they think obama didn't study. they think obama didn't care enough. they think obama whatever. as long as romney shows up as he shows up last night, they don't have a chance. >> what do you think, juan? >> you know what? obama definitely has to be more energetic. he's got to take -- present fire and fight and bring the argument to mr. romney. >> he needs to be the old obama from that 2007 speech. >> yeah. >> put some lies out there. >> bill maher and chris rock said they want the old obama back. >> you said that earlier, i believe. the georgetown university professor, michael eric bison said that was the whole problem, that barak obama didn't want to come off as angry. and those videos and he blamed it on fox news and sean hannity for airing it, ruined the mojo for the president. >> we might have found out why president obama was having such a hard time last night. can you roll the video of the last one we have lined up? >> keeping me indoors all the time. it's a drag. [ laughter ] they're making me do my home homework. >> waaa. making me do my homework. i don't know. look, if

obama called out and president obama pushed back on. watch. >> the president began what i call an apology tour, going to the various nations in the middle east and criticizing america. >> nothing governor romney said is true. starting with this notion of me apologizing. this has been probably the biggest whopper that has been told during the course of this campaign. >> mr. president, the reason i call it an "apology tour" is because you went to the middle east and you flew to egypt, and to saudi arabia, and to turkey and iraq. you skipped israel, by the way, our closest friend in the region. you went to the other nations. they noticed you skipped israel. >> eric: they noticed. israel noticed and so did all of our enemies. >> bob: he was in israel doing a fundraiser, the fact he did stop and talked to one u.s. troop in afghanistan -- >> dana: there is only one candidate who has taken foreign money in this campaign. >> bob: excuse me. >> dana: not romney. >> bob: romney had a fundraiser in jerusalem. >> eric: stay on president obama. >> b

barack obama would win based upon the superior effort of the obama campaign at this point and in turning out early voters. >> evan ? >> obama, but we still have a way to go. >> nina? >> i hate doing this, but obama because of the crown them. >> colby? >> national tracking polls has of them close, but the key battleground states, obama still holds a lead. >> what is the ground game, mark? >> the organized effort over months to identify and not only support -- identified not only supporters, but leaners, and persuade them on how one by one retail basis. weeks before election day, you know who your voters are. you want to be sure you get the vote. >> in many of the battle ground states, obama has more field offices. >> it is down to micromanaging, micro-issuing these of votes. interestingly, the republicans had a better ground game in 2004, and a lot of people think that is why and they won that close election. it sort of fell into disrepair today are building it back up now, but i don't think they are anywhere near where obama is yet. >> there is another question. which candidate has the m

if you ask any of the obama supporters, they want the old obama. they want the fiery obama. to them, the modern obama is van halen with sammy maggar. they want van halen with roth. when he gets re-elected we'll see the old obama, fiery obama. they should be happy to see this. >> eric: this begs the question forget about the money, the man could stand on the podium and do that, point the finger and say where is your stafford money, knowing very well stafford money is on its way, anyway, where is you yours. what is he going to tell the american people? is he going to say -- forget the last four years knowing very well, the last four years are on his watch. >> dana: this video reminded me of things we've seen before. long way from hope and change. i don't think it will matter. the president of the united states. the questions are as andrea pointed out, 8.1% unemploymen unemployment. government increase increase under his watch. you could name any promise but you can't find one that he fulfilled. it could give some people pause. maybe he did want something else or didn't know wh

connecticut goes from obama to lean obama. significantly, north carolina goes from tossup to lean romney. so at the end of this, we're left with romney with 159 solid electoral votes to 194 for obama. each one was between 47 lean votes and romney's case 43. obama. 237 to 206 with 95 electoral votes up for grabs. >> bob: well, that is good math. who says debates don't matter? i said debates don't matter. i'm beginning to re-calibrate. i said they mattered in 1960 and 1980. this first debate may well have structurally changed the race. so i tend to agree with that. there are three states we ought to pay attention to today. try to go through the lean states, the tossup states. one of them is florida. the other is virginia. the third one is ohio. romney needs to win all three of those states. but he can get away with winning two of three states. we don't a map, do we? >> brian: we do! >> bob: thank you. in florida, romney has seen a surge. it happened in a couple of places. in tampa area, that is important. middle part of the stat

two benefiting president obama. new hampshire went from tossup to lean obama. new mexico went from lean obama to obama. one change in status benefiting romney. went from lean obama to tossup. romney gained in colorado, ohio, virginia, and wisconsin, all battleground states. but no change in the status in those. missouri and nevada became stronger for obama. no change in status for those. >> bret: of that, joe. what do you see as important? >> all the states move to romney even though they haven't changed status matter. but ohio is the real interesting thing, because when you look at it, both karl and i threw out a marist poll that happened some time ago with eight-point lead for obama. we threw that out. moving as a tossup today. that would be very significant. when you look at a trend line of ohio, though, throughout the whole campaign, romney has never actually crossed in the lead there in the average of real clear politics average of the trend line. is that moving? because right now the line if you look at them are starting to go closer together again like a

obama has to plan on the obama campaign and improving. the problem solving, the fixer, the guy who is excited with ideas is a very attractive candidate. if they can make the spotlight of the campaign on that with this new interest they're going to generate, they're going to do pretty well. the obama guys will try to use paid advertising and other things to move the campaign into other stuff. but i think we now have a different more competitive race and we'll see what happens. >> rose: katty. >> before i freeze out here today, i'm blaming the cold. the obama campaign has spent millions of dollars successfully making mitt romney unacceptable as a choice to the american public. tonight mitt romney made himself acceptable in the course of a 9 0-minute debate. >> rose: thank you, you're cold. >> it gets better and better. i think we saw people in each party say well obviously our candidate barely has a tongue, we don't know if they'll be able to. but it was skewed and what the obama team had an opportunity to do with a good debate was sort of

one had mitt romney up, one president obama up. it's a vital state and the the candidates are going to have to fight for it hard. president obama held his 17th ohio campaign rally this evening. today is the last day of voter registration in the buckeye state and the president pushed that message. >> ohio, ooism asking you for your vote. if you're willing to stand with me and work with me, knock on some doors and make some phone calls for me, we'll win franklin county again. we'll win ohio again. we'll win this election again. we'll finish what we started and we'll remind the world why the united states of america is the greatest nation on earth. >> mitt romney knows his chances of winning the presidency are slim without ohio, regardless of what the national polls say. romney scheduled multiple events in the state of ohio over the next several days as well as events in other swing states. he was in iowa today making the hard sell for voters to abandon president obama. >> i want to ask you for a commitment. that's for you to find one

when president obama couldn't. first, my energy independence policy means more than three million new jobs. many othem in manufacturing. mytax reform plan to lower rates for the middle class and for small business creates seven million more. and expanding trade, cracking down on china, and improving job training takes us to over 12 million new jobs. i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message. x welcome back to our virginia special. joining us is political editor in chief john harris. first, about the national polls fts.the ships it too early for obama to start freaking out? to ensure that, probably it is. to be realistic, they should probably take a deep breath and that two things are true. mitt romney strong debate r has helpedin denve but it is not at all clear this has changed the less than a month out. there are another 10-12 other election which the will hinge. there has not been reliable , it is theave seen internal from the campaign that we hear about. hunch is that the race has tightened up in virginia. >>

face so the chairman of the joint chiefs was obama, the secretary of state was obama. it sort of captured -- obama has this fantasy, he didn't kill bin laden. the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s did. he didn't find bin laden. an enormous intelligence effort over a long period did. if you read the remarkable recent book "the finish" by mark bowden who earlier had done "blackhawk down" you get a sense of the effort that went into tracking down and killing bin laden. i don't take anything away from the president for making the decision to do it but i think it would be pretty hard for a president not to have decided to go after bin laden once they found hi >> yes, but let's be honest. if it was the other way round and mitt romney was the incumbent president and he had taken out bin laden, he would be talking about nothing else. it's all politics, isn't it, at the end of the day. let's get down to nitty-gritty here. let's move on to ohio. because it's getting increasingly clear it's going to be a very, very tight race. may all come down to ohio. how important is this whole issue of the

obama did not do his best. we will see what happens in the next couple of debate, but he did not do his best by any standard of a definition. i was falling would ever be as saying on twitter. chris rock doing so bad that he was waiting before the debate was over for obama to bend down and pull up osama bin laden's skull. that was his trump card, if you will. i raise that because you mentioned osama bin laden. there was a time in this country's past when, if the sitting president had held up osama bin laden's skull, he probably could have gone away with anything. does president obama at this point get any credit for killing enemy number one? >> i would say that he gets responsibility and accountability. the joke was funny, but the reality is that what amounted what was a cold-blooded assassination when there was no resistance from the principal target, when there was no effort to fight back, according to the soldiers carrying out the mission, to assassinate him on the spot, dispose of the body at sea is not some

>> i've not heard one word from the obama campaign, no. >> greta: why do you think the obama campaign did that, that they were careless, in their rush to get it out, or do you think they were deliberately trying to make congressman paul ryan back? >> i would agree with the second statement, that they were trying to make him look bad. i've never attended a rally. you know, i asked the question -- i think they thought that they were going to -- you know, maybe thought small town, small community, nobody was pick up on us doing this spin. i really thought that they thought that they could pull one over on the american people, but i was paying attention. i wasn't going to let them get away with it. i'm tired of all the spin. i decided to call them -- i decided to call the obama campaign out. >> greta: and indeed you have. one last question, because i'm from the state of wisconsin. why where you wearing a packer jacket? >> my dad was from wisconsin, and my mom was from chicago. so i've always had, you know, split parents, and i had the green bay packer jacket. i'm, like, if i'm going to a

we heard barack obama do it. certainly. the hope and change thing is now benefiting the republicans this time. >> it transcended to their signage. >> more than election census, this is about the proper scope and actual confidence of governmentment. it will come down to a basic feeling that people have, who understands government better? >> i think that's fair. if you had a huge hurricane that affect eed sometimes -- >> for example. >> either positive or negative. they can get really angry that the response wasn't really big. or >> one other potential surprise this week, that final unemployment report coming out on friday. you're an economist. looking at the numbers right now, what are you expecting to see and how much difference will it make. >> we have seen over the last year and a half, one month's numbers don't seem to crack through the shell that much. that said, we had -- probably artificially too optimistic number last time, some rebound. but at the same time, the economy has been improving. i think most people are ex

in terms of knocking down the obama's claims, and he correctly pointed out that the obama has cut energy production on federal lands, and he scored. >> it's interesting to me that the romney campaign has this large national theme, the economy isn't working for you, here's how we can fix it. obama has a microstrategy, like they're trying to run 10 governors races, so he emerges as mr. coal for southeast ohio. >> yes. >> and western virginia, microtargeting strategies. it's an interesting distinction. >> it is an interesting distinction. i want to know where is the demand for details on how he will achieve all the things he's promising. they want details on romney's tax codes. how will the president create jobs? another achievement of romney was that he exposed the president's lack of leadership. he says, where's the plan to fix entitlements? that's a theme he needs to hit on in the next debates in the days to come. >> when we come back, the president may have been more spirited in this week's debate, but not more specific. when will he play out his agenda for the next four years? >> i thi

president, have you looked at your pension. >> obama: i don't look at my pension. it's not big as yours, it doesn't take me long. >> eliot: and romney struggled over the strike that killed four americans in ben gas did i. >> obama: the day after the attack i stood in the rose garden and told the american people of the world that we were going to find out exactly what happened. that this was an act of day after the attack that it was an act of terror? it was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you're saying? >> obama: please proceed governor. >> romney: i want to make sure that we have that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the event in bengahzi an act of terror. >> he did call it an act of terror. >> obama: could you say that louder, candy. >> he did call it an act of color. >> eliot: this is what he said after the attacks of bengahzi. >> no acts of terror will shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. >> eliot: this morning both running mates clai

obama people tried to tried to run this as a referendum on romney but now it's the reverse. right exactly i mean the whole strategy of the obama team has been to portray met romney as an unacceptable choice in various ways to portray him as an extremely rich man who doesn't understand ordinary people's problems to portray a must someone who has on the acceptably unacceptable tax policies that really favor the rich excessively that strategy came undone to a certain extent last night and i think that romney did really play his hand pretty strongly in terms of both protesting that he did have a concern for so-called ordinary people and also suggesting that regular romney that his tax plan was more fair or less favoring the wealthy although let's talk about just because if exactly ny a let me ask you it was a political malpractise for obama not to mention the forty seven percent. political malpractise really strip it strange it was very surprising it was very very surprising that has been the big issue for the past couple of weeks in this campaign and it played perfectly into th

and obama on these policies because now they're obama's policies so for romney to get up there with the republican party as a whole to come out of him with this false eight year that he's weak on terror i mean that's like saying bush is weak on terror i mean in the word terrorism is beating yeah but what it is it's really sad that there is a new opportunity to actually challenge obama on his whole small and i've said that you know obama's pretty much a neo con when it comes to foreign policy so of course there are they are going to agree with everything that these foreign policy debates are really is a charade robbi it's sad that americans are not presented an actual choice and changing the course of american foreign policy in the imperialism we're setting up all of the world thank you so much for coming on giving your take robbie marne media roots dot org thanks for having me. all right guys if you've been watching the show you know i talk a lot about obama's drone wars kill lists and other covert tactics being used to combat terrorism well if those aren't scary enough let me present t

. >> sean: obama campaign's top advisor dismisses questions about the obama coverup. >> you are saying we shouldn't discuss this. >> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld is here and he is demanding answers. all of that plus the very latest polling data from each of the key battleground states. we are 22 days away from election day, three weeks from tomorrow. you will be voting. and hannity starts right here, right now. >> sean: we are on the eve of the second presidential debate of the 2012 presidential season. tonight, the republican nominee mitt romney continues to lead president barack obama in the latest national polls. now, according to the rasmussen daily presidential tracking survey, if the election were held today, governor romney would be victorious, 49% to 48%. interestingly enough, romney has led or tied the incumbent the past 9 out of 10 days breaking what had been a 16-day winning streak for the president. this result is mirror dollars in the newest american research group survey which also has romney defeating obama this one 48% to 47%. later tonight we have in-depth

obama never believed that. he believes there ragged revolution is transient and obama revolution is here to stay. you'll never catch him as saying the era of big government is over. he believes it is not. to the era it is fading it is so that to it has arrived. as he read said he leaves he thinks history favors an expansive state even though the faster it expands the quicker the crisis comes fiscally. he tells you this in his speeches and books. we were not elected justice solve recessionary economic downturn. we were elected to change history. the reason why he spent his first two years pursuing obamacare he could not figure out how to do more on the economy but would risk the election to do something permanent to expand state and realize more of liberalism was kohl's. to that extent he is doing with the marxist call heightening the contradiction. in a certain way bidding for the crisis to come and excel rate. i thain because he will find a way to compromise and his second term. but the game he is playing in i

for obama or for romney. but hamilton county could go either way and might decide it all. >> that was nbc's kelly o'donnell reporting on the key battleground state of ohio and in hamilton county and around the state, obama is pushing an agenda for jobs and the middle class in the suburbs. but it could actually hurt the suburban middle class. we have stanley kurtz with us. your message is obama is in fact going to rob the suburbs to pay the city. in brief, stanley, how does he do that as president? >> well, larry, there's a practice called regional tax base sharing that obama would like to spread to every metropolitan region in the country. this is where all the suburbs in a metropolitan area have to kick in a big chunk of their tax money and that gets redistributed to cities. ohio has a lot of folks that would like to see that practice come to the state. >> cleveland, right? maybe even hamilton county, which is cincinnati which has its urban problems. >> that's right. but they're centered around the northeast

. >> the obama campaign is leaving nothing to chance. >> president barack obama. >> former president bill clinton? are we better off? you bet we are. if obama wins it it may be because a former president saved his presidency. >> i am clinton. as overlord, all will kneel before me and obey my commands. end communication. >>> with just 22 days until election and 23 hours until the second presidential debate, a new "washington post" poll shows the number of undecided voters shrinking. nearly two-thirds say they do not need any more information before election day, and barely one in eight is undecided or says there is a chance he or she could change the vote. while president obama spent today in debate prep in virginia, michelle obama campaigned in ohio, where the latest poll of likely voters shows the president ahead by five points. >> this morning, let me tell you what i did. the i cast my ballot early for barack obama. it felt so good right now, my absentee ballot is on its way to my hometown, chicago, illinois, and that means we are one vote closer to re-electing my husband and movin

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obama's on the left. we'll go live to our correspondents at both rallies shortly and jump in at any point in either candidate is making some news. >>> new polling as well. late numbers just coming in tonight and new endorsements including colin powell weighing in today. >>> also tonight, a very different look inside the campaign from presidential historian doug brinkley who got an opportunity to watch his tore being made as well as what president obama called mitt romney. it rhymes with, well, show-bidder. it's causing outrage tonight. this, on the other hand, there may be reason for the romney campaign to cheer. the breaking news. the abc news/"washington post" tracking poll now has mitt romney ahead by three points and more crucially, hitting the 50% mark for the first time. in our own cnn poll of polls, governor romney currently enjoys a one-point lead, 48-47. as you no doubt know, the race will boil down to a few key states and tonight, we also have new numbers from the nbc/"wall street journal" poll

florida and washington dc, president obama and governor romney faced each other in the third and final debate. many saw this as the defining moment for each of the candidate before americans make their decision on election day november 6th, next two weeks will be devoted to mobilizing voters in key battleground states, ohio in particular shaping up to be an election decider, although as cbs news poll this morning showed the president maintains an advantage there, governor romney is gaining, tonight in boca raton, florida the focus was on foreign policy, both candidate also pressed on their domestic policy talking points. >> governor romney i am glad that you recognize that al qaeda is a threat, because a few month ago when asked was is the biggest geo political face facing america you said russia. >> russia indicated is a geo political foe. >> excuse me, as the geo political foe and i said in the same paragraph i said and iran is the greatest national security threat we face. russia does continue to battle us in the u.n. time and time again, i have clear eyes on, this i am not going to

>> who wins ohio wins. >> president obama. >> obama. >> obama can't keep a job when so many people have lost paeirs. >> .

maybe obama saw this because the significance of the last 3 1/2 years in the obama presidency is there was never cooperation or rarely cooperation. no or very few bipartisan agreements. the only time they did something was when they brought joe biden in to negotiate with the republicans. so maybe obama sensed that. but i don't know -- it's worthy to investigate. >> sean: yeah. one theory i have, i want to ask you one more question about your theory. i would argue, $6 trilon in debt, very hard to explain away. i would argue that, you know when 2012 economically is worse than 2011, which was worse than 2010, unemployment in 2012, fewer jobs in this year than last year and the year before. things are trending down. obviously, that's troubling for the president in terms of trying to defend it. but back to your theory, if he was so bad that there something else going on, that could be troubling in and of itself. you know, we need presidents that are strong. you know, bill clinton, as critical as i was during monica lewinsky, you have to hand it to him, his ability to compartmentalize, do hi

it made its point and barak obama just let it pass. he didn't do anything to resist it. >> bret: how is the obama campaign going to bounce back or planning on bouncing back here? >> i think they're planning on doing a better job next time. and in terms of chris christie was saying this could change the entire narrative, that's an overstatement. one debate is not going to change the entire narrative. it keeps the race going. i think that a lot of people going in thought that romney was sort of on the ropes and a lot of obama supporters wanted a knockout punch and they didn't get it. but the next debate is a town hall format, which is going to i think, be good for the president and he's somebody who has some sort of psychological issue where he has to always be behind. so did he this with hillary and mccain of the he always has to be behind. i would expect he'll come back the next time probably a lot stronger. >> bret: dr. charles krauthammer, any comments? >> i'm still licensed, but i don't practice on the air. i play a physician on the

president obama or mitt romney? >> i would rather be obama. for one thing, you know, it's interesting how we kind of talk about this as sort of like almost theater. and the reality is, i think, you know, mitt romney kind of did his own town hall meeting on videotape before. and we made the 47% comment. and i think that is sort of the backdrop for mitt romney. if there's more pressure on him now to be relatable. whereas i think obama actually is relatable. >> but you say that's the backdrop for mitt romney. maybe in some democrats' minds. but i think for the 60 million people who watched the last presidential debate, that's probably more in their mind, that mitt romney, than what was in that video from a long time ago. >> you know, i think the last debate was all about mitt romney. the expectations were on him. you know, people didn't think he would do particularly well. the whole game was riding on his performance. people were saying, if he doesn't do well, it's over. this time it's all about president obama. it's all about his performance. he

here's my point, snoop dogg supporting obama. made such a big deal, rush limbaugh says about sandra fluke. is the president ever going to talk about the civility of his supporters, keep taking money from the likes? >> no. >> sean: by the way, you're going on with that jackass this weekend, bill maher. >> please come if you're in the l.a. >> sean: the one conservative in the audience. good luck. why? >> because i have to fly to l.a. a liberal to argue with me about my book. that's why. >> sean: okay. by the end of the show you will be a racist, you know. >> you will be. that's it, you are. >> sean: where is president civility? where is he? what he's doing now. his problem with his debate was he's got a campaign out there accusing romney of being a murderer, you/:ef know,w$ a fe, he doesn't bring up thisog char. then he's back on#; the k going in front of a town hall audience. the question finally going to come, is the president taking responsibility for his campaign or not? this is the man -- remember, the reason the voters who

he does not have the same red line on president obama that president obama does. mr. romney would draw his own red line far before president obama's red line. then a few days after that, on september 17th, same deal again. here's mitt romney at a latino issues presidential candidates forum, saying that the guy who wrote the arizona's papers, please, law, he's never met the guy. no idea. he doesn't know why he keeps say that guy is his immigrations adviser. seriously, mitt romney has never met kris kobach? no, not really. his campaign later coming out and telling cnn, never mind what mitt romney just said, he has met the guy who wrote the papers, please, law, kris kobach does advise the campaign. then a few days after that on september 25th, they went and did it again. here's mitt romney conceding one of his most frequent attacks on president obama. this was mitt romney at a rally that day admitting that president obama has not raised taxes while he has been in office. seriously? mitt romney is dropping that argument? he doesn't think president obama has raised taxes?

president obama had no answer. mitt romney said president obama you talk about a few tax breaks for the oil and gas industry. you have given much more tax breaks to the alternative energy energy and you have nothing to show for it. president obama just looked at him. at the end of the day barack obama couldn't engage on substance last night. the facts aren't going to get any better between thousand and the next two debates. the alternative energy market is not going to start working in the next two weeks. the obama economic policies aren't going to be working in the effect two weeks. it wasn't about style. it's about substance and obama not being able to stand on his own record. that record is not going to change between now and the next debate. martha: thank you for being with us today. bill: president obama telling the american people there is one pledge he will always keep. >> four years ago i said i'm not a perfect man and i'm no won't be a perfect president. that's probably a promise governor romney thinks i h

obama upset some people who don't like him. they ever say be his optimal description shows is he incentive to the four murders in america. i disagree. i think mr. obama was playing off mr. stewart's description and the remark was in context. however, there is a strange detachment in play here. from the very beginning, president obama was not fully engaged. after he he learned of the assassinations, he went to vegas to campaign. we now know the cia told the obama administration early on what happened in benghazi was an organized terror attack. yet the president would not hold a press conference and say that. instead, as u.n. ambassador and his press spokesperson openly mislead the public. why? it makes no sense. and even now mr. obama remains nebulous, foggy about the entire situation. so here's the deal. hold the press conference, mr. president. lay everything out there. if mr. obama fails to do that over the weekend, mitt romney has a huge opportunity with the foreign policy debate coming up on monday. we need answers. romney

and his name was barack obama. and i go by barry so that i don't have to explain my name all the time, and go into a long explanation of myself." and so i said, "well, if your name is barack obama, i'm going to call you barack obama because i like that name. >> narrator: in the school's literary magazine, barry now identified himself as barack obama. >> i think the word "barack" is absolutely essential to that identity of being, "i am a man. i am a man with a future. i need to be prepared for whatever that is going to be. i don't know the answers yet. but i sure as heck know i won't get there if i hang out and take things for granted and just be kind of a smart guy." >> narrator: but barack was restless at occidental. he decided it was time to leave. he would transfer to columbia university in new york city. >> one day he told me he was transferring to columbia. he had, i think, a need for a more expansive environment, more stimulating urban environment to grow intellectually. so that was his choice. >> he needed t

go to obama first. listen to him. >> we certainly feel profoundly for all the families whose lives have been up-ended. and are going to be going through some very tough times over the next several days. and perhaps several weeks and months. the most important message i have for them is that america is with you. we are standing behind you. we are going to do everything we can. to help you get back on your feet. >> dana: mitt romney attended a storm release event in ohio. listen to him. >> we have heavy hearts as you know, with the suffering going on and major part of our country. a lot of people hurting this morning. they were hurting last night. the storm goes on. i have had a chance to speak with some of the governors and the effected areas and they have talked about a lot of people having hard times. i appreciate the fact that people here in dayton got up this morning, some went to the grocery store, i see and purchased things that knows families will need. and -- things that these families will need.

that obama answered. i'm a socialist somehow. the stock market is doubled. we got ourselves through the worst recession since the great depression and mitt romney is the kind of reformer i applaud for massachusetts, only governor enacted a universal health care plab to reach progressive goals that everyone can accept. that, if he didn't run away from all of that, that's something i can endorse. the idea that obama by adopting romney's reform for massachusetts and anyone knows that was the model -- >> but, matt, the case you just made is not for barack obama as i reformer but as an establish elitist. he has preserved everything -- >> these are the same buzz words. you walk into the situation that he did, mitt romney, who very disingenuously like things on the detroit bailout, did the right thing and mitt romney knows and kind of lied through his teeth on this last night. there was no debtor in possession financing if you did it in the private sector. everyone in larry's audience understands what that means

did obama choose to go first? that was a mistake. >> bill: they flipped a coin as lehrer explained. >> i was drifting off there while you were talking. >> bill: they did actually flip a coin. that wasn't a joke. >> romney brought the mma. >> the mma being. >> the mixed martial arts. the steel caged death match and obama brought the lpga and unfortunately we could have had to throw it it admah nil la. >> ladies professional golf association. >> could have had a great fight. >> bill: steel match when obama could have crushed the larynx he didn't and he pulled back. >> to his credit. >> to his credit? >> there are two more debates. >> bill: yeah, so? >> so. >> bill: mitt has got to be consistent. >> if i have that advantage with stewart i may go in. >> it was his an investor sear, bill. >> i need advice from you guys. how pathetic is this asking gutfeld for advice on the big rumble on saturday night. we'll have that in a moment and the factor will be back right after these announcements. sleep train's inventory clear

way to go, obama. florida says on her impression of romney, "romney is the boss i always hated." >> a really good, effective way to drive home the way he looked last night. >> bill: somebody said he looks like the boss that fired you. >> that drives home the point who he is. >> bill: according to the clock ok according to the clock president obama spoke for 19:50 romney 17:17. >> i did see romney had more words. he got to say more in less time. so, you know. >> he's very efficient. >> depends on which side you want to foul on. you could complain about this either way. >> bill: he might have said more, but ended up saying less. a lot of it, i thought several answers, he didn't know, i think where he was going and he just -- it was like everything he remembered from debate prep, he threw against the wall. some things didn't even connect. >> he just started talking about two parent families and marriages, and keeping families strong and it was so bizarre just out of nowhere. i don't know how that connecte

. >> from the very beginning the obama campaigned four years and met with all of the first actors in the first year he would sit down with chavez and kim jung il, with castro, and with president ahdinejad of iran. >> nothing governor romney just said is true. starting with this notion of me apologizing. >> this has been probably the biggest whopper that has been told during the c campaign. >> joining me in new york is tina brown, editor in chief of the daily beast. peep. very disappointing. >> talking about europe and stuff -- >> rose: you can say it affects the u.s. economy and the economic recovery or threatens the u.s. economy if they can't get it right. >> there is also the one moment in which the president, romney kept saying, look, you can attk me but that is not a propol for the future, did that score? what was the best line that romney had during the evening? anybody? >> you can't attack me was clearly his go to line. >> rose: right. >> if the president attacked, other than that, i can't think of any real standout lines that governor romney had. i don't think he wanted the zi

gas protest tax obama stunt. if you get there at 7:30 in the morning at the exxon station, you pay 1.84 a gallon, which is the price much gas per gallon when he filled. >> why are they doing that? >> pay attention to the fact that gas prices have doubled under the administration. >> the obama supporters that you talked to, did they -- who do they hold accountable for the skyrocketing gas prices. opec, congress, rich bankers, the oil companies, ceos. a lot of the other people blame everybody. i think what the guy hit it right on the head. he said a lot of people in congress. they don't drive cars. they get picked up in town cars. they don't have to whip out their credit card and see the sticker shock there hasn't been outcry from either party. the republicans have a tendency to be pro business. they are not going to attack the oil companies. the democrats want wind and green energy. >> right. the one guy had the prius. >> bill: there are actually people who want the gas prices to go to $10 a gallon so we wouldn't

i voted for barack obama. >> extraordinary new obama campaign ad with lena dunham talking about why she supports the president. it's getting a lot of attention as you can imagine, coming just 12 days before the election. battleground america tonight let's bring in my all-star panel. marjorie clifton, kristia freeland and republican strategist kelly ann cuomo. welcome to you all. i can see you all watching that obviously for the first time in utter shock, bordering on horror, ladies. kristia, let me start with you. you don't have a visible horse in the ring here. when you see the sexualization of the polling booth, as a woman, do you feel comfortable with that? >> first of all, i don't have a horse in the ring or dog in the fight because i'm canadian. >> i'm british. we can't be blamed for whatever happens. >> there you go. i think i'm just too old and not hip enough to really understand -- >> come on. >> -- that kind of an ad. seriously. seriously. >> i think you're too smart to be so bamboozled by it. the more we talk about it in this campaign, the more insulting it is to women. they c