ron brownstein uses this divide. populist versus managers. talk it over with us and we're joined by a man plugged into what the right thinks of he's each of these prospects. eric eric son. so populists versus the managers. and when you stack them all up, you have mitt romney as the top manager. he was a ceo. and then you have sarah palin. she's the ultimate populist. is it a substance issue or a style issue? >> i think it's more a style and tone than substance but there is obviously some substance there as well. and largely, you're talking about a difference in style. mitt romney is the clearest example of this but mitch daniels, their economic competence. they are there. it's their resume, their agenda, and their record. they are selling much more cultural affinity, a posture towards elites and towards washington, a tone of rebellion and rejection that is much more anti-elite whereas the managers spring from the elite and each of them fundamentally swing to a republican party which is roughly balanced equally in size between a traditional su

ron brownstein is critical of that prospect of stimulus. deal, the bush tax cuts, even though the median income and number of americans with jobs are lower today than when the tax cuts were originally signed in 2001. almost unprecedented decade long record of futility. >> be careful with that. the context before the president came out with this deal was a cycle of dysfunction in which democrats are putting forward reasonable ideas like a three-month extension of unemployment, defeated. extending the middle class part of the bush tax cuts. defeat. the republicans are also arguing about the bush tax cuts. what the president was able to do in this negotiation was expand the board beyond just the bush tax cuts. the important stuff in this, in addition to preserving the tax cuts for middle class, are the oba tax cuts. you'veot incentives for education, a new payroll tax cut for 155 million workers, earned income tax credit, investment inceives that are new, these are things which i think help the economy and all i would say to mr. brownstn who i

ron brownstein today, thank you. take care. >>> for more on the explosions in rome, italy, and the top head loons, betty nguyen at the news desk. good morning. >> good morning. we do have breaking new this is morning. two mail bombs exploded in italy's capital. both sent to embassies in rome. two people have been injured. cbs news correspondent alan pizzi on the phone from rome. when's the latest? >> reporter: the first parcel at noon local time opened by a 53-year-old employee and exploded, seriously injured one of his hands and burned and cut the other. he was taken to the hospital. italian police cordoned off the area said the device what they called had of a low potential but it was still prettiletal for the man that opened it up. three hours later, chilean embassy not far from the swiss embassy in rome, and that went off injuring another employee there and not particularly seriously. the italian foreign minister called the attack on the swiss a deplorable act of violence and said that italy is in sol dare with t

. >> your colleague ron brownstein writes in the cover story of the national journal is the populist channel, culturally conservative, the managers connect more easily with college educated republicans who tend to be more socially moderate and very concerned about the economy and the parallels, sarah pailen versus mitt romney. >> it's a terrific piece. ron is a friend and we wrote a book together and he is one of the smartest political reporters in this town. he is particularly good as this piece shows at looking through the demographics of presidential politics. what he has discovered is that within the republican party, there is a potential schism or likely schism between sort of upscale republicans and middle-class or downscale republicans, and that as the republican party has broadened out over the last 20 years, that schism has become more evident and mitt romney and sarah palin typify the two poles of that in their styles and approaches and their lakely voter support groups. >> let me ask you about speaker nancy pelosi. she will be the democratic leader in the next congress. a