"outfront" tonight, mark hill, david fromm and reuben navarrete.he chances of mitt romney winning any of these groups would be slim? >> slim to none. >> slim to none. but he doesn't have to win. >> he doesn't. >> all he has to do is make some of these people in these various groups start thinking twice about whether or not barack obama has really helped them and made them feel like not going to vote this fall. >> right. he wants to help defrnlgize the base. he also needs to show independent voters he's not a radical wingnut who wants to alienate blake voters. >> do you think he made any headway? >> getting booed is not a good sign. >> that was part of it. he got applauded in other parts of it. for example, when he talked about chartered school, when he said this is a way of helping people, talking about taking on unions when they stand in the way of schools getting better -- >> the charter school thing are things that president obama has been ambivalent on. i don't think that will be a deciding factor. the stuff he did draw boos from were health ca

made him look unstatesmanly and alienated black voters. >> let's go to david fromm.u tweeted, if i were a political cynic, and you are, by the way, i'd wonder whether the romney campaign wanted to be booed at the naacp. explain yourself. >> mitt romney was on fox business channel this afternoon and said he expected to be booed. so they put things in there they knew were likely to draw a negative response and said a lot of things that could have elicited a positive response. black america has been hit hard by the grinding recession. though there is going to be a lot of emotional commitment to the president, to really go into what this recession has meant for black america, not only in terms of the catastrophe in the private economy, but the black middle class and professional class, heavily represented at the naacp, that visual you showed of mitt romney being booed is not a very nice visual. but there are also a lot of people in the republican base, people who are the people who like mitt romney least, who may be energized in their turn by that -- >> all right, all ri

. >> james carville joins me along with david fromme. i'm just a little confused. he made a big, with great fanfare announced that foreign trip to show he could be a great commander in chief. you'd think at least you'd talk about something you'd be doing. even if you weren't criticizing the president. talk about something positive you might do, right? >> you can talk about positive things. of course you must avoid criticizing the president. that's very important. i'm glad he did do that. mitt romney gave an interview which is appearing tomorrow, which does give more clarity on his foreign policy -- >> in israel. >> -- middle east. i think mitt romney is especially worried about getting drawn on the biggest foreign policy question at the moment which is also an economic question and that is the problem of the euro. that is a situation that is changing so fast that if you're a candidate for president you're very worried about saying things now that might bind you nine months from now in a completely different situation. >> james carville, i'm curious though, because

. >> well, it's not me, it's david fromme. i didn't interrupt you. please, don't interrupt me. he was purposefully antagonistic towards the naacp. the question becomes, you know, why was governor romney using the naacp as a prop to have a conversation or to prove a point with conservatives who still don't trust him. because clearly he wasn't there to give a conversation to try to reach out and gain more support among a civil rights conversation. >> that's absolutely false. >> he was there as a prop and he was antagonistic. towards the organization that -- >> absolutely false. >> let him finish and then you can talk. >> sure. but it's false. >> going to the point that john made, it's also from a strategic point untenable. i mean, if you look at these sort of these states, virginia, north carolina, ohio, florida, and you go out west to the nevada, new mexico. it's untenable what's going on whip the republican party, where the cnn poll, 63% of minorities are now breaking for obama. long term, it is suicide what republicans are doing. so what republicans are going to have to do sor