also so companies can bring money back into the united stateses. >> y even embraced a flat x buthere are some conservatives who say that is the wrong way to go that we should beewarding people by giving them some big tax breaks. where does the flat tax makes sense? >> good question. i was talkining about the tax on businees. insofar as iividual taxes are concerned, i think it would be unfair to change thtax system like for home mortgage interest deduction or charitable contributions. i am advocating the choice of a flat tax spending. hong kong has done something similar to this and they found most people migrated to the flat tax. let the taxpayer decide. whether they want to stay witith this complicated system or go to a more simpler one. >> you remain behind in this race according to all the recent polls? why are you losing? >> the decision wille made and about a month fr now. the world is controlled by those who show up. i and endorsed by realtors in virginia as does the fraternal order of the police. most folks know my record and my opponent's. i amondent anybody who uses of elect

. >> look, the very fact that the president of the united stateses had to utter a term like that is a example of how small the campaign has been. this has not been a campaign it's obama campaign has not been one about the future. it hasn't been talking about what they would do the next four years to rebuild the economy. instead they've reduced themselveses to very small attacks. you say romnesia, which is silly for want president of the united states, the leader of the free world to gip uttering. talk about binders, talk about big bird. all of that is indicative of a candidate that doesn't have a vision for the future. governor romney on the other hand-- >> schieffer: it's governor romney who brought up binders and big bird. >> they're trying to make that the central argument in the last 16 days is really very small for their campaign and they've conducted themselves like this over the last six months. i think a lot of people right now, we have 23 million people struggling to find work. we have a national debt that's over $16 trillion. $4 trillion-- this president has added trillion-d

flames and at of this extremism and nothing has been done about it, what is the president of the united stateseally supposedto do about all ofhe extremists. it is ridiculous. >> charlie -- >> rose: yes, al. >> charlie, i am just going to say when talking about effective line going to martha's point the reason the bayonets and horses line was good, not only a nice line but it had some substance to it, when romney says one of the areas he tried to differentiate himself was on defense spending, smallest navy since 1916 that is true but in 1916 of course we didn't have nimitz class nuclear aircraft carrier that can reach targets 1,0 miles away that is more relevant so i think that is why that line work. i don't think this debate changes the basic dynamics but to go to tina's earlier point, mitt romney did do a rope a dope and in denver i thought that barack obama did a rope a dope, what they both ignored in the history of rope a dope is, muhammad ali pummelled the heck out of somebody for eight round before he started rope a doping, these guys did not. >> rose: let me go to chuck todd did you see this

virtually throughout the whole united statesment -- united states. this chart shows the states that will have changes in their delegations. the bottom line is that there are currently 190 latinos and latinas serving in the statehouses and state assemblies. we project there'll be a net gain of 27 new latinos in those houses for a new total of 217 latino state legislators in the state's lower houses. .. and what the competitive race between senator obama and senator quentin, sending that down to the very last primary much of it on hillary clinton's strength of her latino support. so, they have an impact both in the primary and also in november. we expect to see them in 2010 latinos continue to get a significant impact on the american political landscape. in 2010 the latino republican candidates did exceedingly well increasing their numbers in the united states house from three to seven and also having latinos electives republican latinos in the united states senate and marco rubio from florida and the two republican governors of nevada and martinez in