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Oct 18, 2012

decrease as the years went on in the romney administration. that's actually a trend that we have seen, you know, throughout that administration and others. it's something we're working on strategically to respond to that. >> all right. executive director of the massachusetts women's political caucus, also on the executive board that put together that binder that governor romney was alluding to. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >>> president obama may be planning to play hardball on the fiscal cliff. a new report in today's washington post says president is prepared to veto legislation to block year-end tax hikes and spending cuts. that's unless republicans cave on his request to raise taxes for the wealthiest americans. kristen welker joins us from the white house. good morning to you. this whole thing is really dependent on how the election turns out, certainly. what is the president planning to do here? >> reporter: hey, good morning, richard. my sources are telling me that you are correct. president obama does plan to veto any legislation that does not allow the bush era tax c

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CNN Newsroom

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Oct 17, 2012

for equal work, romney, the only thing he says is when he's 50 years old, he heard there was a problem and he wants to figure out ways for moms to get home on time to cook dinner. that is not the right answer to that question. i'm sorry. the right answer to that question is, america's government should be a partner to america's mothers to make sure by law people can -- >> let's move along. alex, quick response. >> i think i've begun to figure out who vince is going to vote for. i thought a lot of women in america saw a debate tonight where two high school jocks were -- didn't like each other very much, and i'm not sure they're going to be turned on by this debate. as much as i love the first debate, i thought this one was less. obama was angry. he had daggers in his eyes for mitt romney all night long. his pitch went up as this debate started, he was -- >> did you see love in mitt romney'size for preside izeyes obama? >> i think mitt romney was not as strong as president obama was who was a little more in control, but i think mitt romney was much more pleasant, someone you would have i

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MSNBC Special Coverage

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Oct 16, 2012

was that study was looking over ten years, not four, and the study also assumed that romney's tax plan would be fully paid for on the front end and the economy would be at full unemployment, we would be full of jobs, when the tax plan was put into place. that is not likely in a romney first term. the romney campaign also says 3 million of the jobs will be energy remitted. they cited this study from citigroup, but that study covers eight years, not the four romney is promising for his results, and the study wasn't evaluating any of mr. romney's policies at all. it was actually looking at current trends and current policies, which is to say president obama's policies. finally, the romney campaign says we get 2 million jobs if china would just stop violating our intellectual property rights, that would be great, but no one seriously thinks any u.s. president can make that happen, just by sort of cracking down on china. so when you ask the romney campaign to back up the claim of 12 million jobs over four years, it turns out what they really mean is 7 million jobs over ten years of an economy tha

FOXNEWSW - Your World With Neil Cavuto

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Your World With Neil Cavuto

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Oct 16, 2012

in debt now, same venue, four years apart. how does one mitt romney play to tonight? how does president obama handle and defend where and what he said back then tonight? we are joined by our guest. we do not lose the tape, that is the thing. we hang on to the tapes. what do you think? >>guest: that is right. president obama, back when he was a candidate had the advantage of being the candidate from the other party out of power and could run as a change candidate at a time of economic turmoil which is what he was doing saying look what your party d i will be the change. now, four years later he cannot do that. mitt romney can, he can say, look, you said you would fix the debt problem, you said you would fix the economy, four years later all you offer is the same policy, i will be that change. that is the advantage that he can use this time. >>neil: in a venue like this do you get an opportunity? if someone asks you a question from the studio audience among the 80 supposedly undecided folks, and do they take it on their word they are undecided? i suspect there is the possibility for plant

KRCB - Presidential Debate

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KRCB
Presidential Debate

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Oct 16, 2012

, governor romney, as a 20-year-old college student all i hear from professors, neighbors and others is that when i graduate i'll have little chance to get employment. what can you say to reassure me, but more importantly my parents that i will be able to sufficiently support myself after i graduate. >> romney: thank you, jeremy. i apprecia your question. thank you for being here this evening and to all of those from nassau county who have come, thank you for your time. thank you to hofstra university and candy crowley for organizing and leading this event. thank you, mr. president, also for being part of this debate. your question is one that's being asked by college kids all over this country. i was in pennsylvania with someone who just graduated. this was in philadelphia. she said, i got my degree. i can't find a job. i've got three part-time jobs. they're just barely enough to pay for my food and pay for an aparent. i can't begin to p ba m student loans so what we have to do is two things. we have to make sure we make it easier for kids to afford college and also make sure when t

KQED - Presidential Debate

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KQED
Presidential Debate

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Oct 16, 2012

we're going to do in the next four years >> romney: but that's not what you've done in the last four years. that's the problem. in the last four years you cut permits and licenses on federal land and federal waters in half >> obama: not true, governor romney >> romney: how much did you cut them >> obama: we have producedded more oil >> romney: how much did you cut licenses and permits >> obama: governor romney, here's what we did. there were a whole bunch... >> romney: i had a question. the question was how much did you cut them by? how much did you cut them by >> obama: i'm happy to answer the question >> romney: and it is obama: here's what happened romney: you had a whole bunch of oil companies who had leases on public lands that they weren't using. so what we said was, you can't just sit on this for 10, 20, 30 years. decide when you want to drill, when you want to produce. when it's most profitable for you. these are public lands. so if you want to drill on public lands, you use it or you lose it. so what we did was take away those leases and we are now reletting them so we can a

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PoliticsNation

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Oct 16, 2012

, indeed, plan to hold moderate mitt accountable for the positions governor romney took for the last year. before leaving for new york this morning, he seemed relaxed. >> how are you feeling about tonight? >> i feel fabulous. look at this beautiful day. >> what are you going to say? >> gorgeous. hope you enjoy the day. >> are you aware michelle voted for you yesterday? >> thank goodness. >> for governor romney, the question is, can the candidate, known for being out of touch, connect with people in the town hall setting? how will he handle a tougher president obama? they are big challenges for both. the tension is high. the stakes are even higher. joining us from hofstra university, the site of tonight's debate, is howard dean, former governor of vermont and former chairman of the democratic national committee. thanks for your time tonight, governor. >> thanks. nice to be here. this loud place tonight. they're ready for them. >> let me ask you, governor, you and i have been in debates together in 2004. president obama said he was too polite in the last debate. what are we going to see fro

KPIX - CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 11

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CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 11

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Oct 15, 2012

the federal budget $480 billion a year, roughly $5 trillion over ten years. romney and running mate paul ryan say they will offset those costs by reducing tax deductions. they won't say which ones ch that's to be worked out with congress. but they promise, they will only tar get the rich. >> deny those loopholes to higher-income tax players. >> translation? >> so we can lower tax rates across the board. >> reporter: in theory, there is plenty of money to be found in tax deductions, $1.1 trillion a year. but the most valuable deductions don't just benefit the rich. the tax deduction for mortgage interest and the tax-free contributions workers make to 401(k) pensions are all heavily used by both rich and middle class families and are all politically popular. >> the details matter. >> reporter: president of the committee for a responsible budget says until romney releases more details, it's not clear if he can pay for the tax cuts. >> the question is, can you do it without going into the middle class at all? we haven't seen the numbers either way to know whether for sure it's doable. >> reporter

KRON - KRON 4 News at 11

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KRON 4 News at 11

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Oct 15, 2012

bring his criticism of mitt romney to the debate hall. >> after running for more than a year, mitt romney is trying trying to convince you he was kidding. >> interesting 10 days or so. i had a debate a week ago, i enjoyed that. >> reporter: mitt romney said that last week. he is preparing in boston. while paul ryan rallies supporters in wisconsin and ohio. >> these debate are giving us the ability to cut through the clutter and give people a clear choice. >> reporter: mitt romney had 2 weeks to watch his post debate support grow. a poll finds mitt romney leading president obama by one point. in the debate, there is a new twist, they will talk with undecided voters, making it more important to win over the crowd. kron 4 news. >> you can watch the second presidential debate tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. on bay area news channel on comcast channel 193 or 4.2. >>> americans are spending more money, buying new cars, appliances, electronics and that is sending sales higher. sales were up 1.1% in september. also higher gas prices are driving up sales. with americans spending 2.3% more on gas last

MSNBCW - The Rachel Maddow Show

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The Rachel Maddow Show

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Oct 17, 2012

that everybody should expect a lot of continuity between the george w. bush years and a romney presidency. if you like the george w. bush years and you miss all those folks, like condoleezza rice, don't worry, if you elect romney, you'll see more of them again. this came up last night in what i thought was a brilliant question from one of the audience members at that debate at hofstra, and it got right at the central problem that the republicans have been dealing, since the support for romney creatored during the george w. bush second term. the greatest show on earth has been the republican party figuring out who it is after bush and cheney. the republican party figuring out if they are like bush and cheney or if there's something they learned from those years they don't want to do anymore. are they any different from bush and cheney? who's the new leadership of the party and what do they stand for that's different than the bush and cheney years? it's a really vexing political quandary for the republicans. it's been amazing to watch them try to work it out. they still haven't totally wo d worked

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The Rachel Maddow Show

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Oct 17, 2012

that mitt romney got after his dominate performance in the first presidential debate this year, all eyes right now are on whether last night's debate win by president obama will similarly move the needle. we are three weeks out from election day. but people are voting now, right? people are voting early and by absentee ballot, across the country, including in the swing states. and the early word is pretty good for the president. i mean, every snap poll taken after last night's debate showed president obama as the winner of the debate. the polling outfit ppp even did a swing state specific snap poll in colorado. ppp is generally seen as a slightly democratic leaning firm, but their sample for their colorado voters watching the debate last night actually skewed a little bit conservative. and those colorado voters overall thought president obama won. even better for the obama campaign, the margin of victory for the president was particularly large among the independents who were watching that debate. which is exactly who the president wants to be winning over. you know, it's funny, one of t

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MSNBC Live

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Oct 15, 2012

was often absent from the state. according to that analysis, during romney's four years as governor, he spent nearly a year, almost all or part, 417 days out of the state. the times reports 70% of that time was spent on personal or political trips unrelated to his job as governor. joining me now, phil johnston, the chairman of the massachusetts democratic party. while romney served as governor, he's now head of his own public relations firm. thanks for being with us. >> good to be here. >> you followed that article. then governor romney took lengthy vacations and weekend get aways it says, many of them at his vacation home in neighboring new hampshire. you told the times in this article you thought governor romney gave up his job. >> he was really an absentee landlord during the four years that he was here. by the way, he had a sumptuous and it remains a very sumptuous, over the top vacation home in new hampshire where he used to bring a whole hoard of security guards with him every time he went up there, which was, you know, michael dukakis was governor here and he used to go to work o

CURRENT - The Young Turks With Cenk Uygur

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CURRENT
The Young Turks With Cenk Uygur

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Oct 17, 2012

production went up 14%. what is romney talking about? one year where permits went down. why did it go down? because the bp disaster. they put a moratorium for one year. even despite that production went up. do you want to keep going romney. >> obama: please proceed governor. >> cenk: by all means but let's be fair to romney he had a really good moment in the debate. talking about the last four years. this is where he made his best case for his candidacy. >> romney: i can tell if you were to elect president obama you know what you're going to get. you're going to get a repeat of the last four years. he said by now we would have unemployment at 5.4%. the difference between where it is now and 5.4%. is 9 million americans out of work. he said by now he would put forward a plan to reform medicare and social security because he pointed out they're on the road to bankruptcy. he would reform them. he hasn't even made a proposal on either one. he said in his first year he would put together an immigration plan that would deal with our immigration challenges. didn't even file it. he said that he wo

CURRENT - Presidential Debate

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Presidential Debate

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Oct 16, 2012

a question for you. >> mr. president governor romney, as a 20-year-old college student, all i hear from professors neighbors and others is that when i graduate i will have little chance to get employment. what can you say to reassure me but more importantly my parents i will be able to sufficiently support myself after i graduate? >> romney: thank you jeremy. i appreciate your question and thank you for being here this evening and to all of those from nassau county, thank you for your time and thank you to hofstra university and to candy crowley for leading this event. thank you, mr. president, also for being part of this debate. your question is one that's being asked by college kids all over this country. as in pennsylvania with someone who just graduated. this was in philadelphia. she said i've got my degree. i can't find a job. i've got three part-time jobs. they're just barely enough to pay for my food and pay for an apartment. i can't begin to pay back my student loans. what we have to do is two things. make sure

CURRENT - Presidential Debate

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Presidential Debate

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Oct 16, 2012

're going to do in the next four years. >> romney: but that's not what you've done in the last four years. that's the problem. in the last four years you've cut permits and licenses on federal land and federal waters in half. >> obama: not true governor romney. not true. >> romney: by how much did you cut them by? >> obama: we've produced more oil. >> romney: by how much? >> obama: governor romney, here's what we did. there were a whole bunch of oil companies -- >> romney: i had a question. >> obama: you want me to answer a question. i'm happy to answer the question. >> romney: and it is -- >> obama: here's what happened. you had a whole bunch of oil companies who had lease on public lands that they weren't using. so what we said was you can't just sit on this for ten 20, 30 years. , decide when you want to drill when you want to produce. when its's most profitable for you. these are public lands so if you want to drill on public lands you use it or you lose it. that's what we did was take away those lea

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MSNBCW
Andrea Mitchell Reports

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Oct 17, 2012

years ago. if governor romney is able to win virginia, florida and north carolina, virginia the toughest of the three, then he's in a stronger position, but then it hinges on ohio. i think the president -- governor romney basically has to win those four states. if he does, if he wins the three southern battle xwroundss, virginia, north carolina and florida and finds a way to win ohio he is in a commanding position. he needs to win one of the remaining five states in yellow and probably would win at least one of those five. if he's unable to win those four, all of the four, i think his chances of winning are die mini muss. >> that is almost like drawing a royal flush. >> yeah. >> drawing a straight. >> i would -- i would one up mark halperin and say it's not two states it's really one state though mark is right in his broad analysis. if mitt romney can't win ohio, his paths to 270 electoral votes while not impossible become close to implausible. that it does wind up having him -- having to run a set of states that include places like iowa, nevada, colorado, new hampshire which he could do

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Erin Burnett OutFront

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Oct 18, 2012

voters in north carolina this year alone, and the romney campaign is very concerned they can't match us in the early vote. we've seen how the early vote is going in ohio and iowa and wisconsin where we're way ahead in votes that already been cast. i think they're trying to depress the vote and convince the voters it's over, no reason to vote. the game is over. >> let me ask you this. the president has vastly outspent governor romney in north carolina, 21.5 million to 15.9. according to the president's website, 53 campaign offices in the state and mitt romney has 10. given all of that, are you disappointed it's only as close -- even by your own admission, it's razor-thin. you've put a lot more money and effort for that. >> on the other side of the ledger, the super-pacs and outside groups spending money on romney behalf spent more in north carolina than groups on our point. i don't think our advantage is nearly as strong as the campaign-to-campaign spending would indicate. we won this state by 14,000 votes in 2008. it will be very, very close. a ground game, and we have more offices and

CNNW - State of the Union

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Oct 21, 2012

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State of the Union

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Oct 21, 2012

in the last 20 years and governor romney is coming with a plan and a way to get them employed an able to take care of their children and families. >> that has been true -- what women are concerned about has been true through the whole thing. something has happened here. can you pinpoint -- is it a normal closing of the polls? a one-point advantage for the president at this stage of the game among women voters seems small. >> i think what we are seeing is the electoral and women are crystallizing what the election is about. i think when they look hard what they will see in president obama is what he has done with and for i women including supporting equal pay for equal work. making sure that mammograms, cervical exams and reproductive health care is taken care of. i think what you are seeing in pe polls is that women care about a lot of things, and that's really true. at the end of the day they will look at president obama's record as a demonstration of what he will do in the future and they will look at mitt romney's words an understand that he really has not stood on the side of women. >> yo

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CNN Newsroom

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Oct 17, 2012

effective are what they were trying to do big picture. mitt romney, the past four years of the economy has been bad, he did that from the very first answer from the student who asked how he's going to get a job and continue to pay for things. he continued to do that throughout the debate the president got back to where the democrats really wanted him to be, hitting romney as somebody out of touch, somebody who has offshore bank accounts, somebody who is going to make sure that the wealthiest in this country are going to be the beneficiaries of his economic policies and not others. >> we have landmark moments in all debates. i'm thinking of the make-up moment for president nixon, about president reagan bringing in humor but making a stinging point. is there a moment here where the game is changed? presidential debates going forward are going to be different? >> i think there might be a series of moments in this one. that's why it was so extraordinary, whether it was mitt romney trying to address the issue of inequality or equality and pay for women and talked about binders of women. that's

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The Daily Rundown

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Oct 15, 2012

years later, our enemies have been brought to justice. our heroes are coming home. >> a new romney clip ad uses a clip from the vice presidential debate featuring a laughing biden while paul ryan talks fiscal discipline. >> do they come in and inherit a tough situation in absolutely. but we're going in the wrong direction. look at where we are. >> and finally, two new polls of likely voters have this looking more and more like a coin-flip race. no more buts. that shrinks to one point, 49/48 in a battleground poll. the two surveys show different results out of the battleground states. a poll shows president obama up five, 51/46. romney is up two points. and we'll have to see by how much, it's clear that the first debate did help romney, particularly under the likability poll. 8% say the same of the president. in the gw survey, 34 say they are more likely. 13% say that they are less likely. voters are seeing romney as more likeable. 62% of romney supporters say they are enthusiastic to vote. up ten points from before the debate. those numbers are held steady. still, the portland has some

CSPAN - Call-In for Debate Reaction

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Call-In for Debate Reaction

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Oct 17, 2012

a democrat and obama i feel it's a people person and i feel that mitt romney is a puppet man. next year will start medicare and i did not want anything changed now. obama has shown he is the man for the job. you cannot take all the was put on him and try to get everything to come together in four years. it will take time. >> back to los angeles. he carol, a democratic caller. >> good evening. glad to be on the line. i am a democrat, however, i have been unhappy with obama in the last four years, especially the last year or so with his, the way his ideas towards israel who is been a big ally to the united states. then when the situation in benghazi occurred, i felt so bad when the men passed away there. it was utter terror. i felt the white house was not telling the american people the truth from the beginning. and the way they handled it, i am disgusted. i think there comes a time when you have to vote for the right person who you think is going to be able to do the job. i am going to vote for mitt romney. host: on twitter, a comment -- we will see you again the whole debate coming up a

FBC - Lou Dobbs Tonight

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Oct 14, 2012

FBC
Lou Dobbs Tonight

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Oct 14, 2012

will happen if, in fact, we don't elect governor romney as president. and four more years, four more years of obama will mean that we are going to have to tighten our belts even further to lay off more people. and once it becomes uncomfortable for me to come to work every day,how seriously think of retiring. lou: as you talk about governor romney being reelected, great questions, particularly in the national media about what will he do, how quickly he can do something. there is no specificity to his program or plan for governance. if elected what makes you so confident that he is the better choice? is it his ideas or simply the experience of the obama policies? >> look. i havell large company, and i am looking for a ceo. i have to applicants. i have governor romney that has years of experience in building businesses, making perils and i have president obama that has no business experience and who i going to hire to run a company? the answer is simple, romney. well, the country is like a big company. we need a ceo. do we want to attacks on the west as i said, lots of experience in making pa

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CBS 5 Eyewitness News on the CW 44

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Oct 15, 2012

billion a year. roughly $5 trillion over ten years. but romney and running mate paul ryan say they will offset those costs by reducing tax reductions. they won't say which ones. that's to be worked out with congress. but they promise that they will only target the rich. >> deny those loopholes to higher income taxpayers so that more of their income is taxed, which has a broader base of the taxation. >> am i rambling? >> reporter: in theory there is plenty of money to be found in tax deductions. $1.1 trillion a year, but the most valuable deductions, they don't just benefit the rich. the tax-free benefits that workers received when they pay for health insurance, the tax deduction for mortgage interest and the tax-free payments that workers use to their 401k program. all used by middle-class families and all politically popular. >> the details. >> reporter: the president of the nonpartisan committee for a responsible federal budget says that until romney releases more details, it's not clear if he could pay for the tax cut. >> the question is can you do it without going into the

MSNBCW - The Rachel Maddow Show

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The Rachel Maddow Show

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Oct 15, 2012

presidents combined. >> not at all true. at the first presidential debate this year mitt romney played pin the deficit on the democrat and he totally got away with it. even though it's not true. the red bar is the deficit president obama inherited. the deficit will be over $200 billion smaller than it was last year when the deficit was already smaller than the one the president inherited. barack obama turns out to be a reducer of the deficit. but he gets zero credit for this in the press or turns out with voters. joining us is the man who was supposed to stop problems like that from happening. senior adviser robert gibbs. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you for having me e. >> am i blaming you unfairly? >> i think that was quite an intro. i do think you make a series of great points. we forget that before barack obama ever walked into the oval office, president bush had spent a trillion dollars that year. they want to blame -- it's funny. you listen to them talk about it and you forget that that was all under their watch. and so many of the policies that we're trying to unwind r

CNBC - Mad Money

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CNBC
Mad Money

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Oct 16, 2012

governor romney was ceo, bain capital did invest in 2011, but at least ten years after governor romney left the firm. >> we have four consecutive years when he said where he was running for office he would cut the deficit in half. instead he has doubled it. >> not really, when the president came to office in january of 2009, the congressional budget office put the deficit, a bush budget, at 1.2, so no, he didn't double it, but didn't follow up with his promise to cut it either. and president obama called the benghazi an attack and referred to it as senseless violence, and summing up, according to the transcript, he said "no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation" you be the judge of whether or not he was saying the benghazi act was an act of terrorism. >> thanks a lot. want to bring back our panel, jared, i would love to give you first crack at this, this is going to be sliced and diced and re-played over the next few days, who wins on the sound bites, as seen not in its entirety? >> oh, which point in general -- i thought you were going to play a clip. well, look,

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Oct 18, 2012

romney stands here, after a year of campaigning. when during a republican primary, he stood on stage and said, i'm going to give tax cuts -- he didn't say tax rate cuts, he said tax cuts, to everybody, including the top 1%, you should believe him. because that's been his history. >> when president obama was given the chance to compare mitt romney with george bush, he said romney was more right wing than the former president. >> there are some things where governor romney is different from george bush. heck, george bush didn't propose turning medicare into a voucher. george bush embraced comprehensive immigration reform. he didn't call for self-deportation. george bush never suggested that we eliminate funding for planned parenthood. so there are differences between governor romney and george bush, but they're not on economic policy. in some ways, he's gone to a more extreme place when it comes to social policies. >> this onslaught by president obama put mitt romney in a rough position. just like his answer on libya, romney had to move out of his comfort zone to respond to these alleg

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The O'Reilly Factor

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Oct 18, 2012

. and more slowly last year than the year before. >> bill: well, romney delivered that message very well. even though some of his stats can be debated. the president's best moment came at the end of the debate when he finally brought up the governor's 47% comment where he implied many americans who support barack obama are not self-reliant and want stuff from the government. think about who he was talking about. people on social security who have worked all their lives, veterans who have sacrificed for this country. students who are out there trying to hopefully advance their own dreams but also this country's dreams. soldiers who overseas fighting for us right now. people who are working hard every day paying payroll tax. gas taxes but don't make enough income. and i want to fight for them. >> bill: mr. obama said that in his closing statement so mr. romney could not reply. kind of sneaky but effective. on the negative side, the president had two, two very weak moments. romney one. the governor hectored the president over his energy policy. >> in the last four years you cut permits and

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CSPAN
Capitol Hill Hearings

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Oct 17, 2012

a different theory. when governor romney stands here, after a year of campaigning, when, during a republican primary, he stood on stage and said, i will get tax cuts, not tax rate cuts, tax cuts, to everybody, including the top 1%, you should believe him. that has been his history. that is exactly the kind of top-down economics that will not work if we want a strong middle class and an economy that is thriving for everybody. >> i am sure you have a reply. [laughter] >> you are right. the top 5% will continue to pay 60%, as they do today. i am not looking to cut taxes for wealthy people. i am looking to cut taxes for middle income people. why do i want to bring rates down and lower exemptions and deductions? if you bring rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. for me, this is about jobs. i want to get america's economy going again. 54% of america's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people. for me, i look at what has

FOXNEWSW - Greta Van Susteren

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Greta Van Susteren

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Oct 15, 2012

will have to look say and do i think four more years of romney will be better than four years of obama? the profiles of gasoline has gone up $2 a gallon since he became president. the fact is that banghazi is ultimaterly inexplicable, and that the answers they've given are false and misleading. now we have him hiding behind hillary clinton. he's hiding behind john kerry on the first debate. highed will behind george bush on the economy. going to raise las vegas to raise money immediately after an american ambassador is kid, killed, at what point does will than obama take responsibility? >> greta: the polls are incredibly close. >> i think part of it is frankly the weakness of the republican party in reaching out to a wide range of minority grooms. african americans are dramatically more conservative than their vote for obama and part of that is the republican party's fault. the elite media has worked overtime to prop up obama over and over and over again. that's why you see a little bit of an argument about candy crowley's role tomorrow night whether or not you ought to follow the rule

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Lou Dobbs Tonight

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Oct 18, 2012

. spending on food assistance programs up 70% over four years. governor romney admitted a blind trust does have investments in china. he is not the only one. remember this exchange? >> mr. president have to look at your pension? mr. president, have you look to your pension. >> it is not as big as yours [laughter] >> let me give you a vce. lou: the president did not want to look at his pension to answer the question we decided to check into it. not only ithe president's public pension larger than goveor romney is but the president has investments in china the cayman island address. he will receive almost $200,000 per year for life when he leavesffice for an edition he was a state senator in illinois is defined benefit plan is between 50 and $100,000. the general assembly assistant in illinois a has a lot of foreign investments including. [laughter] chinese companies well as organized as a limited partnership in the cayman islands. sadism so. for governor romney he wil not collect 1 penny from a public pension a declined to take a salary as a $1 per year for his term talk about backfiring. o

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Oct 16, 2012

. romney: but that's not what you have done in the last four years. that's the problem. in the last four years, you cut permits and licenses on federal land and waters in half. obama: not true. romney: how much did you cut them then? obama: produced more oil -- romney: how much did you cut it -- obama: there's a bunch of oil -- romney: i had a question, how much did you cut them by? obama: happy to answer the question. romney: all right, and it is? obama: you had a bunch of oil companies who had leases on public lands that they were not using. what we said was you can't just sit on this for ten, twenty, or thirty years, decide when you want to drill, when you want to produce when it's most profit able for you, public lands, so if you want to drill on public land, use it or lose it. what we did was take away those leases, and we are now reletting them so that we can make a profit. romney: production on government land is down. production is down 14%. production on gas is down 9%. obama: not true. romney: absolutely true. people recognize we have not produced more oil and gas on federal la

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The Colbert Report

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Oct 15, 2012

-- >> stephen: we'll be right back. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. for two years mitt romney has been a severe conservative. but last week he moved to the center in his victorious debate. so which is the real mitt romney? a mystery this deep requires a man who really knows the meaning of "to thine own self be true." me, stephen colbert! this is formidable opponent. [cheers and applause] ♪ [bell ringing] >> stephen, thank you for joining me. >> well, i'll go on any show to promote my new book "america again, rebecoming the greatness we never weren't." [ laughter ] next week, i'm guest-hosting "here comes honey boo boo." 'cuz a dollah makes me hollah! [ laughter ] [cheers and applause] >> well, i'd never stoop that low myself, but i've got to admire shameless self-promotion. >> oh no-- there's some shame. [ laughter ] >> i'd love an autographed copy. >> you bet: okay. here we go. all right. to stephen, you complete me. stephen. all right. there you go. >> thanks very much. >> okay, stephen, voters respond to authenticity. so mitt's clear victory in the 1st debate

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Oct 16, 2012

administration. i'm going to continue to push on this issue for the next four years. >> crowley: governor romney, pay equity for women. >> thank you, and important topic. and one which i learned a great deal about, particularly as i was serving as governor of my state. because i had the chance to pull together a cabinet and all of the applicants seemed to be men. and i went to my staff and i said "how come all the people for these jobs are all men?" they said "well, these are the people that have the qualifications." i said "well, gosh, can't we find some women that are also qualified?" and so we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. i went to a number of women's groups and said "can you help us find folks?" and they brought us whole binders full of women. i was proud of the fact that after i staffed my cabinet and my senior staff that the university of new york in albany did a survey of all 50 states and concluded that mine had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in america. now,

FOXNEWSW - Greta Van Susteren

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Oct 18, 2012

romney. four years ago they endorsed president obama, and in a very impressive editorial, which i'm posting on gretawire.com, and they've outed why they no longer have confidence in president obama. how significant is that endorsements, or is it? >> i don't think newspaper endorsements mean much of anything anymore, but that's a leftest newspaper. they've always endorsed democrats. they may have switched editors or something. i think romney will win florida, win most states. >> greta: now to the gallup poll, seven points. that's the national one. not talking about the swing states, which is where this will be decided. explain whether or not that seven points really is as powerful as some might think. >> oh, yeah, it is. what gallup did, they switched from polling all voters to polling likely voters as the election neared. that gives a more realistic view of what will happen. what's going on now is that obama based his entire campaign, his entire spring and summer and fall on discrediting romney, saying whatever you think of the economy, whatever you think about the future, whateve

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NBC Nightly News

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Oct 16, 2012

four years like this. >> reporter: today the romney campaign is responding to questions surrounding paul ryan's recent visit to a soup kitchen. breakfast was over, but the staff agreed to leave some dirty dishes behind. ryan's aides say they just wanted to highlight volunteerism and local charity. both sides are weather looking for ways to cast tonight's debate aa win in the days ahead, trying to amplify their message, particularly in the crucial battleground of ohio. former secretary of state condoleezza rice will be there for mitt romney this week, as well as bill clinton and bruce springsteen, brian, for the president. >> peter alexander starting off our coverage tonight. peter, thanks. and now to our political team, starting with our political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd, also on the ground of the campus of hofstra university tonight. chuck, earlier today you said you could make an argument that we're now entering the most important single 36-hour period of this campaign thus far. give us a viewer's guide to tonight? >> well, i know that we can be acc

KPIX - Face the Nation

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Oct 21, 2012

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Face the Nation

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Oct 21, 2012

. and as governor romney has focused on that, and he's focused on what he would do better over the next four years, versus the failed policies that we've seen over these past four years from president obama, our campaign has done very well here. and we feel very good about where we're positioned here right now. >> well, i agree with kevin that it is very close. you know, some polls have the president five up, some have the-- some polls have the governor five up. but we've invested in this state. we have more than 100 campaign offices across this state. we believe in our ground operations. we've closed the gap-- normally republicans have an advantage with absentee ballots. in florida, we've close closed that gap in this election in terms of the academy going forwardof agenda, we have made progress here in florida. the housing industry is on the rebound. we created jobs in florida, we created new energy, the solar and wind energy, because of the investments the president has made. i think people in florida agree with most people across this country, they want to build this economy, rebuild this econ

MSNBCW - The Daily Rundown

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Oct 17, 2012

years are going to be better either. >> meanwhile, romney struggled on how he would be better than george bush. >> we are different people and these are different times and i'll crack down on china. president bush didn't. i'm also going to dramatically expand trade in latin america. >> there are some things where governor romney is different than george bush. george bush didn't propose turning medicare into a voucher. yorge bush embraced comprehensive immigration reform. he didn't call for self-deportation. >> when it comes to romney's differ rengs asians, that might have worked for a crowd of republican primary voters but the quote, i'm going to be more of a free trader, that is not for undecided voters who might feel sour on the bush years. romney had a chance to respond on that note because the moderator felt the pressure to cut short some exchanges that might have been interesting if they went on because she felt the need to get more questions in. but it meant that the time clock was almost a supporting player. it was visible behind both men as they spoke and led to frequent at

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Oct 18, 2012

chance do you think roe v. wade will survive after four years of a romney supreme court? >> 19 days until election day when it comes to women's issues, can moderate mitt get away with it? joining me now is terry o'neil, president of the national organization of women and democratic strategist marg margie omara. what is governor romney trying to do with cleaning up all of his extreme views? >> we're actually getting the word out all across the country that mitt romney is not pro-choice. he is not only anti-choice, he is anti-women. he has a history of personally bullying a woman whose pregnancy was threatening her life. as a mormon, a lay woman bishop, he went to her personally to try to force her not to go through a life-saving abortion. her parents were frantic. her father remembers that to this day. mitt romney is so disrespectful of women that he says now he doesn't even remember the incident. that's how little we matter to him. >> now, margie, i want to show you something that kind of struck me. when ann romney was on "the view" today depending the reproductive rights of women from th

FOXNEWSW - America's News Headquarters

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Oct 20, 2012

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Oct 20, 2012

, and the relationship that the u.s. has with the jewish state. on a trip earlier this year, mitt romney made a quite to do about his longstanding relationship with benjamin netanyahu, characterizing it much stronger than president obama, who mr. romney throwing mr. netanyahu under bus, and refusing to have a meeting, etc. president obama has met with benjamin netanyahu, and the white house and the democrats play down any possible rift in all this. it does matter a does the critical issue that mitt romney and president obama have addressed in the parks and that's the threat of a nuclear program, nuclear weapons program, by iran. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has been doing lots of saber-rattling, speaking at the u.n. recently, making lots of noise. that's a big issue, too. in the upcoming debate, you'll hear foreign policy through its entirety, not viewed as one of mitt romney's strong suits. he's argued that the entire campaign should be focused on jobs and the economy so he could speak about his own performance in the private sector. a big test for mitt romney. after all that happens, wheth

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Oct 16, 2012

's a net plus. not a significant net plus, but it helps romney. 20 years ago, 19% voted for ross perot. a the lot of those folks are still voting. >> and they did it in iowa. after florida, which is not a deficit, sort of sensitive state, iowa is a lot of orderer voters. memories of ross perot. >> and a place where the obama campaign has to be concerned. mitt romney after showing no activity came in and basically just about snuck in a primary. campaigned under the radar. >> shameless plug. >> my father, executive producer of the 1992 town hall meeting. >> and it was a great event in television history. >> bloomberg story where they interviewed the father of the late ambassador chris stevens. >> we talked about it today. >> do not politicize. that's an important message going into this debate. romney has to be careful not to politicize it too much. >> 7:00 p.m. tomorrow, there will be a debate between gillibrand and long. i'll be moderating and carried on c-span. >> october in an election year on c-span is senate debate heaven. i love it. that's it for today's edition. tomorrow full deb

MSNBCW - Meet the Press

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Oct 14, 2012

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Meet the Press

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Oct 14, 2012

romney did a great job to show why his ideas over the next four years will beat barack obama's last four years. >> this is the cover of "the week" magazine. it says has obama lost his mojo and the election. i bet you don't see this movement toward romney to be sustainable. >> i think it's temporary. it was a question of mitt romney's style that got a lot of people looking again. but honestly, when it comes to this choice that governor mcdonnell has pointed out, the choice is so clear, and i think the momentum will be slowed not just by the president's performance at the second debate but by the economic numbers that are coming out that demonstrates that there has been clear progress. when we've got the lowest unemployment rate since the president took office, and you've got a huge boost in consumer confidence, highest in five years, highest housing starts in five years, the lowest foreclosure rate in that amount of time, the number of jobs that have been created. i think that will seep in. now, granted, we're not arrived at the promised land yet. no one has said that. but we're on the ri

CSPAN - Public Affairs

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Oct 17, 2012

our economy over the next 40 years? we can gut education, paid for gov. romney's $5 trillion tax cut, or we can recruit 100,000 new math and science teachers over the next decade, helping -- [applause] helping our young people we focus on science and engineering and math. we should ensure all our young people, our daughters as well as our sons, are we don't have to collect a bunch of binders to find qualified women ready to learn in these fields right now [applause] when young women graduate, they should get equal pay for equal work. that should be a simple question to answer. [applause] when governor romney was asked about it, his campaign said we will get back to you. that should not be a complicated question. people -- equal pay for equal work. i want my daughters paid like somebody else's son is paid for the same job. that is the way forward. [applause] last night, governor romney finally admitted that the governor did not support the bill. you don't have to wait for an answer. the late ledbetter fair pay act was the first bill i signed into law. [applause] that was the first bil

CSPAN - Call-In for Debate Reaction

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Call-In for Debate Reaction

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Oct 16, 2012

from now, 50 years and 100 years from now. >> government does not create jobs. >> governor romney, i want to introduce you to barry green because he'll have the last question to you first. >> hi, barry. >> hi, governor. i think this is a tough question. each of you, what do you believe is the biggest misperception that the american people have about you as a man and a candidate, using specific examples, can you take this opportunity to debunk that and set uson straight. >> thank you. and that's an opportunity for me and i appreciate it. in the nature of a campaign, it seems that some campaigns are focused on attacking a person rather than prescribing their own future and the things they'd like to do. in the course of that, i think the president's campaign has tried to characterize me as someone who's very different than who i am. i care about 100% of the people. i want 100% of the american people to have a bright and prosperous future. i care about our kids. i spent my life in the private sector, not in government. i'm a guy who wants to help with the experience i have, the american

CNNW - Erin Burnett OutFront

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Oct 18, 2012

been mitt romney's position on abortion during the year. here it is in 1994 running again ted kennedy for the u.s. senate seat in massachusetts. >> i believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. i have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a u.s. senate candidate. >> now fast forward to last year. here's mitt romney trying to capture the gop presidential nomination. >> what i'd like to see happen would be for the supreme court to say, look, we're going to overturn row v. wade and return to the states the authority to design whether they want abortion on or not state by state. that's how it was before roev. wade. i'm pro-life. >> less than two weeks ago he spoke to the editorial board of "the des moines register" and he seemed more unclear on the issue. he said there's no legislation with regards to abortion that i'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda. so, if mitt does win and he does set an agenda, what will it include with regards to abortion? this literally could turn the entire election. barbara comstock is a romney

MSNBCW - The Cycle

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MSNBCW
The Cycle

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Oct 17, 2012

that the right pushed and believed in for four years and seemed like romney bought in to that with the statement on that initially a few weeks ago and doesn't seem to jive with anybody else thinks about this president on foreign policy and national security. >> well, first of all, the headline of the day so far is that s.e. was despondent. i mean, that says it all. and i think that that moment was important not only for the substance of the libya exchange and the questions about benghazi and how mitt romney has kind of got stuck in something that if he'd left it alone had good sense to leave it alone it would be a more powerful weapon for him pair doxically. what i thought was so fascinating is watch mitt romney, the not nice guy mitt romney move in for what he thought was the kill shot there, the clincher and that he had superior knowledge, he had the president backed in to a corner and so forth and the president just basically said, come on. come on in. and then, counterattacked i thought very, very skillfully and exposed an aspect of mitt romney's character that people are going to look at. i

KGO - Nightline

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KGO
Nightline

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Oct 16, 2012

the outset, both men went on the attack. mitt romney hammering home his basic campaign theme. >> the president's policies have been exercised over the last few years and they haven't put americans back to work. >> reporter: this time, president obama was ready. attacking crisply and frankly. >> governor romney says he has a five-point plan? governor romney doesn't have a five-point plan, he has a one-point plan. that plan is to make sure folks at the top play by a different set of rules. >> reporter: within the first 20 minutes as they argued about the president's record on energy, they almost seemed to want to wrassel each other. >> we are now -- >> and production on government on government land is down -- >> no, it isn't. >> of oil is down 14%. and production -- >> what you're saying is just not true. >> that's absolutely true. >> reporter: they really don't like each other. >> mr. president, have you looked at your pension? >> no, it's not as big as yours. >> reporter: began and again, clearly a strategy, the president acceptably called romney dishonest. >> not true, gove

MSNBCW - Martin Bashir

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MSNBCW
Martin Bashir

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Oct 18, 2012

-year-old romney child. tagg romney is over 40 years old, one of his father's closest advisers. what do you say say to a campaign official who jokes about attacking the president of the united states. >> family members are not always the best surrogates because they wear their compassion for the candidate on their sleeve. the campaign is in damage control mode, so obviously these comments are not there, but honestly his comments later on in that interview about mitt romney being terrified before he goes out for a debate, i think are even more damaging than him saying he wants to take a swipe at the president. they need to do some damage control and tag gk romney needs to get in line with the romney and ryan campaign. >> one of the striking -- one of the findings from harvard speaking about the younger generation, a new poll from harvard points out a 19-point gap among young voters favoring the president. so would you agree they have a better chance of beating mr. romney than tagg does of taking down the president? >> the president looks pretty strong. i think that would be a pretty good

MSNBCW - Weekends With Alex Witt

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Oct 21, 2012

MSNBCW
Weekends With Alex Witt

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Oct 21, 2012

that president obama can't win this election if it's a referendum on these last four years, can romney win if it's a referendum on the eight bush years? >> before i get to that, i want to commiserate with my friend jonathan about the demise of "newsweek." >> oh, thank you. "newsweek" has had people like jonathan who are not only great reporters, not only superb writers but big thinkers. i know that he has thought these things through and i don't know that the online forum will replace the weekly news magazine. it can replace it, but we can hope for the best and "newsweek" global will continue. i don't work there, but it hasn't gone completely out of existence. >> and if we could redirect this back to the campaign. >> not that i mind the two of you from the point that it became clear that romney was going to be the nominee, the obama campaign set about spending somewhere close to a half a billion dollars on demonizing him personally. the average voter is not like us. they can't afford it to be a referendum on the last four years. we don't know yet if it's a failure or a success because we're not

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