richard goodstein, a democratic strategist. great to see you. allison, want to start with you. this is the obama campaign second ad targeting the massachusetts lorecord. the romney camp says president obama will do anything to distract from his abysmal economic record. and despite that record, the fact that he thinks the private sector is doing fine. all right. so those numbers from the obama campaign, 47th in job creation, number one in debt. how do they turn that around to not be an abyss mal economic record? >> they put out the facts, thomas. governor romney brought his state from 50th to 30th. and when he left office, the unemployment rate in massachusetts was near 4.5%. compare that to 8.2% that we have with president obama. and he also took -- closed a $3 billion budget shortfall and left a billion rainy day fund for the people of massachusetts. he has a successful record and the economy in this term as governor of massachusetts. and it's one he will continue and bring to the white house with his pro growth policy and pro growth plan to create jobs and instill confidence

hairy baker and richard goodstein and amt lex sorts.y have a way of spinning any outcome in their favor. for president obama does a court ruling against his law just bump up on a campaign trail, or is this a political gut punch to what is the biggest legislative accomplishment? >> if the court strikes down the entire law, which we all think is unlikely, that's a blow to president obama, his supporters of, discouraged by this. mitt romney would attack him on the competence of how to push through a law unconstitutional. that's dangerous for him. i don't think that will happen. you see the court strike down parts of it and keep parts in place. that's a big thing for the president. we saw today he won on the arizona law, so if the president has won this week, it's not a catastrophic week to have two things struck down. he's in a good position for thursday ritd now. >> alice you remember from the primaries mitt romney doesn't want to talk about health care. he says repeal and replace and he moves on. as we talk about the fact and remind ever

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richard goodstein, a democratic strategist. great to see you. allison, want to start with you.ssachusetts