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Q: Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said on Sunday that the attention on Clint Eastwood's bizarre address Thursday at the Republican National Convention was a commentary of the vacuousness of Mitt Romney's own speech. 
  
 Indeed, Emanuel, now the mayor of Chicago, said Romney's remarks were "vacuous." 
  
 "The fact is, coming out of the convention, they didn't want a debate about Clint Eastwood. They wanted it about Mitt Romney's ideas... The reason they're [talking about Eastwood] is that Mitt Romney's speech was so devoid and vacuous of any ideas," Emanuel said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "That moment in time is a commentary on Romney's speech." 
  
 Further, Emanuel noted there were no memorable lines from the speech. 
  
 There was no "'read my lips,' or 'for those who work hard and play by the rules,' as Bill Clinton said in '92. Anything that said here's my philosophy, a 'compassionate conservative' philosophy, there was nothing there. So the space post-convention is about Clint Eastwood or the fact that Paul Ryan's speech was factually challenged," Emanuel said. 
  
 Romney's campaign wasn't buying the criticism. 
  
 “Today," said spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg, "President Obama’s own surrogates admitted that we are not better off than we were four years ago. As the Chief of Staff in an administration whose failed policies have now left 23 million Americans struggling for work, Rahm Emanuel has no credibility when it comes to discussing the state of our economy or the state of our country.” 
  
 Read more about: Rahm Emanuel, Mitt Romney, Chicago Mayor, Republican National Convention 2012 ||||| Seeking to downplay comparisons between President Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 election campaigns, Obama senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs said Sunday that the enthusiasm of the last campaign should not be expected. 
  
 "Nobody is sitting up here saying this is 2008," Gibbs said on CNN's "State of the Union," when asked about dwindling enthusiasm among Latinos and other key constituencies, as well as close "horse-race" numbers. 
  
 "What has happened since the election in 2008 and right now, again, is this huge economic calamity caused by a series of bad decisions that were made before the president ever got there," he added. 
  
 Gibbs continued to say that he thought that the race between Obama and Romney would be "close." 
  
 "This election was always going to be close, because we live in a closely divided country I remind people all of the time that just four years ago everyone was talking about the president's landslide, and he got 53 percent of the vote," Gibbs said. "Let's understand that we live in a very closely divided electorate, and we have for quite some time and this election was quite frankly always going to be close, but it is an important fundamental choice about where we go from here." 
  
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 Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod called the Republican convention a "terrible failure" on Sunday and said the event had failed to help Mitt Romney in the polls. 
  
 Speaking on Fox News, Axelrod said he "saw no movement" for Romney in the polls during the GOP convention. "I don't really see any bounce," he said. 
  
 Axelrod added that the GOP's "snarky attacks and bromides for the base" in Tampa had put Democrats in a strong position to begin their own convention this week in Charlotte, N.C. 
  
 "I think the race is exactly where it was before they walked in [to Tampa], and now it's our turn," he said. 
  
 A Reuters/Ipsos poll out Saturday found that President Obama has reclaimed a narrow lead from Romney, who enjoyed a two-point advantage for a short period last week. 
  
 But on Sunday, a different poll showed Romney with the expected convention bounce. Conservative polling outlet Rasmussen found the GOP nominee with a four-point lead over Obama, who he trailed by two points before the convention. The poll showed Romney leading the president with 48 percent support to 44. 
  
  
  
  
  
 Axelrod said that GOP convention was short on details about the party's plans to reform Medicare and cut taxes. 
  
  
  
  
  
 "They can talk about being bold, they can talk about facing up to these problems, but they don't do it," he said of Republicans. "All Mitt Romney does is talk about Barack Obama." 
  
 The senior campaign strategist also sought to paint the GOP as a party that is weakened by internal divisions and unhappy with its nominee. 
  
 "We don't have the problems the other party has," he said. "We're not divided. We don't have to worry about what people are saying on the side." 
  
 Echoing the rest of Obama's team, Axelrod downplayed expectations and predicted that the race with Romney would be close. 
  
 "We have a lead in this race, it's a slight lead," Axelrod said. "We have slight leads in battleground states. We expected a close race, and we're going to have a close race." 
  
 This story was updated at 12:21 p.m. ||||| Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich slammed GOP strategist Karl Rove on Sunday for joking about Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin's murder. 
  
 "Karl Rove said some terrible things...for which he has apologized, which should remind us, people make mistakes," the unsuccessful presidential contender said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "In the age of Gabby Giffords, it is not a joke to say that a member of Congress ought to get murdered." 
  
 Gingrich said that Rove's mistake should prompt sympathy for Todd Akin, who made controversial comments about rape and abortion, since everyone makes missteps. 
  
 "Todd Akin was a choice for people in Missouri, and Todd Akin has publicly apologized," Gingrich said. 
  
 Read more about: Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Todd Aikin ||||| Self-deportation for illegal immigrants. No rape or incest exception for abortions. 
  
 With stances such as these, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told Chris Wallace of "Fox News Sunday," the Republican Party espouses "a platform from another century, maybe even two." 
  
 (Also on POLITICO: Democrats pan Republicans for perceived fibbing) 
  
 Added Villaraigosa, who's also serving as chairman of the Democratic National Convention: "It looks like the platform of 1812." 
  
 Regarding the Republicans plans for the economy, "Reagan would be turning in his grave" to hear some of the proposals coming from party leaders, particularly as it pertains to budget cuts. 
  
 Read more about: Republican Party, Jobs, Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace, Antonio Villaraigosa, James Madison ||||| President Barack Obama's surrogates were intent on Sunday on painting Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as a pair of pinocchios. 
  
 Summing up the Republican National Convention, Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter told CBS "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer that "it was a week of personal attacks, empty platitudes" where "lying is a virtue." 
  
 So, are Democrats saying Republicans are a "bunch of liars," Schieffer asked. 
  
 "I didn't say that," Cutter replied. "I heard a lot of things that weren't true this week." 
  
 Earlier on ABC's "This Week," Obama White House adviser David Plouffe argued that the Romney-Ryan ticket's health care policy proposals are “built on a foundation of absolute lies." 
  
 Read more about: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, David Plouffe, Paul Ryan, Face The Nation, Bob Schieffer, Stephanie Cutter |||||
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As the Republicans came off their convention week with very little bounce, Democrats descended on the Sunday talk shows today to drum up their own soiree in Charlotte, which kicks off Tuesday. "I think the race is exactly where it was before they walked in [to Tampa], and now it's our turn," David Axelrod told Fox News, according to the Hill. "We have a lead in this race, it's a slight lead. We expected a close race, and we're going to have a close race." Other familiar Democrat themes today included lies and liars, notes Politico, with Obama 2012 deputy Stephanie Cutter telling CBS that the RNC amounted to "a week of personal attacks, empty platitudes" in which "lying was a virtue. I heard a lot of things that weren't true this week." Elsewhere on your pre-DNC Sunday dial, as per Politico: Rahm Emanuel on Mitt Romney's RNC speech: "Coming out of the convention, they didn't want a debate about Clint Eastwood. They wanted it about Mitt Romney's ideas. The reason they're (talking about Eastwood) is that Mitt Romney's speech was so devoid and vacuous of any ideas." Robert Gibbs on the enthusiasm gap this time around: "Nobody is sitting up here saying this is 2008. What has happened since the election in 2008 and right now, again, is this huge economic calamity caused by a series of bad decisions that were made before the president ever got there." Antonio Villaraigosa on the GOP platform: "It looks like the platform of 1812. Reagan would be turning in his grave." Newt Gingrich on Karl Rove's joke about murdering Todd Akin: "Rove said some terrible things ... for which he has apologized, which should remind us, people make mistakes. In the age of Gabby Giffords, it is not a joke to say that a member of Congress ought to get murdered."