mind, acceptable. >> until he lost his courage. >> lost his courage? >> lost his courage. >> couldn't face what? >> why did he blow the deal up? >> what did he tell you? >> he needed more revenue. he needed more revenue. he lost his courage. >> sean: that was speaker of the house, john boehner, saying why he thinks his deal with the president fell apart. what it means for entitlement programs in the country and in an election year, touching

entitlements, the third rail of politics, could be, would be catastrophic. re-election efforts of stumping fiscal stability. speaker boehner says it's not anything new itch the president checked out last labor day. all he has done is campaign full time in the last six months. he has not been engaged at all. there has been no effort at trying to work with democrats and republicans to address this issue -- at all. it's shameful. >> sean: 1086 days have passed since the senater senate pushed through a deal and there is no indication that a budget proposal is coming soon. according to the budget chair, we shouldn't expect any movement from the democrats until after the election. oh, really? here with reaction, sandra smith and monica crowley. maybe that's why david axel rod and we'll get into this, wants to talk about mitt romney's

trip, many years ago on top of the car -- what do you call the dog cage thing? >> the kennel. >> sean: even that backfired. obama revealed that he sampled dogs and grasshoppers. >> here we are with the dog wars. the war on women, the dog wars. this obama campaign wants to talk about everything except what matters to the american people. that's the state of the u.s. economy, all the damage that this president has done in the last 3 1/2 years from unemployment to anemic economic growth to socialized medicine and record-breaking deficit and debt. they will change the subject to every irrelevant thing. >> sean: i agree with you. i think when axel rod went out here and it backfired. look, there is a part of this, we will get into the details about doggate and the jokes. some of them are the funniest things viread in my life. do you think this is designed,

sandra, as a distraction? this is -- i am -- i want to know your opinion? >> absolutely. i think there is no better example of that than yesterday when he stood before the american people and said, we are going to bank on going after the evil speculators for our new energy policy, with oil at triple-digit prices and folks paying record-high gas prices and you are going to say, that's your energy policy? this is looking for a scapegoat. drawing the attention away from the failed policies that have not only helped but have in fact, hurt this economy. listen to john boehner there, i don't know that there is a whole lot that anybody can disagree with. let's enter discussion. let's not enter threats without a discussion. >> sean: you know what is frustrating eye am going on get to doggate. but the media goes along with this. you have the media -- they want to suck up to obama.

they are not going to bring up that he has the worst economic record since jimmy carter and every objective, discernible measure. but the media wants to suck up to obam a. so they don't bring up all of this information so they are not as popular, why fox news is more popular. >> >> it is worse than sucking up to the president. the media have been vested in protecting him, not just advancing his agenda, but protecting him. they have done this since 2007. it's shameful. especially when we have so many grave problems in this country. you cannot get this country back on track, without economic growth from tax reform and from serious entitlement reform and cutting spending. yet the president and his team are talking about mitt romney with the dog on his roof and god know what is else and making up bogus wars on women. >> sean: i agree. but the sandra fluke thing

backfired. frankly, in my opinion, you know, what is worse -- that you put a kennel on top of the car or that you sampled dog? that went further. nobody knew in november of '11, the president passed a bill where we can butcher horses for food. so they brought it up. they advanced it. and now all of a sudden. >> we are talking about it! instead of talk about this real issues. >> sean: romney's unemployment. >> in that same interview -- and going back to your point that the media's not asking the real questions. i will give you one. right now, corporations are sitting on record amount of cash-- they don't want to invest it. >> the stock prices are at record highs. they won't put it to work. but president obama wants to say how we are going to invest more. how about spurring investment from private capital? it's there. they don't want to-- we have the highest corporate tax rate in the entire

world as of a week ago. >> bingo. >> what you were talking about, the energy policy, listening to his despicable speech, demonizing speculator it's. >> sean: he said the same thing inn 2008, 2009. >> they are running away from the jimmy carter analogy-- we have a misery index. >> the ecose of jimmy carter's energy policy, which was america, put on a sweater. >> sean: if it's between $5 trillion in debt and the first downgrade in the country's history and talking about dogs -- i would choose the dogs. sthat's what i would do. we didn't get sucked in, did we? we stayed on the issues. i want an interview, he won't do. >> it that's where they are taking the conversation, which shows how out of touch they are. >> sean: they giveap interview every two years. for 2 years nobama's camp. >> fox news is asking the tough questions and have you local

reporters like larry conner going, dude, what are you doing here? american people are suffering. you are galavanting around. how do you answer it? [overlapping dialogue] >> sean: he is scouting out vacations in columbia now. he takes one every two months. that's a lot of golf time and a lot of basketball time. >> sean: i'm almost, i feel better when he's on vacation. >> so do i. >> sean: i can hang on to my wallet. >> not a far cry from the truth. >> sean: crew the fainting. team obama wants to reignite the energy from the 2008 campaign and they for deploying the first lady, comparing the fot jesus. that's causing a controversy. that and more later on "hannity." later, president obama's campaign has been hitting mitt romney hard about how they treated the family dog. but the president's own dog-related scandal has been dog-related scandal has been unearthed, coming up tonight

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>> now, the president's campaign team is attempting to reignite the obama media madness of 2008 and they are enlisting first lady, michelle obama, who attended a rally in tennessee yesterday, while speaking to supporters of her husband, she

use the a statement, very similar to a biblical verse telling the masses, quote, i'm going to be working so hard, we have an amazing story to tell. this president has brought us out of the dark and into the light. >> it sounds like the soaring rhetoric is back. cue the fainting, the anointed one is back. joining me with the reaction is michelle malkin and tam raholder is here. it's first peter, chapter 2, verse 9. gods has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. is this the same obama that was supposed to, you know slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet? that the same guy? are we back to that again? >> yeah, we are. it is not going to be too long before the mainstream media and the slavering sieveo --

sykofants are drooling. they will be in his glow, glo-'bama. but reality has smacked these people upside the head. and michelle obama can tell all the amazing stories she wants. but she won't be able to rewrite the sordid history of the last three years. >> sean: there seems to be here a disconnect. the president, by every measure -- do you think $5 tril globe debt -- you call $4 trillion in 8 years, unpatriotic and irresponsible, using a bank in fact chinasm we pass the $5 trillion in debt mark. do you think this deserves comparisons to jesus? >> well, i think that's a little bit of a stretch in your own right, sean. >> sean: what's a stretch? >> the stretch is that that the average person does not really

understand that this large, enormous debt that you continue to talk about? $5 trillion -- [overlapping dialogue] >> right. which is why -- which is because the republicans wanted to go to this war -- no, i'm sorry, two wars to find somebody-- wait a minute. obama campaigned on the good war, afa. when by the way, isn't going so well. so the question is i. by the way, i think we got bin laden under obama because president bush couldn't find him. >> sean: black sites and enhanced interrogations and. >> torturing people. torturing people. >> sean: that would be enhanced interrogation. you are wrong again. i don't want to get too deep in the weeds here. but this is simple. on every measure the president fails and on every account, those that are deeply, almost hypnotically entranced by obam athey go back to some excuse. there is always an excuse.

>> one of the main talking points is the ones that tam rajust invoked, which is that average people, ordinary people just don't understand. this is the same kind -- >> that's not what i said, michelle -- that's not what i said. the average person -- really, the average person is not excited about mitt romney. the average person knows that they're coming back to work, they are getting jobs. their foreclosure rates are down. there are things that people are seeing -- nobody understands $5 trillion! [overlapping dialogue] >> the thing that has changed between 2008 and 2012, we don't have to rely on barack and michelle obama and their story-tellers in the mainstream media and their operatives to set the tone and the storyline for this election. that's what underscores the victory that we have seen over

the last four years, on the right. conservatives online are not accepting these fables that have been shoved down our throat, the idea that obama brought us out of the light and has plunged us deeper into the sinkhole of debt. somehow obama has opened up washington, d.c. to make it as transpatient as possible when they have done all of these deals and subverted the rule of law, behind closed doors. that he is more likeable than any republican and he is a nice guy -- i hate hearing this from mitt romney. he has to get this talking point out of his mouth. he has dealt brutally with the right, with people like paul ryan and brave republican who is have been calling him to the carpet on all of the disgusting culture of corruption that has rained and that's the darkness that we have to get out of in november. >> sean: let me ask tam raone question -- but put the bin ladn

decision aside. i think it was a gutsy decision but i think he needed to support the intelligence-gathering methods that got us there. cite to me one area of success and the economy where we are better off than we were four years ago, before we go? >> unemployment -- no -- [overlapping dialogue] >> foreclosure rates are down -- stoop stop -- >> wait. i don't understand why you have me on the show and you don't have to like what i say, but everybody's talking about their conservative flowery talking points and-- excuse me. you can get as emotional as you want. unemployment was 7 owe 8% -- now it's 8.2%. >> right. are you going to go on that w. romney fact that all the women who los -- the people who lost their jobs were women?

that's all true -- >> no [overlapping dialogue] >> sean: you can't cite one success. you are wrong on both counts. i have to go. >> okay. >> sean: what is it? >> vinothing to say. have you to cut me off again. so just go on. >> sean: what is the one success that he has had? >> i told you, unemployment is down. >> sean: thank you. wrong again. it doesn't matter if you say it twice itch it's the sound of crickets chirping. >> sean: coming up next tdog fight erupts between romney and the obama campaigns over an unlikely story. our president has admitted to eating a dog. peter responds and much more, peter responds and much more, straight if you have copd like i do,

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we have all heard the story about how mitt romney, admitted that many years ago, his familiarly dog, shanas, made a vacation trip from boston to canada, in a kennel on the roof of the car, in an effort to distract america from the real issues, tomb team obama is hitting mitt romney on the treatment of his dog t. began with a tweet from david axel rod, saying, quote, how loving owners transport their dogs. showing this picture of president obama and his family dog beau, riding side by side from a car and it backfired when in obama's book, he admitted to eating dog meat in indonesia. away from the dinner table.

p.e.t.a. has released a statement and twitter is on fire. joining me with reaction to this dog fight, no pun intended. chris hahn and amy cramer. we met -- when, april 15, 2009 in atlanta. how many people did we have? >> we all had him there. >> sean: that was the first sign, where i said, wow i. we realized we weren't alone. >> sean: exactly. >> you have been an active organizing member. all right. what do you think of all of this? it seems like the sandra fluke thing. they think they are going to have a war on women. backfires. and now this case. >> it's a distraction of the real issues of this economy is out of control. the gas prices and our debt and deficit, $16 trillion in debt. we have gone in this presidential election psychele from talking about children's toys, dogs. i mean, have you clown parties in las vegas, now this prostitute thing in columbia.

it's -- you know, it's ridiculous. >> surely you are not going to comparity actions of a 6-year-old to the actions of an adult, when it comes to pets? >> sean: i can bring up another issue. president obama in something that was not really publicized in november, cybed a -- signed a bill that allowed the killing of horses for consumption -- butchering of horses -- >> he allowed for the consumption of horse meat-- wait a minute. >> when they had been slaughtered. >> sean: it was prevented. >> he allowed the slaughter, butchering of horses for consumption. the democrats want to make the issue about the treatment of animals, then that comes into play. but have you to admit tbackfires, if you go after mitt romney for how he transmits his dog and youate a dock. >> he ate a dog whether he was 6, when you were six you ate

what your dad put on your plate, right, sean? >> why are they talking about dogs? [overlapping dialogue] >> four times over the past four years, president obama has said about the price of oil and speculators, a year ago, april 21 in 2011-- we showed this last night. >> they haven't reported to the public. and they are talking about this again. this is ridiculous. >> sean, i will put this deal on the table. i will blame president obama for the gas prices, if in october when they come down, you both give him credit. i will look into the camera and say it's his fault -- because we both know it's not -- [overlapping dialogue] >> you want that deal? >> sean: that tells me, you are close to chuck schumer. that tells me that maybe, did he make a private deal with the saudis? >> this is what happens in the

oil market, when you switch from oil to summer, prices spike-- hang on a second. prices have more than doubled since he's president. and we have $5 trillion in debt. these are significant issues. there seems to be -- this is an uncanny, you know, series of distractions about super fluous, meaningless issues. axel rod was successful -- >> he blames it on the strait of hormuz. -- [overlapping dialogue] >> chris, let's look at the overall energy policy. the department of energy was created to get us offuf foreign oil in the 70s. we have plenty of natural resources here. governor palin talks about it all the time, natural gas, coal -- >> marginal decline in the price-- you're wrong!

-- excuse me when george bush opened up oil dru drilling in july of '08, it came down, by the time president obama came into office, it was $1.80. >> if we give bush credit for anything-- i suspect that you know something going on behind the scenes. i don't trust you. i don't trust you, i don't trust you or chuck schumer. >> you trust me and you like me and ch chuck "i have inside information" -- come on! > we have a video where senar harry reid is complaining that the bush administration blackballed vegas because it was a party town, but he is bragging that he got the obama administration to put vegas back on the list. and larry kick is here. >> sean: larry king? >> he's talking about dick

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manager, jacques degraff. the reverend is back, the co-host of "the five." she is furious with me. i saw beckel had the jar after the incident. can we tell the audience what just happened? >> the poll said americans are better off than they were -- during the break, he lawrved the football into my stomach. >> sean: i thought it was her. she is wearing the same color and it's dark. i would never hit you with a football. >> i am going to have to get over this-- how many times i broke lights in the studio that i have to pay for? >> it still hurts. what do you think of the poll? >> first, i wish we had somebody reaganesque to carry that message to the public. that would be wonderful. not surprising, i thought it was low. i was surprise tuesday wasn't a full 98, 99% people saying, i am

not better off. i don't know who is. anecdoteally, i can't think of anyone-- i know you are going to support the president. you are a democrat. fair enough. but at this point in april of the year of an election, for an umcum cumbent, the president's losing in 3 polls and one's even in the fourth pole. the numbers are horrible for him. it's april, number 1, as you say. but i mean, there are numbers of polls that are coming out. with romney down 70-30 in the latino population and particularly electoral states that they are in, that's a troubling number that any reasonable politicallal observer. >> sean: there has never been an incumbent president, 1980, 84, all the years who has been this

low and won. >> he has a real challenge. but voters think he's likeable. republicans just have to talk about the record. but it's a record, sean, that the media is failing to report. they failed to ask him where's the energy plan that he promised? where's getting us off of mitted-east oil? it wasn't just immigration reform. it was a list of things he didn't agree on. yoap one american that said, we are better off, looking at the gsa scandal and the solyndra scandal. and he says, i'm headed to the gulf course. >> it's a media conspiracy that people don't know they are in a bad situation -- >> people know. >> why isn't that reflect in the polls? s? >> it's under reported. one thing we are doing, day by day, slowly but surely on this program. i see the rnc, we have been playing their ads and now the romney campaign, these words of

obama -- him in his own words with the tone, the promise, the rhetoric to the results and you see failure. i don't think of one measure where wee he has been successful. that's his biggest problem. >> we have the video archive to call himself out. the regular media's not going to do this. if i can't fix this in three years, i have been a one-term president. there is an avalanche of things like that. we need to not get caught in the dog scandal. i wouldn't be surprised if they weren't behind that-- it's like sandra fluke, it backfired. they think they got mitt romney on the dog thing and the dog lovers are going to be mad. but president admits, he ate dog. >> they have to talk about dogs and birth control and these issues because it's a distraction. they don't want us focused on the economy. >> sean: i have to take a break. >> whoa, whoa, whoa.

watch where you throw that thing. >> sean: i'm telling bob beckel to be mad at you tomorrow. >> i didn't even curs wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8.

>> sean: we continue with our great american pafnl we pass the $5 trillion.

lifestyles of the rich & famous. he's a conservative. having lived under socialism and its failure. >> what obama is proposing... you have to cut right down do it, it is socialism. it is so ugly and evil, it doesn't work. it's never worked. but then there is another group of people who think that the money should be taken away from the go-getters and the do-gooders because they are not going do it and they can't do it and they won't do t. for as long as you have a president whipping up this racial war and this economic divide, which he's doing quietly. but some of us see through it, you begin to realize that level the playing field is truly socialism. >> sean: what do you think of that? >> it's totally true. i speak as somebody who has family in greece. sean, you cannot imagine. >> sean: you have fam flee

greece? >> i do. >> sean: they are bankrupt? >> not my family, thank god. stores are closed. they're empty. people are angry. but the government -- it's the same thing. they overspent. we are much bigger, so the catastrophe for our kids and our grandkids and for us will be much greatener greece. it's a dire, sad, sad situation. >> when the republican party would have you believe that barack obama ran up the american debt unilaterally-- who ran up the debt in 5 years? >> the house has been-- no, no, no -- for 2 years. he had nancy pelosi -- democrats. >> but when push came to shove to address the american debt ---- excuse me. they made fun of paul ryan. >> let the automatic cuts-- wait a minute. stop. >> they blinked. >> sean: you are doing the same thing. blaming. this was obama's budgets,

obama's deficits, obama's hel care and stim scplus $5 trillion in debt. stop blaming other people. >> he inherited a mess-- he didn't inherit $ trillion. >> he was met with obstructionism. >> sean: two years he had the house and senate i. the american public is aware that he has been met with obstructionism. >> sean: no. he is not. >> it's a great story that the administration wants the american people to be aware of. but it's not true. >> why isn't romney ahead by a landslide-- he's winning. he's picking up -- [overlapping dialogue] >> new polls have been picking up steam in the swing states. >> the green energy programs like solyndra, they have been a failure -- >> solyndra is a rogue firm. but that doesn't the policy is a failure-- sure, it does. >> the firm faile