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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 the things we have learned over the course of this campaign is that mr. romney doesn't like to do stuff the morning after big eve

these folks. >> who do you think won the debate last night between ann romney and michelle obama? >> you won't believe their answers. >>> good evening on this sunday night from boca raton, florida, where the presidential candidates will hold their final debate, right here tomorrow night. and a new poll tonight shows just how high takes this final debate will be. we'll get to that in a moment. but we're going to begin here with that mass shooting in wisconsin. that left three people dead and four more injured. this is the scene tonight, outside that spa near a crowded shopping ball. police and first responders flooding the area, putting them all on lockdown, searching for the gunman who slipped away for a time, but the ap reporting tonight that the gunman's body has been found inside that spa. abc's alex perez is there in brookfield, wisconsin, tonight with the latest. >> reporter: what started out like any other quiet sunday morning in suburban milwaukee, within minutes, turned deadly. 11:00 a.m., the azana spa had just opened for the day. customers already filing in, for peticures and manic

us. last night, he came prepared to play, president obama crushing mitt romney, starting right off the bat when he said hey dude, you don't have a five-point plan, you have a one point plan, which is all about regarding the rich, the rich people like you and screwing the middle class. great performance by president obama. let's talk about it, but first we'll take a little timeout to get the latest update. lisa ferguson standing by. good morning. >> good morning everyone. president obama does have a slight edge right now in who voters think won the debate. the new poll has him at 46% compared to mitt romney's 39. it was a much sharper and more aggressive president obama that we heard coming from him last night. we'll have a lot of fact-checking and explaining for you. i want to start off with libya. this is an area romney had a chance to come out on top and should have come out on top but this turned out to be one of the president's strongest moments of the night. >> the suggestion that anybody on my team or the secretary of state, our u.n. ambassador, anybody on my team would play

last night was that although president obama argued his own case far better than the first >>> argued his own case far better than the first debate he was a totally different president obama last night. i thought that mitt romney got stuck into president obama's record in an effective way too. let's face it. you know this. you are a presidential historian no one has been re-elected other than fdr himself where you had these numbers. these are huge sticks to beat you guys with. let me say a few things about this first. no other president other than roosevelt has come to office with the economic calamity that the president faced and the american people know that. let's look at what happened in the last the 1 months, unemployment dropped at a faster rate than 1995. incomes are up for the first time in four years. today we learned that home construction is up by 15% in september and 38% over the last 12 months. we had a calamity we had to deal with and working our way out of it and gaining a momentum. it's telling that all governor romney can do is engage in these lamm lamo lamentations.

. but all the attention turns to the town hall-style debate tomorrow night. the obama campaign launched a new ad to define the president's message in the home stretch. >> every president inherits challenges. few have faced so many. four years later our enemies have been brought to justice. our heroes are coming home. assembly lines are humming again. there are still challenges to meet, children to educate, a middle class to rebuild, but the last thing we should do is turn back now. >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> part of the strategy is to emphasize his accomplishments of the first term. another part is to flat out motivate supporters. michelle obama tweeted a picture of her absentee ballot to encourage early voting. the campaign is also drumming up visibility with big name surrogates. bruce springsteen will rally supporters in iowa. he will be joined by bill clinton at an event in ohio on thursday. celebrities like scarlet johansson and eva longoria are featured in a video under a romney presidency. the obama campaign also rolled out a web ad with jay-z encouraging y

obama is now feeling better about the debates. >> we had our second presidential debate last night, and you know, i'm still trying to get the hang of this thing. but as bee saw last night, the five-point plan really boils down to one point. folks at the very top get to play by a different set of rules than you do. the we cannot grow this economy from the top down. we grow it from the middle out. we're not going backwards, we're going forward. that's why i'm running for a second term for president and that's why i want your vote. >> the second debate was watched by over 65 million television viewers, just about the same number that watched the first debate. according to a reuters poll, 48% of registered voters believe that president obama won the debate. 33% showed that mitt romney won. and a cbs poll shows 37% of uncommitted voters believe president obama won and 30% believe mitt romney won. the president won this praise from leading conservative thinker george will. >> i think the president's tactical victory was on trying to get mitt romney to un-ring a bell which is very hard to

though, folks, the night was clearly stacked against mitt. after that first debate debacle, barack obama had definitely won the low expectations game. >> for obama the bar is rather low, compared to the first debate all he has to do is string a few sentences together, coherently to make eye contact with a single extentient human and show the slightest animation in his face. >> colbert: charles kraut hammer is right, low bar, obama's last debate performance was so bad .. that bar was set at charles kraut hammer. >> now, mitt, on the other hand, mitt, mitt romney, much greater challenge. >> we are told that they have practiced to such a level of detail that he even was preparing how he sits and there is a good reason for that. he is going to be sitting on a bar stool and mitt romney is a mormon, so he doesn't spend a lot of time on bar stools, according to his aides, because he doesn't drink. >> colbert: yes. that is true. that is true. you should know that. only people who drink know how to sit on stools. that's why, whenever you see someone successfully sitting on one, that is an early s

an urban legend. like an alligator can out of the sioux were at 8 barack obama. i think the audience tomorrow night is going to be huge and people want to know, can he come back? what is his -- and what is his performance going to be like? governor romney has a lot of pressure on him. in terms of the format, it makes it harder when you are answering questions from voters. u-turn and give it to an attack on your opponent. there are a lot of things that president obama wants to contrast. it is harder to do that when you are answering a question. i think president obama will be faced with some difficult questions. the hardest question is someone going to say, i love you in 2008, i with dealing with actual human beings in almost wanted you to succeed, but you have really disappointed me. what will you tell me that will be different? and governor romney has never been goodany setting. ok, so that is a very high risk and high reward situation for him. he has moved his favorability numbers up considerably. if he knocks it out of the park, it could be a huge win for him. if he falters, it wi

that 10 0% line high and down the middle. obama swung for the fences and ended the night with his best of the night. but this battle is just getting serious. obama got beaten and came back to win but these are battles, the war rages right now. only one man with the power to swing it around. he needs to tell us, that's the president, where he's taking us economically, he need to lay out the highway to the future and lay it out in the real terrain of the past four years. that's part of it. saying where he's taking us. he also needs to say where the other guy would. i love what he said about romney last night having a one-point plan, that being to give big tax breaks, even more tax breaks to the people at the top. to dump on the 47% he said he's not going to bother with. we've got to finish what we started in 2008. you don't want to invest in that sketchy deal. >> we're back now. howard and john, let's try to do this straight up right now without any part tinship. someone who let's you know the truth, where does this campaign stand right now? where does it stand not just in terms of numbe

said this. >> how about barack obama last night? you all saw the man that i have sat with every day on average four to six hours a day. a man of principle, a man of gumption, a steady hand and clear vision. i'm proud of him. i'm proud to serve him. >> msnbc's joe scarborough had this to say about mitt romney's performance. >> he came on way too strong. you don't run over a female moderator. it's very dangerous. secondly you don't run over the president of the united states. whether that president is a republican or whether that president is a democrat. there are independent voters who believe that a president should be treated with deference because he is the commander in chief. >> joining me now, msnbc alex wagner and chris hayes. there you are in los angeles, joe scarborough thinking you don't run over a female moderator. i think you're probably about four years away from being a female moderator at a presidential debate. >> that is a laughable prospect, lawrence. >> so what is your feeling about that, about this notion that some guys certainly are having that hey, you know, you d

. barack obama's got tuesday night to re-take command. can he show himself the doer and make romney a would a, should a, could a challenger? joe biden might have stopped the romney train, but he certainly revved up the democrats. and did biden's arguments on medicare and abortion rights also do some damage to the other side? president clinton is out there selling the case of the guy he hopes will be another president clinton's predecessor. he gave that great deal-making speech at the d.n.c. now he's out there on the campaign trail doing what obama didn't do last week -- exposing mitt romney's hard right baggage. with us today, "new york" magazine's john hileman, christian science monitor, liz liz, and henderson henderson from "the washington post," and from "the daily beast," andrew sullivan. thursday night's debate was everything the romney and obama presidential debate had not been. >> you can still preserve the important tant things for middle class taxpayers. >> it's not mathematically possible. >> it's not mathematically possible. it's never been done before. >> it's been done a couple

different president obama last night, i thought he got stuck into his record in a effective way too, you will know this, nobody has been re-elected other than fdr himself, the way you had these kinds of numbers, 23 million americans out of work. where you have a $16 trillion debt. these are huge sticks to heat you with aren't they? >> let me say a few things about that. no other president has come to office with the kind of financial calamity that the president faced and the american people know that. let's look at what has happened within the last 12 months. unemployment that has dropped and incomes are up. today we learned that home construction is up by 15% in september. over the last 12 months, so yes, we had a calamity that we had to deal with and we are working our way out of it and gaining a momentum and it is telling that all governor romney can do issen gain gauge in this is because he has no plan for the country. it is the same prescription we had in the last daecade that created the mess in the first place. exploding our deficits we tested this theory pierce and it was a disas

to be a more compelling economic argument made tomorrow night about why the obama/biden ticket is really the one that's going to keep the country moving in the right direction. >> reporter: aides say the president will bring up romney's vague tax map and the 47% he dismissed in remarks caught on camera. romney is sure to bring up administration's snafu on libya, originally calling the deaths part of a riot, not a deadly terrorist attack. the president is still ahead by two points, essentially a tie. >>> condoleezza rice will be campaigning with paul ryan, the vice presidential candidate with the democrats, former president bill clinton and bruce springsteen, all of them in ohio. lynn? >> tracie, thanks. nbc news political director and chief courthouse correspondent chuck todd tells us what the candidates should watch out for with the public asking the questions. >> you have to be careful. you can attack a moderator and win points with the public. you attack a member of the public and you lose points from the public. this race is at a nice edge of closeness. you no longer describe this as

? let us look at coverage of the dinner last night. obama and romney go for laughs. switching from -- switching to jokes. they set aside an evening to make fun of themselves and each other. let us take a look at one of the clips. president obama at last night's dinner. [video clip] >> i have heard some people say, barack, you are not as young as you used to be. where's the peck and your stop? and i say, settle down. i am trying to run a cabinet meeting. he doesn't smile when he says it though. tomorrow, it is back to campaigning. two cities and towns across our great country. under the same thing everywhere i go. -- i hear the same thing everywhere i go. and i admit sometimes it can be a grind. sometimes it feels like this race has dragged on forever. but paul ryan assured me we had only been running for two hours and 50 something minutes. [applause] of course, the economy is on everybody's minds. the unemployment rate is at the slowest of all since it took office. i do not have a joke here. i just thought it would use all to remind everybody. we will take a look with governor romn

: that was governor romney defending his record last night to female voters, but while the obama campaign attempts to accuse the governor of waging this phony war on women, we must not forget it was one of the president's former aides who once called the white house, quote, hostile to female employees. ironically that person served as the moderator during obama's debate prep in recent days, former white house communications director, anita dunn. in "confidence men," she was quoted as saying "this place would be in court for a hostile workplace because it fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women. joining me, the author of "culture of corruption," michelle malkin. michelle, first of all, there was a story that came out from the free beacon in april of 2011 that women in the white house were paid 18% less than their male counterparts. since obama's been president, we have a half a million fewer women working, .5% increase in unemployment for women. the poverty rate for women in this country, 16.3%. 25 million american women live in poverty, an increase of 3

and michelle obama last night? >> i had have to say michelle obama. she did a lot better. her speech was more drafted in. you know, more finely well cut. >> the last person is going to get tough on china is that guy romney. for god's sakes romney was assembled in beijing. >> they talked about a lot of things but everybody knew that mitt had one ace in the hole. libya gate. romney and his running mate have been hammering the president over this cover-up for weeks. >> that's not what we do. that's not what i do as president. that's not what i do as commander in chief. [ laughter ] >> who do you think won the debate last night between ann romney and michelle obama? >> definitely ann romney. i think she's very classy and a wonderful lady. >> was there anything she said during the debate in particular? >> no. i just like how she looks. >> i hate to say this on fox i hope i will be allowed to leave here alive but i don't think there's any way we can gut spending and not -- to make a meaningful difference, we're going to

obama's perform man last night impact the race with 20 days to go? >> i think it does two things and they are both beneficial. one, i think as you can see from the flash polls, not only did people generally think he won the debate, but independent voters by a fairly wide margin thought he won the debate and i believe there is still 8 or 10% that haven't made up their mind. you know, the pollsters say they are 4% undecided but a lot of people lean that can still be persuaded. so i think he made a very compelling case. he looked like the leader that he is, he addressed the issues forthright and called governor romney on the mistakes and misstatements and he actually left a few of them out like governor romney said he would grow the pell grants and the romney/ryan budget cuts them, not grows them. so that helps with the undecided voters. but, two, for our base. our base is whipped up, just as down in the math as we were two weeks ago and enthusiastic and whipped up and ready to go now. >> ana marie, what do you think? >> i agree with governor rendell, that progressives are excited a

obama, recharged today, after that epic showdown last night. >> it was the right thing to do. >> so, who is the front runner now? >>> end of the road. nike fires lance armstrong. and the man who founded livestrong will no longer be its leader. >>> and, head over heels. watch this. a world leader has just become the latest casualty of her high heels. with all those stumbles, a lot of sole searching tonight. >>> good evening. as we come on the air, we have breaking news tonight. the fbi says this 21-year-old man from bangladesh is under arrest, accused of plotting to blow up this building, the one with the red roof. the federal reserve bank here in new york. the man did not know he was being tracked by an fbi sting and abc's dan harris has this developing story at this hour. dan? >> reporter: diane, good evening. police say this morning, the suspect parked a van that he thought was loaded with 1,000 pounds worth of explosives, in front of the building behind me, then walked several blocks away and made a cell phone call that he believed would set it all off. prosecutors say the suspect --

, last night, mitt had obama in his sights. >> it was a terrorist attack. and it took a long time for that to be told to the american people, whether that was some misleading or instead whether we just didn't know what happened you have to ask yourself why didn't we know. >> the suggestion that anybody on my team, from the secretary of state, u.n. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. that is not what we do. that's not what i do as president, that is not what i do as commander in chief. >> colbert: okay, okay, obama landed a good punch, but then romney asked the president the question that would change everything. >> i think it is interesting the president just said something which, which is that on the day after the attack he went into the rose garden and said this was an act of terror. >> that's what i said. >> you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration? is that what you are saying. >> please proceed, governor. >> i want to make

to the campaign trail today following the fiery debate. huge pressure on president obama last night to overcome his lackluster showing in the first debate. governor romney gave little ground, setting the stage for a series of bruising exchanges. the north american editor was watching. >> in 19 days' time, what man will be elected president. both are claiming victories in the big debate. the two men face questions from the audience which reflected the overwhelming worry. >> what can you say to reassure me and my parents that i will be able to support myself? >> what has happened over the last four years has been very hard for america's young people. i know what it takes to get this economy going. >> president obama under pressure after his past performance in the last debate and went on the attack. >> he has a one-point plan, to make sure the people at the top plate by a different set of rules. it has been his philosophy as a governor and as a presidential candidate. >> used to getting their own way, determined to get the last word. >> not true, governor romney. >> they got uncomfortably close.

. >> it was hugely an important night for president obama. after his miserable performance in denver. his supporters and independent voters needed to see that spark and fight from him. i think that's why you see in these polls voters saying he won the debate. i don't think it's clear that him winning the debate means that he widened his lead or gained ground over all. often who wins the debate and what people voters have to say have to do with expectations going in. >> eliot: in the first debate that mirrored it, but it may not reset the campaign the same way the first debate hurt him. >> there were interesting numbers on cnn. they asked voters who won the debate. think obama had the advantage. and then who won the debate on the economy. romney had the edge. who seemed like the stronger leader romney had the edge. when you ask who won the debate, and asking them where it leads them in terms of their vote are two different things. >> eliot: it's not clear which of those questions are causally linked to the vote. the president tried to do cross-examination on the governor last night, on the issue of t

up, president obama won the big moments in last night's debate. did he win back those key voting groups, those blocs, if you will, he needs to win to win the election? women. latinos, younger voters were big for him last time. can he get them energized again this time? did he do it last night. >>> you're not really going to hated this one. bosses for romney. there's a growing list of ceos around the country ordering their employees to vote for, guess who? mitt romney or else. talk about voter intimidation. vote for this guy or i'm going to fire you. >>> the presidential temperament. both guys were feisty last night, circling the ring like prize fighters and getting in each other's faces but it was clear who looked more presidential, i think. james lip ton joins us to review last night's high-level political theater. >>> finally, let me finish with this new element of bad politics. we've had voter suppression, voter intimidation, racial incitements and now the family on the hill telling the little people down in the valley how to vote. this is "hardball" the place for politics. ov

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have lost the women's vote last night. president obama saved his best for last. he delivered a closing argument as the clock ran out and mitt romney had no ability to respond. >> i believe governor romney's a good man. he loves his family, cares about his faith. but i also believe that when he said, behind closed doors, that 47% of the country consider themselves victims, who refuse personal responsibility, think about who he was talking about. folks 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 are 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. that's what i've been doing for the last four years. because if they succeed, i believe the country succeeds. >> this was an answer democrats wanted and the american people needed to hear. this was a debate where president obama had to deliver. he did. i

to a better night's sleep growing president obama better brace himself. whether he wants to talk about it or not during tomorrow night's town hall debate, people will be able to ask him about libya. and today mayor rudy giuliani accusing the white house of a coverup. good evening mr. mayor. >> good evening greta. how are you? >> greta: very good. any doubt in your mind there's a cover-up? >> there's about five conflicting statements about what happened. we have very clear evidence now that the white house knew very early on that there was no protest proceeding this terrorist attack, so there would be absolutely no reason to attribute this to any kind of protest over this, you know, horrible muhammad movie. by the time ambassador rice appeared on the four or five television shows, i think it was september 15th already, it was quite clear the at that point this was a trillions terrorist attack, planned, not some kind of response to some kind of film they were offended by, and they went ahead and outright misrepresented by saying it's a spontaneous attack. president appeared before the un

the night after bill clinton. clinton made an amazing speech even by his standards. obama's just wasn't quite as good. it wasn't quite as inspiring. i thought even his wife sounded a bit more up for the battle. since then i just felt that the president's mojo isn't what it was four years ago, almost like he's been battered down by the job. do you see that in him? >> i doubt seriously whether that's in fact what has happened but you couldn't watch that first presidential debate and not come away fearing if you were a democrat and believing if you were a republican that that was the case. he's been off himself for quite a little while now in terms of public appearance, public speaking. one can say look, he has a lot on his mind but for whatever reason, in the first debate, he was in the public perception beaten and beaten fairly badly by governor romney. it will be very interesting to see what he does tomorrow night. i would point out that tomorrow night is under a different format, as you know, that this public crowd participation which is a different format and a much more difficult f

. president obama and governor romney slugged it out last night on the debate stage. today, both are back on the campaign trail. just moments ago, the president weighed in on the debate last night, keeping on top of things. >> governor romney has been running around, talking about his five-point plan for the economy. as i pointed out last night and you guys heard yourselves, it is really a one-point plan and not a high point plan. folks who play by their own set of rules. megyn: it sounds familiar. governor romney picked up where he left off last night. slamming obama for not describing his plan for the future. >> i think it's fair to say that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. don't you think that it is time for him to finally put together a vision of what he would do in the next four years if he were elected? he has got to come up with that over the weekend. there is only one debate left on monday. megyn: both of these events are streaming live on fox news.com. we will take up the question of president obama's agenda for the next four years with karl rove at t

for it the night before the debates because obviously -- >> she just taking the heat away from obama tomorrow night, you think? >> exactly. i think that's the plan, as much heat as she can, because she knows this is a vulnerability for them. we will see how president obama handles that but she takes the heat off saying listen, it's my department, i'm responsible for it. that was pretty predictable. >> is it credible, though? all your experience, is it credible that the white house, the president, the vice president, would have no knowledge of any requests from an embassy for extra security, particularly in a hot spot like libya, where there's been so much attention from the white house in the last year? >> i can certainly see where someone else would have a different view but i think it is credible, particularly in the heat of an election campaign. i'm not saying it did or didn't happen but denying that it happened, it has credibility with me because the president, let's face it, has been concentrating, as has governor romney on three key states, florida, virginia and ohio, which those three states

doesn't. >> it's an awesome new guy to play the president last night. obama was great, back to his old self. i thought romney was great, too. he had stiffer competition but i have to say that i'll get to the good stuff that i thought romney did but that libya moment was a kick in the gut, not just because i wanted that moment to be good for romney, putting politics aside, you know i'm invested in this story, and the disappointment to me was that where this was a clear opportunity for romney to continue this line of questioning that we have had for the president and the administration on libya, now the story is romney got it wrong. instead of the story being libya is a mess abe we need answers so at least for a couple of days i think he took away progress we have been making on the story. has nothing to do with politics. i left that debate very despondent because of it. >> all right. well, there's a resounding verdict. >> hang out. >> tears in the coffee. >> bring in howard fineman of "the huffington post" media group. howard, i want to pick up on the libya thing because this is the sec

of the night there. who won the night? the two snap polls gave the president the win. 37% gave obama the winner, romney 30 and a tie of 33%. in a cnn poll, 46/39. the president stayed 30 minutes after the debate taking pictures with the undecided voters who asked questions. it was a reversal of the first debate where romney lingered and seemed to enjoy the moment, if you will. romney left undecided voters with 65% margin, somewhat smaller advantage than he had before the debate. but voters picked obama by 13 points when asked who would do more to help the middle class as president. that middle class thing, that's iowa, wisconsin, ohio there when you're talking about the battleground states. how did the ron allen sat down with undecided voters in columbus, ohio. >> the interaction between them was really aggressive. i thought it was a little rude at times. so that's not something that i was fond of. they made an agreement beforehand not to directly argue with each other and they broke that. >> the vice president who sat down for a series of network interviews after the debate shared a different

on the campaign trail this morning after last night's debate that saw a much dunk president obama than americans saw in the first. t.j. winick joins us live from new york where the debate was held. >> reporter: whether president obama won or not last night most believe he did what he had to do to make this a real fight the last few weeks before election day. president obama made his first post debate campaign stop in iowa where he jocked with the crowd despite favorable -- where he joked with the crowd. >> >> the president: i'm still trying to figure out how go the hang of this thing, debating. we're working on it. we'll keep on improving as time goes on, i've got one left. >> reporter: mitt romney stumped in virginia. >> i love these debates. these things are great. [ cheering ] >> i think it is interesting that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. >> reporter: the president and his republican challenger came out swinging, circling each other much of the night like two prized fighters. >> you will get your chance in a moment i'm still speaking. >> reporter: mitt romney

trail this morning after last night's debate that saw a much dunk president obama than americans saw in the first. t.j. winick joins us live from new york where the debate was held. >> reporter: whether president obama won or not last night most believe he did what he had to do to make this a real fight the last few weeks before election day. president obama made his first post debate campaign stop in iowa where he jocked with the crowd despite favorable -- where he joked with the crowd. >> >> the president: i'm still trying to figure out how go the hang of this thing, debating. we're working on it. we'll keep on improving as time goes on, i've got one left. >> reporter: mitt romney stumped in virginia. >> i love these debates. these things are great. [ cheering ] >> i think it is interesting that the president still doesn't have an agenda for a second term. >> reporter: the president and his republican challenger came out swinging, circling each other much of the night like two prized fighters. >> you will get your chance in a moment i'm still speaking. >> reporter: mitt romney was

if you supported mitt romney before, if you supported obama, that at the end of that night, if you went into the spin room, you could say my guy won. i thought they did well in the closing statements for themselves. i think if you go back to, if we roll back tape about six months ago, i've been saying president obama has yet to tell us why does he want to be president for a second term. what does he want to accomplish? you mentioned it in the b block. that's great. this is sound bites. the president did not lay out a second term agenda. he's laid out no term for the second 4 years. he was light on his agenda. >> do you want me to keep going? please do. >> i thought the best moment of the debate was that the end. >> i felt like it was recycled language that he used before, fair share, fair share. that was. the tag line. i got them, don't ask, don't tell. >> he use he didn't use winninge future. >> let me finish. he presents a vision that isn't very fair, that is unfair to those who create johns and who are more successfu successful a, which is a lie, this is how our economy is growing. h

, those who were hoping a different president obama would show up at last night's second presidential debate, they got their wish. in terms of energy, the dynamic between the two men, the tempo of the conversation, the body language, genuine flashes of anger, last night was very different, some said like a street fight between obama and romney. and while a lot of facts were thrown on the stage, a lot was said, there were enduring images and lines, like the romney quote, binders full of women, which took on its own life today. and here are numbers to consider as we get under way tonight. we're under 500 hours to go before this election, and so far, the campaign members have spent just under a billion to get elected. think about what all that money could buy. back here, with the race, chuck todd and andrea mitchell, and chuck, a new day after a big event. >> you know, absolutely, if it was not clear to you before it should be now. the two men trying for office, don't really like each other very much. barack obama and mitt romney clashed in what could have been the worst and most difficu

. and that service will be open to the public. >>> on to campaign 2012 tonight, tomorrow night president barack obama and former governor mitt romney will go head to head in the second of their three televised election debates. this time in a town hall-type discussion with voters. elizabeth cook takes a look at how both men are preparing. liz? >> reporter: well ken, a debate prep has been more like a conclusion for president barack obama and mitt romney, staying behind closed doors as they prepare for tomorrow night's debate. after joking that his debate prep was a, "drag." president obama showed supporters at a campaign office in a weekend of virginia that he is hitting the books. john kerry is standing in for romney. the president's team vowed that they would up their performance after the first time around. >> i think he'll be aggressive in making the case for his view of where we should go as a country. >> mitt romney was only seen briefly during his preparations, heading in and out of church yesterday. the ohio senator says that the romney campaign is getting ready to rumble. >> i think presiden

on candy crowley. mitt romney didn't have a bad night but president obama was clearly. >> before anything was even said so this was set up. there was a little bit of infrastructure built already going into the debate that she was -- they was going to get some heavy criticism, particularly from the right. you heard that a lot. >> there was a memo of understanding between the campaign about how active she could be, we'll come back to that. the tone of the reaction you'll be shocked to hear was somewhat different on msnbc and on fox news. >> president obama won last night. he had good lines, good line of take, and he finished strong hitting a homer in the ninth. >> and now everybody knows exactly where the president was tonight. beating mitt romney in the debate handling. >> obviously we saw a more aggressive, assertive president obama tonight. he was much more on his game. >> this president is not used to being questioned. he's had a fawning media and i don't think they've served him well because he has a hard time. he did not like it. he was visiticably angry, fighting for time. >> roger s

. president obama has to have a big night. his aides have telegraphed he'll be more aggressive, showing he wants it a lot more than the first debate. that's difficult with this format. they won't be addressing each other, addressing questions posed by the michael jordan mod. you don't want to be belittling our demeaning to the person who asked the question. >> they sent out a big memo this morning going through all of these statements, word by word, that romney had made in the first debates, followed by long answers that the president should have given. i mean, it was 2800 words, a long memo they went through. >> greta: i got that long memo. i thought, oh, brother, i've got enough to do today. >> they're in would have, could have, should have mode. it's basically here's what i should have said. i expect that's what the president will say tomorrow night. >> the certainly the element of do-overs in any of the attacks. if big bird gets mentioned again, he'll know exactly what to say this time. i think what makes this unpredictable, the questions will be totally 50ly diffeidateo retread the gr

. president obama and mitt romney return to the campaign trail today after appearing last night at a catholic fundraiser here in new york. instead of contentious debate the dinner offered for more light hearted salvos. president obama's comments about libya on a comedy show made headlines. tara mergener is in washington for us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: it was not all laughs last night but the candidates made that traditional stop along the campaign trail, a chance to score political points with humor for a good cause but today it's back to business. for one night only president obama and mitt romney took a break from the bitter campaign. sort of. >> in the spirit of "sesame street" the president's remarks are brought to by the letter o and the number 16 trillion. broipt men were featured speaker of the al smith dinner, a white tie dinner for catholic charities. >> it's nice to relax and wear what ann and i wear around-the-house. >> reporter: president obama was spoke second and quick on the draw himself. >> everyone take your seats otherwise clint eastwood will yell at them. he

knows they will see a different president obama tuesday night. >> the president can change his style. he can change his tactics. he can't change his record. >> reporter: while the debate about the debate was the talk this sunday, the obama campaign is also filling the ohio airwaves with a new ad using actor morgan freeman. >> four years later, our enemies have been brought to justice. our heroes are coming home. assembly lines are running again. >> reporter: and this week, bill clinton and bruce springsteen are in ohio campaigning for the president. ♪ this land >> reporter: big names aimed directly at the undecided voters in a critical battleground state. ♪ >> reporter: how important is ohio? well, mitt romney was there four days last week, david. expect him to return later this week, as well. >> i'll be packing my bags. thanks for the travel tip. our thanks to you. >>> we showed you that poll moments ago, president obama holding a slim lead in the most pivotal battleground of them all. tonight our ongoing look here at the undecided voters, the voters in the swing states who could ve

] >> that's our show. join us tomorrow night, 11:00. president barack obama will be in the studio. we'll have a nice conversation. here it is, your moment of zen. >> on facebook, use of the phrase of "women binders" went up. sketchy went up. gangbangers went up. >> did you say "gang backers"? captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> welcome too the report, everybody. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. folks, good to have you with us. hey, hey, let me ask you something, everybody see that debate last night? butn't that great? i mean, romney clearly won. and, folks, i am not just saying that, i am saying that on tv. so if you're an undecided voter who did not watch, just trust me, it is 2 and 0. even though, even though, folks, the night was clearly stacked against mitt. after that first debate debacle, barack obama had definitely won the low expectations game. >> for obama the bar is rather low, compared to the f

. they also care about medicare. that's why you saw obama hitting those things over and over last night. so i think his goal is to expand it beyond the economy, talk also about social issues, health issues. and i think romney has done himself some good in that last debate. we'll see what the polls show on going forward whether or not obama was able to pull away again in terms of the women's vote. >> all right. our wednesday morning power panel. powerful this morning. i appreciate all three of you being here. anita dunn, jackie gingrich cushman, and nia-malika henderson. thank you all three. >> thank you. >>> all right. up next for you, the woman who introduced that infamous viagra bill in ohio. will it slow romney's momentum in the buckeye state? and we want to know what you think. if you put together debate number one and debate number two, is the horse race dead even right now? or is one of the candidates leading? tweet me @richard lui, we will share some of your tweets a little bit later on. re trust duracell...?? duralock power preserve. locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. now..

racial deliciousness. >> stephen: that was a while ago. that was the night obama was nominated, you sir, did lick your chops and say the racial deliciousness. >> glad i made it from a threat to an alpha dog. >> stephen: you're welcome. my worry is why are you in my studio? am i on fire? is this place about to collapse? >> in new jersey you are hot. so yes, yes. >> stephen: thank you very much. what i love but going in and doing those city service jobs. you shostled a driveway that was complaining it shows we don't need big government we need one very committed mayor. how is newark? >> doing extraordinarily well. we're in the biggest economic development period since the 1950's. companies are coming in from pana sonic moving the headquarters. 1,000 employees, to the global headquarters to manechevitz. >> stephen: you have the worst wine on planet earth coming -- mazel. >> can i get it to you wholesale if you would like. >> stephen: thank you very much. what do you think happened at the first debate for your friend barack obama? were you tempted to go in there and fire him and carry him o

obama needs an actual decisive win. i said that yesterday. he didn't do it last night. he needs a decisive win, not just one chattered by the class in the immediate i media that b. mitt romney has to be better. he has to pressure him. last night mitt romney got a question on how he was different when this comes to the economy and then george w. bush. i would like to hear mr. obama get asked the question about national security issues. he cannot sit there and stonewall. he's not going to have candy crowley to save him. i hope bob schieffer is much tougher. >> the toll raised for obama, $432. for the romney campaign, hears the $279. >> i just said this i. it's wrong. >> they've raised a heck of a lot of money. >> the biggest media markets are buying in. it's interesting where they're all the same except north carolina. he does not have it there for good reason. they're pulling out. >> okay. bob, give the gums a rest. >> that's coming from you? one more thing is next. [ music ] wooohooo....hahaahahaha! oh...there you go. wooohooo....hahaahahaha! i'm gonna stand up to her! no you're

taken trail following last night's debate. mr. obama will be in iowa and ohio. romney travels to virginia. cnn poll finds registered voters believe the president won last night by seven points. 46-39%. president obama and mitt romney sparred over everything from libya to jobs. mr. obama appeared more expressive in this second debate. both taking shots at one another. >> we have not made the progress we need to make to put people back to work that's why i have a five pint plan that gets americans 12 million -- new jobs in four years itch >> the president: governor romney doesn't have a five point plan he has a one point plan that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules. >> the showdown was the only town hall style debate election day less than three weeks away. the third and final presidential debate next monday in florida. the focus will be on foreign policy. the debate starts at 6 p.m. and you can watch it live here it >>> 5:33. in a few hours a coalition of cities and watchdog groups will file a formal letter of protest against what they a

morning, eric. >> governor romney who you have advised, what should he say to president obama tomorrow night? >> the tragedy that occurred in benghazi is a debacle for not only the administration's foreign policy before the attack and after the attack, it's also emblematic of the failed world view, its inability to understand what's going on in the middle east and the threats that the united states, israel, and our arab friends face and inindicative of a larger problem globally. i think for governor romney to articulate a peace through strength through foreign policy will be a substantial contrast with what the obama administration has failed to achieve. >> everyone's focusing on benghazi at the moment. before we get to this, talk about the world view. look at egypt turning his back on must b mu.you've got russia,e islamists. tell me more about your view of that world view and how you think mr. romney could define it tomorrow. >> well, i think this goes to the basic issue of america's place in the world. do you think as president obama does that america's too strong, that we've had too

obama. >> obama clearly had a good night. >> it was an act of terror. >> he did call it an act of terror. >> on the question of libya both the president and romney were wrong. >> i'm still trying to get the hang of this thing debating. >> time for him to put together a vision of what he did in the final four years. >> i'll keep improving as time goes on. i have one left. >> we have this show. >> cenk: i hear you on that. although you didn't love what you heard last night. the script began as it did in the first debate as it did between mitt romney and abraham. mitt romney came out strong. here's what happened in the first question. >> romney: i know what it takes to create good jobs again. i know what it takes to make sure that you have the kind of opportunity that you deserve and kids across this country are going to recognize we're bringing back an economy. it's not going to be like the last four years. the middle class has been crushed over the last four years, and jobs have been too square. when do you graduate? 2014 when you come out in 2014 i presume i'll be president. i'll make yo

presidential nominee mitt romney at last night's al smith dinner made one of his jokes about president obama, that was also sort of an implicitly a shot at the first lady. one of the interesting things is the first lady, herself, was not in the room. mr. romney was there with his wife, ann romney, but the president was there without the first lady. michelle obama was not in the room. i think that is what made mr. romney's joke more awkward than it otherwise might have been. >> campaigns can be grueling, exhausting. president obama and i each very lucky to have one person who's always in our corner, someone who we can lean on and someone who's a comforting presence without whom we wouldn't be able to go another day. i have my beautiful wife, ann, he has bill clinton. >> which is a funny joke, but he's also a little bit mean to the first lady, right? mr. romney did go on at the end of his remarks to say very nice things, very nice and serious things about the whole obama family. that sort of softened the blow there a little bit. michelle obama was also the subject of a self-deprecatie ii joke

dynamics in this debate last night that were fascinating, including romney and obama sort of circling one another on the set alfa male sort of thing romney interrupting all of that. do you think the personal physical stuff is something that people will remember almost more than the substance? >> well, there is no question that was a debate to be remembered for all time. it was quite bit different from the kennedy-nixon debate in chicago back in 1960. i've known president obama for a long time. he's perfect gentleman and always is. in that first debate he was gentlemanly when he was interrupted over and over again by romney. in this debate i understood if he was going to be interrupted or if romney was going to try to talk over him then he had to defend himself. he did that. i think the people of our country saw both candidates very clearly. there are clearly differences in philosophy and approach, and i think our president is the one to go with. >> jennifer: the interesting thing, in the way that it closed out last night, president obama had a real opportunity because mitt romney raised t

president obama last night. but the president was ready for it. >> the day after the attack, governor, i stood in the rose garden and i told the american people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. that this was an act of terror. >> the president just said something, which was that on the day after the attack, he went in the rose garden and said this was an act of terror. you said in the rose garden, the day after the ta tack, it was an act of terror. is that what you're saying? >> please proceed, governor. >> it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi an act of terror. >> get the transcript. >> he did, in fact, sir. >> can you say that a little louder, candy. >> he did call it an act of terror. it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole idea there being a riot out there about this to come out. >> the administration indicated that this was a reaction to a video and was a spontaneous reaction. it took them a long time to say this was an act by the terrorist group. >> we looked at the tape on the day after the attack, septembe

something that president obama said at tuesday night's debate. the question to him which never got answered, was whose decision was it not to beef up security after so many folks we are now learning through the cables to the state department had asked for it. this is part of what he had to say. >> the suggestion that anybody in my team or the secretary of state, u.n. ambassador, anyone on my team would play politics or mislead when we have lost four of our own, governor is offensive. >> first to you, mr. speaker, how does mitt romney avoid that sdmarch they are playing politics because you hear it on the campaign trail. this is politics, it is politics. >> it is offensive for the president of the united states to prethaend being asked a serious question about a serious topic in a presidential campaign is some personality game. the fact is the president of the united states, he says he was responsibility. he was asked. he said hillary is not responsible. she works for me. i'm responsible. if he is responsible why -- this is his quote. he felt like the taliban was inside the state department.

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