Cenk Uygur and BuzzFeed and Current TV contributor Michael Hastings discuss the impact of Romney’s “47 percent” comment and also the person who taped and then released it. “In the days following, Romney lost about 4 points of approval, just because of that one video,” says Hastings, who was covering President Obama’s re-election campaign. He adds, “Everyone on the Obama campaign believed after that video that they had this thing locked up.”
And what about the person who secretly taped the video? Cenk wonders whether it was appropriate for the staffer to release the videotape, and Hastings says, “I think more people should do stuff like this all the time. I think it would help for transparency. … It also calls into question this pay-for-access system that we have in terms of how these campaigns are run.”
