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. >> welcome. president barack obama and governor mitt romney. >> okay. so let's stop it right there. who do we think is winning so far? >> obama. >> obama. >> pageant judge? >> right away obama came up with a hi, hello, the hand up high with a big smile. >> aura expert? >> just you could feel from his various body language. >> so far it's equal. >> they both walked on to the middle of the stage and shook hands and literally nothing else has happened so farr. >> exactly. >> that's fascinating. but key debate analysis is much deeper than how you walk into a room. man who works at tie store, who do you think is winning so far? >> governor romney has a tie interestingly enough with a stripe. it's actually an english stripe as opposed to an american stripe. it seems to me someone running for president should have been advised to wear an american striped tie. >> i have to agree with you. >> pageant judge, you agree with that? >> i agree. for the overall package, you're representing america. many people may not have that knowledge, but now that i do have that knowledge, it just made me feel like, why

. >> if obama was right and he said that i said that day it was stepper, technically, the last four weeks never happened, he is living in a fantasy world with confusion and incompetence over anance blaming a video like when you wake up and you find out something is a dream. they are saying this didn't happen but that is baloney. >> if you take all of the statements made by the administration and you separate them in different rooms like they do on "csi" and ask the same question, what did you know and when? they would not, no one would have the same story. >> more answers than trivial pursuit game. >> this is a third world country in the middle of -- libya is. theyor there were gangs running around that were terrorists, in question. the libyan government, when this is said and done you will fine when you prosecute these guys you will find a bunch of gangbangers who have a lot of weapons. >> excuse me? are we really talking about gangs like the bloods and the cripps? every country that obama has chosen not to get involved in, al qaeda has stepped up or the muslim brotherhood. i have a list on th

think the race has tightened since the first debate. i think you're right. the fighting barack obama has to show up tomorrow. by the way, it doesn't have to be obnoxious. when he gets asked a question by someone in the audience, stand up and say, look, there's a real difference between what i would do and what governor romney would do and outline that difference and show how he's going to stand up and fight for the middle class. i think the structure of this race still favors the president because romney virtually has to run the table, especially if obama holds that lead in ohio. >> now, joan, should the president point out the blatant dishonesty and distortions of mr. romney and his campaign to mr. romney tomorrow night in front of, i'm sure, what is going to be a record breaking crowd of viewers for the second debate? >> yes. i think he has to. and they are trying to put all kinds of restrictions on candy crowley. they don't want her to ask follow ups and be the fact checker. i think in a charming, polite way, when things come up, if we hear with the six studies again, if he's brazen e

. >> i will get us to a balanced budget. president bush didn't. president obama was right, he said it was outrageous. he was right. but then he put deficits in twice that size. >> the center piece of his economic plan are tax cuts. that's what took us from surplus to deficit. >> of course, another significant part of this debate tonight focused on the recent attack on lib i can't and the death of chris stevens. channel 12. >> debate watchers are weighing in on two candidates performances tonight. live with the democratic reaction to tonight's debate? >>> frank, about 100 people were here to watch the debate tonight. there was quite a bit of applause for the president. it is a room full of democrats. they did seem to appreciate more of the tow to tow exchanges between the former governor romney. some high fives on one of the occasions when president obama accused romney of not telling the truth of his plan. let's talk to some of the people here who were watching the debate. shelly, you are running for a supervisor. you are a democratic candidate. what are your thoughts. >> it was gr

.s. supreme court in this coming term. >> all right. president obama came out in may saying that he supportd this. >> yeah. >> and late in the game but there. all right. people are happy he did it at some point. >> yeah. >> the question is, do you think it's going to impact the election in november, which is around the corner? >> i wouldn't bet money lost that obama was going to make a statement before the election. i thought he wouldn't do it. i thought he would feel it was too much of a political risk. this is another important about our movements. we're having unlikely and likely allies, allies like president obama take risks for our community. that is a really important step in a social justice movement. >> because? >> it shows we're worth risking for. he knows that it's the right side of history to be in support of gay couples being fully recognized as equal. >> uh-huh. >> i think it's helped obama. given people struggling with the issue but wanted to feel like they were doing the right thing in terms of justice, equality and fairness, it's given them permission to follow the same ark a

from the deep water horizon oil spill in the gulf of mexico in 2010. but mr. obama is right that since he took office oil production on federal lands is up. in both 2009 and 2010 oil production increased so even with the 14% drop last year overall production on federal lands is still up 10.6% since 2008. one other thing, in terms of natural gas production, natural gas production is down and declining since 2003 according to the energy information administration mainly because of a decline in offshore natural gas drilling, brian. >> andrea, another topic early on, and this has come up sporadically during the campaign, what did mitt romney say and when did he say it about, quote, letting detroit go bankrupt, more specifically general motors? the president kind of threw down on that topic tonight. >> reporter: well, the president was referring to a newspaper piece that mitt romney wrote back in 2008, but the governor never actually said let detroit go bankrupt. that was the headline by the newspaper, but what romney has been saying, that he was in favor of a managed bailout, a managed ban

't. president obama is right. it was outrageous to have deficits of. >> cenk: that's the best you got? we don't need the arabs any more and i'm going to kick some chinese ass? that was horrible. do you know why he doesn't have a good answer? because he does have the same plan as george w. bush. that is to cut more taxes than bush and create more wars than george w. bush in the middle east. that's not all. president obama took that opportunity to pile on and talk about the social side of romney as well. watch. >> obama: there are some things where governor romney is different from george bush. george bush did not propose turning medicare into a voucher. george bush embraced comprehensive immigration reform. he didn't call for self-deportation. george bush never suggested we eliminate funding for planned parenthood. there are differences but they are are not on the economy policy. in some cases he has gone to a more extreme place when it comes to social policy. >> cenk: i would have been stronger than that, not in some ways but every way. mitt romney is significantly more right wing than george

the result of fallout from the deepwater horizon oil spill in the gulf of mexico. but mr. obama is right that since he took office, oil production on federal lands is up. in both 2009 and 2010, oil production increased so even with the 14% drop last year, overall production on federal lands is still up. 10.6% since 2008. one other thing in terms of natural gas production, natural gas production on federal lands is down. and has been declining since 2003. according to the energy information administration. mainly because of a decline in offshore natural gas drilling. >> another topic early on, what did mitt romney say and when did he say it about, quote, letting detroit go bankrupt, more specifically general motors, the president kind of threw town on that topic tonight. >> well, the president was referring to a newspaper piece that mitt romney wrote back this 2008, but the governor never actually said let detroit go bankrupt. that was the headline by the newspaper. but what romney has been saying, that he was in favor of a managed bailout, a managed bankruptcy where private investors wou

it in poland and for this groups, that is when the corner got turned on president obama's ratings as an economic manager. he is running a little bit ahead of them, and the right track- wrong track. literally the moment that bill clinton stopped speaking, no president, not even me, could have fixed the problems in just four years. that is probably the most important single sentence. it is amazing, if you remember how much bitterness there was between president obama and bill clinton together. the story is how the two of them got over that alienation between the two of them over the course of the last four years. the longtime clinton person says, it is totally transactional and highly functional relationship now. they are both getting something out of it and they care about the policies that president obama represents which is almost entirely the same policy that bill clinton inherited -- embrace. tavis: what does clinton get out of this relationship at this point your comment a moment ago? >> i think president clinton gets a couple of things out of it. he knows bill clinton as well

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. the big "hardball" question of the night, where does this stand politically right now? where does it appear to be headed between now and the 20 days from now when the american people give their final verdict? "the huffington post" howard fineman, nbc political consultant. president obama came out swinging today on the trail as he referenced last night's debate. let's watch that together. >> so, let's recap what we learned last night. his tax plan doesn't add

going to support for president, mitt romney or barack obama? >> barack obama. >> right. so you're voting for barack obama? >> i'm putting to the a scrapbook of the whole 2012 campaign, and i don't -- i have these great pictures from the two debates. do you know which debate was which? >> cute. cute, jon. >> you know, we really should spend the whole show with that stuff. we have since learned that 2.8 million people watched the president during the first airing of "the daily show." probably got a good laugh. straight ahead michelle obama on the campaign trail promoting early voting but how many are following her advice and how does it change the political landscape? [ male announcer ] here's a fun fact: this single scoop of gain gives more freshness than a whole box of this other stuff... and that much freshness is gonna take some getting used to... [ sniffing ] ahh. mmm! [ male announcer ] yep, it's amazing what a single scoop of gain freshness can do. and now get even more gain at a new lower price! ♪ i just finished a bowl of your new light chicken pot pie soup and it's so rich and

is entirely about the economy, and it's very much, you know, to president obama's disadvantage right now. what's important about things that libya and foreign policy is all that does feed into well is this guy feeding me a line. right now, especially with the last couple of weeks as ambassador bolton very clearly pointed out, you know, a lot of questions about president obama's credibility, his maturity as a leader, and his leadership are sort of coming into question. that does feed into it, but it all is, you know, viewed through the prism of who is going to fix the economy and what is he going to do about it. >> you know what? in two weeks they'll decide. charlie hurt, great to see you. have a great day. thank you. >>> jamie, as you've been reporting this morning. former united states senator and 1972 democratic presidential nominee george mcgovern has decide. a family spokesman announced he was surrounded by family members and loved ones when he passed away. he was 90 years old and known as a liberal fire brand known for his opposition to the vietnam war. he also knew battle firsthand. he s

the middle ground. george allen talks about how tim kaine was dnc chairman, obama's right-hand guy. tim kaine fires back that george allen voted with george w. bush well over 90% of the time. he was the national republican senatori senatorial committee chairman. another race that's within the margin of error and will be right until election day. we don't know what the electorate will look like on election day. that's what it will come down to. is this an electorate that looks like barack obama wants it to look like or one that looks like what mitt romney wants it to look like. the virginia race will very much be affected by that. >> does it say anything about us that we sit at home at night and watch these debates? >> too many c-span channels. >> our tweet of the day from chris matthews. both candidates were funny. obama honored spirit of evening. more a pillow fight than a roast of the other guy. continuously releases calcium plus d with efficient absorption in one daily dose. citracal slow release. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my m

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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

. this plays into the whole right wing, you know, taker versus maker. obama has wanted to surge the unemployment rolls. he wants more people on food stamps. he wants more people on welfare because he wants the government to control everyone's lives and so then out of loyalty, you know, they vote for obama. it is a slight conspiracy theory. and they love to push it because it portrays people as poor -- >> if we had single payer they might have a point. >> stephanie: exactly. eric, great stuff. we'll talk to you next week post-debate. thanks so much. [ applause ] >> stephanie: he seems to love me when he's with me and then he can't get away from me fast enough. >> that always happens on your first date. >> stephanie: my story. betty in florida you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi betty. >> yikes. >> locked outside. >> weeping on a loom. >> stephanie: i'm thinking she was sitting on her washing machine. >> of course you would picture that. >> stephanie: what? maggie in wichita kansas. you're on "th

's missing in the obama campaign right now is not a couple of points on the scoreboard or the polling or even a couple of states that are getting tricky right now, it's a spiritual loss. this campaign, the obama camp needs a spiritual revival, and only one man can bring it. it needs to see the leader out front. it needs to see the man they're fighting for, and what does he win? out there bringing the fight to the enemy? they need him playing strong defense tonight, saying my record is good. i saved the american auto industry. i brought this economy back from the brink of collapse. i gave women equal money for equal time. i saved a lot of things, especially the honor of this country, to not have 40 million people sitting in the emergency room among all the industrialized countries, we were the last to do it. i want to bring a lesson which comes from military war, which tells you what i think obama has to do tonight to regain that spiritual leadership. you know why the idf won the six-day war in israel against all its enemies? because the israeli tank commanders ride with their heads out of the

romney. it's a referendum on barack obama. >> exactly right. >> bill: wrom think doesn't have a to make that. >> exactly wrong. >> bill: all is he going to say i am going to do it? >> do you think with all the problems barack obama has and the economy and everything else that mitt romney is still tied with him? if you had a decent candidate they should have a a% or 7% lead by now. >> bill: i will answer that question in the sense of what you just said. it's hard to dislodge a guy you know for four years in place of a guy you don't really know. if you demonize a guy him. hoover, jimmy carter, then the vote is going to be against obama rather than for romney. >> i think the obama campaign has done a good job of demonizing mitt romney and i don't think the guy likes him very much. >> bill: why did he he surge. >> he he did have structural change in the election. >> bill: that changed peoples minds. >> changed some people's minds not enough. >> bill: what do you mean not enough. >> not enough. >> bill: he is up 6 in the gallup poll. six. >> what does that mean? >> bill: that means that he w

five." ♪ ♪ >> dana: all right. know what it feels like for the obama campaign right now. >> dana: i find that hilarious. do you feel like the message for women they keep hitting themselves? >> greg: the war on women was a series of rapes. that's what it was. ive found that they were always saying it's romney who hates women and the right or sexist. the left, i don't include bob in this, the left has a sexist view of women in that they assume women are gullible to surface charisma of a light weight politician. you just have to like somebody because, he is cool. that to me is more insulting than anything you could say to a woman. they talk about romney failed women. speaking of failed women, stephanie cutter, lie detectors consider her mount everest. the woman hasn't told the truth in decades. exaggeration. i don't really know her. >> dana: which is your specialty. that is why we love you. >> greg: how dare you. >> dana: listen to something the got response the other night from the debate and get your reaction. >> why is it that there are three 3. 3.6 million in poverty today than whe

right where he wanted him because that phrase wouldn't have been said for two weeks. obama knew exactly what was happening when he said, you know, check the transcript, you know, go ahead. and it really emerged with that much egg on your face when one of the things you can competently organize those around you to execute on a plan, whether it's from the economy or even to prepare for a debate lake this and be effective really undercuts one of his central claims for, you know, for why he's the guy. >> right. julian, if anyone owned up to major politicizing during a trangdy we give you mitt romney during that 47% videotape. >> this is really -- by the way, if something of that nature presents itself, i will work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity. >> there you have it, julian. given that two parents of the deceased have plead the for their sons' deaths not be used as political fodder, isn't it time mitt romney gave us details about his taxes instead of exploiting this tragedy? >> the important point is romney said he was looking for an opportunity to exploit a national sec

. >> sure. and if you're an incumbent, barack obama, you want those numbers about the right direction to go up because obviously then people are thinking and feeling better about things. that's what we saw predebate and post debate, the only real movement in those numbers. in fact, in this whole campaign it's been close, it is going to be close. i think what we're seeing is when the numbers passed 40%, that's when obama started talking more about moving forward and became a harder argument for romney. don't look just at the margins, the six-point lead, the eight-point lead. let's take a look at where obama is. his approval rating around 50% and he's getting 51% in the tossup question. that's really important because it's not like he's at 54% or 55%. 50 is a good number. you can carry a state with that. >> but barely. >> it's better to be ahead by four or five points than ten points if it was 45%/35%. >> lee miringoff, we'll have a couple more polls. we'll check out west next week before we drill down to what we think will be the closest race and be polling the living day lights out of them.

a state there and this we go, right? >> caller: will obama investigate for fraud and put these guys in jail? >> bill: well, i don't know. i mean, i certainly think that the justice -- put it this way. the justice department is in fact looking at efforts to suppress the vote in several states, and there could be some criminal investigations. by the way, i just saw yesterday in virginia, a republican official was arrested in virginia for some voter registration fraud. >> that could very well be the story of this election and the media, so far the mine stream media is ignoring those stories. >> bill: they certainly can't blame acorn this time for stealing the election. charles down in tampa thanks for joining us. >> caller: good morning mr. press. >> bill: bill, bill, thank you right. >> caller: sorry it's just a habit of mine. bill, i just find polls to be funny as hell, because on either side of the party line when the polls show one thing all parties go get giddy guidey. the electoral college what their projecting is a flawed number, also because each state, they change their mind w

it is -- right now, obama among white voters is 36 to 39%. that's a lot. that's a lot of money -- >> with undecideds sitting out there. >> mitt romney, we're looking at maybe 60% of the white vote for mitt romney and then 80% of all minorities for the president. >> yeah. >> talk to us in terms of the strategy and the long-term strategy for the republican party does not seem to be one of reaching out to all colors and all faces of these united states, but -- >> right. >> let's talk about this. >> the percentage of the white vote that the republicans need to win is just rising and rising every election cycle. right now it's at about reagan levels. romney needs to win the white vote by the same level that reagan won in his landslide election to win. we're close to that level. and that number will keep going higher and higher. that's why i think you're seeing the roster of swing states change. right. new mexico was won by bush in '04, contested in '08 and this time around the republicans are not contesting it. arizona is just out of reach for the democrats. it will become in reach

-eleven's cup hole, right now, obama is up by 20 points ( cheers and applause ) no, folks, wait a second. are we sure they're not using four--year-old data? because i'm pretty sure they're using four-year-old hot dogs. what is terrifying about this is the 7-eleven cup poll is uncharacterly accurate. >> did you know this promotion actually lined up perfectly with the results of a 2004 and 2008 elections? >> stephen: and who can forget in 2010 when they accurately predicted the election of senator shrek? ( laughter ) nation, i call bias on 7-eleven. their entire poll has a margin of error of plus or minus mormons can't drink coffee. and you know what else is going on here? you know what else is going on here, folks? voter fraud. oh, yeah. why else would anyone drink 7-eleven coffee? folks, we must require voter i.d. before anyone can buy a cup of joe. i am sure 7-eleven will be just as rigorous about checking i.d. for cups as they are for beer and cigarettes. but ultimately, beverage-based polling, i believe, demeans our political process. thankfully, next week, there's another presidenti

. by bringing up 100%, romney threw a big slow one right over the plate. if obama had tried to introduce the 47% without it getting teed up, it would have looked artificial. and as it happened, because the debate ended on that, romney did not get to rebut. and so the last impression which is important is voters' minds is a guy who behind closed doors which is where people think you tell the real truth, what you really think about people, he was dissing half of the american public. and that was a powerful, powerful message for obama to end the debate on. >> i think the 47% wanted to hear it. and they wanted to hear it from obama. let's move on. the other questions tonight. what did you make of the president's ability to be tough without being -- without losing his likability and his presidential status. did he achieve that goal today? >> oh, yes. and the most important part of this debate was the libya exchange. but the reason it was so important was because of how obama stared right into romney saying basically i am the commander in chief, you are not. i understand how this job is done. how dar

't good right now. >> one of the things president obama did very well last night, he connected all of those things that republicans like to call women's issues to economics for women. for example, in terms s of hea care, when a woman is about to lose health care because obamacare will be repealed where she no longer will get preventive care, no longer have access to cancer screenings or no longer have access to birth control, those are all very much connected to women's economics. and that question that spawned the binders full of women wias all about pay equality for women. the fkt that mitt romney, a, did not ask the question and b, when asked throughout his campaign whether he would support the lily ledbetter act, the first bill the president signed as president speaks volumes about what he actually thinks is appropriate for equality for wom women. and that is not a whole lot. and i don't think that's going to help him for the next three weeks in the campaign. >> an a, i also wanted to touch on candy crowley. both men actually interrupted her. some viewers thought that the cand

in the last two weeks. i bet you any dollar right now mitt romney outspends in the last two weeks obama by a big margin. >> bill: all right, gentlemen. very very interesting. we appreciate it directly ahead lou dobbs once again on oil prices. we ask lou to explain to us president president obama's explanation on why gas prices are so high. later, gutfeld mcguirk kind of fed up with militant women. this could get troubling. the factor will be right back. >> bill: lou's the boss segment tonight during the debate i said one of president obama's weakest moments was this one. >> he said when i took office the price the gasoline was 1.80, 1.86, why is that? because the economy was on the verge of collapse. because we were about to go through the worse recession since the great depression. as a consequence, of some of the same policies that governor romney is now promoting. >> bill: what does that mean? all right, here now to explain what the president was explaining fox business anchor lou dobbs. rather than me poison the well here. i just don't understand what he is saying. >> i don't know t

come through on anything. >> i want to defend barack obama. >> he supports women's rights. i am concerned about them being stripped away. we fought so hard to get them and i don't want to go backwards. barack obama supports women's rights. >> women are a huge part of this country. we are the bread winners in a lot of homes. we can't have a slick guy coming into office who based on his beliefs doesn't even believe women should work. >> is romney slick? >> no. >> is romney anti-woman this. >> you can have the final comment right there. >> i can't think of anytime or any place i have seen mitt romney say we are going back to the stone ages and we will make abortion illegal. i don't know where this came from. >> was romney -- did romney win your vote today? >> he did. >> this is as significant as we had in denver 10 days ago. this group really swung. we will find out late other in your show exactly what moved them. back to you. >> we will check in with frank. frank another great job. we will check in with focus for this insight. and joining me now in the spin room, romney campaign s

fewer in revenue in order to pay for that. barack obama is right. the math does not work. the math might be boring, but the math doesn't work. if you're living paycheck to paycheck right now and you decide your going to quit your job and buy a new car at the same time. so you have less money coming in and lots more money going out. what does that make you? it makes you psyched because you got a new car and you don't have to work. but a decision like this, less money coming out and lots more money coming out. a decision like that puts you in deep, deep, deep debt. if you do that at the national level, you are a lot of things but you are not good on the deficit. except apparently people think that you're great on the deficit. and that distance in perception, distance between the perception and reality of mitt romney is a political problem. if you're that bad on an issue like this and people think you're great on the issue, that means something in our politics isn't working right. someone is not doing their political job at making people understand the reality. why is that? obama campaign s

a president who is in trouble and president obama is right now, it could change, but right now he could lose. and then his supporters like ms. payne and ms. ledbetter will find anything to degrade the opposition. so now we have a binder. this is how far we have gone down. the governor tried to do a good thing, and he has now a good thing and he used the word binder. >> so many women's rights groups and victims rights groups not only in massachusetts and around the country, they are not really speaking on behalf of women. on behalf of the democrats. they don't care about women's interests. i worked on two of governor romney's commissions in massachusetts. i watched her come to our meetings and say governor romney wants women to be in positions of authority. >> i think we established that. >> erika, i will give you 40 seconds to wrap it up. don't say anything crazy so i have to interrupt. go ahead. >> the fact that wendy said women's groups and then said victims groups is another thing i find offensive. the other thing is there is an inorder nent number of women in this cri. we are the majorit

. >> suddenly he went, wait a minute. am i on the right track? you hear the stutter and then you can see obama in the background. again there he is with the wide legs spread like i feel confident. and you can hear the car -- sarcasm in the voice. he won because he looked of that. >> i disagree on that one. the governor's body language was stronger despite the halting when the president denied doing what he did. >> romney is stronger in the beginning. >> all in all, chest thumping. >> well, the next one was really the chest thumping. that was a good one. >> a little king kong thing there. >> male dominance. >> we will have you back next week. >>> who are the most over rated white people in the country? mark lamont has that. and megan kelly with some shocking debate stuff. that may be overstating it, but kelly will be here and we hope you stay tuned for the [ mother ] you can't leave the table till you finish your vegetables. [ clock ticking ] [ male announcer ] there's a better way... v8 v-fusion. vegetable nutrition they need, fruit taste they love. could've had a v8. or...try kids boxes! pres

now, 68% chance of winning for president obama, if the election were held right now. that's because of the slight advantage for him in the battleground states. everyone will be watching this tomorrow night. hope you watch it right here on abc news. we begin tomorrow night with george and diane in new york, along with the rest of the power house political team. i'll be here with jake tapper. 9:00 p.m. eastern, right here in the hall. >>> and as we've been reporting here, the wisdom is that that election is going to be all about one thing, the economy. and so tonight here, the housing market, that was at the center of the meltdown. well, parts of it are not surging. last month, new home construction was up 15%. that's a four-year high. and abc's matt gutman reporting tonight on the new building boom right here at ground zero, in florida. >> reporter: this woman needed just one look. >> i feel in love immediately. >> reporter: consider it the new american dream house, both downsized and supersized. you see, her new tiny three-bedroom house is just 1,800 square feet. down 500 from their

frisch rejoins us for right-wing world. rush limbaugh. >> obama's facial expressions, agitated, mean nasty-looking at times, it showed undecided voters that he is virtually impossible to reason or do business with. >> did he look arrogant to you? [ laughter ] >> full of himself like he thinks he was god's gift. olive gift. >> stephanie: angry and muslimy. >> to have rush limbaugh hire a body language -- you know interpreter, i would think that rush is in the market for a new bride, but -- [ laughter ] >> stephanie: apparently he has not yet asked for the binder of women. >> stephanie: would you say, i don't mean to lead you or anything, does he seem arrogant to you, up itty -- >> does he seem as if he would ever send white house staff to pick up his medication perhaps high dosage painkillers, risk his entire career all for the sweet, sweet knockout power of oxycontin. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: steve doocy. >> look for some type of a strike in a timely fashion before. >> the debate is going to be 9:00 pm so probably before that. >> stephanie: the president

, right in between president obama's $250,000 -- i'm not sure it's a sweet spot, but that's what he's hoping, laugh a million versus george allen who doesn't want to raise any taxes. effective? >> i don't think so. i mean, what he doesn't say, it doesn't actually reduce the deficit. it doesn't say how you'll grow the economy. george allen is jumping all over this, saying, look, tim kaine's solution to every problem is to raise taxes. >> kaine raised taxes as a governor of virginia, and doesn't seem to be hurting him, dan. he's still that close in the polls. tax issue not cutting as much as it used in. >> i'm not so sure about that. george allen is trying to raise the issue of the health of the larger economy. what allen is interestingly showing, you can talk about details like the sequester or budget and relate it to a larger message of economic reform successfully. i think that is what he's somehow articulating in a very kind of plain spoken way there, and it's giving kaine problems with that. >> the irony would be if the democrats do hold the senate, it's going to be with a lot of

, right? >> right. obama obama's position, though, is that everybody's not going to have thousands of dollars less in their pockets. his position is people over $200,000 income are going to pay more, or as joe biden said kind of leading that little fact, millionaires, that's what they're trying to make happen. if they do nothing, as sam was talking about, and we go over the cliff for a short period of time, democrats will then propose a tax cut that disproportionately benefits middle and lower-income earners, and dare republicans to oppose it if it doesn't have a lot of benefits for the top. >> one clarification, but the tax plan that obama's putting forward actually doesn't extend the tax breaks for the wealthiest people up to $200,000 in income. it's the rate that's over that that don't get taxed. >> john, basically what we're seeing is potentially this could be a fiscal clif in the wile e. coyote style where you tread in the air but you could come back onto solid ground. >> it's possible. in fact, it's probably more likely than not that going over the cliff for at least a short

you care about are at play. gwen: obama has lost ground with women voters, right? >> he has. we don't know. some polls suggest he's lost quite a lot of ground. he won -- he beat john mccain among women by 13 points. he needs to do that well or better. he's not doing that well even if you look consistently at polls. the question here is, a, turnout. but also that word extreme. senator bennett won his senate race in colorado in 2010 by essentially taking his republican opponent and telling suburban women, this guy is off the charts extreme. and that worked, it also worked in nevada for harry reid when he ran. that's what's at play here with suburban women in virginia. it's so targeted now. we almost know her name and she lives in a suburb of washington and virginia and this is the idea. it's that it's the issues that you care about but it's also extreme. >> the difference in those races is those were senate races with unknown candidates. nobody knew who these candidates, these republican candidates were. and it was this talk about the tea party. it is quite remarkable that we are back

vision? i think that is the plan. you are right. a lot of democrats complain that barack obama lacked the vision thing in his debate. but people haven't seen what he would do in terms of job creation. i think the blueprint was the jobs act that was proposed. they didn't get much support from senate democrats but suslook at staffing off the layoffs and so that is what he will try to lay out tonight in terms of a more forward looking vision. he will make the case that he was given a bad hand but that the economy is slowly going back to where it s you talk to voters they are not sold on either message. they want more details and do s >> i disagree with that. romney, knocked obama out in the first round. there is a pro growth message and it doesn't start with government jobs. it starts with confidence and it starts with some kind of pro growth tax policy that is friendly to corporate america. we have the same tax rate as japan. it need to come down and there is plenty to do and romney, if he delivers it again, he may be out cold. >> i think he may have the more detailed growth plan. but r

that you are right that the obama administration may or may not welcome that, but it does not matter. if it happens, they will be held accountable, and i think that is a good thing, and that is what the history of the 20th century teaches us. tavis: just looking at the cover of the book, for get cracking a book, just looking at the cover, some of the greatest -- forget cracking the book, just looking at the cover, some of the greatest americans and the issues that they fought for and the game that they won, they haven't benefited all americans. -- they have benefited all americans. i am not naÏve in asking this question, but why is it that those on the right do not understand that when there is a push for this kind of social justice, we all win? >> it turns out in 1911, the first socialist congress, one man introduced the first social security bill. at the time, people thought that was a radical idea, a socialist idea, and then franklin roosevelt passed social security during the depression, and now 75% of the tea party members think that social security is a good thing. the right-w

president obama's policies would significantly harm small business. how so? >> that's right. my colleague has a paper out over the weekend that describes both the relatively small tax cuts that president obama has passed into law for small businesses and the relatively large tax increases he's proposing, raising tax rates on small businesses almost 10 percentage points as a core element of his tax plan. >> richard, you say if there's going to be a real solution here, it's going to be a compromise on revenue. and you say that actually the president is helping small business. how? >> well, it's worse than that. their math is bad. their assumptions are all unfavorable to the president. the president understands that. this he differs from governor romney. if there's a way to deal with our long-term structural deficit, revenue's a part of it. how you talk about that, without this sort of broad-brush any tax increase is bad is part of our political culture these days. the fact of the matter is, the president's plan is fairer, more effective, more ee fishgt affic more likely to help small busine

or virginia. all right. the obama campaign is leaving nothing to chance. the boss will hit the buckeye state for the president this week. bruce springs teen will team up with former president clinton for a rally on thursday. the boss will also campaign that day in ames, iowa, following the trip to iowa. springsteen isn't the only star weighing in for the president. both campaigns are up with new ads. the president's spot challenges his voice by morgan freeman. >> every president inherits challenges. few have faced so many. four 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 batt

from the debate! it was a thing about obama! this is insane, right? but this is what they do. this is their trick. war on women? your war on women. the overall problem here is that mr. romney brought up the binder story as a way of avoiding answering a very direct question on policy, which is, does he support fair pay for women? his running mate, after all, voted against the lily ledbetter fair pay act, and the question's first response about that question, the response was memorably noncommittal. >> does governor romney support the lily ledbetter act? >> sam, we'll get back to you on that. >> that was six months ago. last night, this was still an unanswered question. would mitt romney support fair pay for women? we know his running mate was against it. is he for it? mr. romney gave no answer about the policy at the debate. that's when he instead wandered off into the now-infamous binders anecdote. his campaign followed up last night. ed gillespie said, "mitt romney was opposed to the lily ledbetter fair act at the time." but now they sent out another change, in the form of a

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

. but both he and candidate barack obama were there and that was totally in the thick of the campaign. right? that was one night after their presidential debate that year at hofstra. we're two nights after the presidential debate. barack obama and mitt romney will be speaking there tonight. we'll carry them live and uninterrupted unless the interruption is from krchris matthews, delegate ldirectly be president. he could spill a drink on him. if he does something to interrupt the proceedings, we'll interrupt everything. other than that, we will bring you president obama and mitt romney, you can see there on the right side of your vescreen alo with his wife. we'll bring you those remarks as they deliver them. for what might be a preview of the president tonight, here is how then-candidate barack obama did in 2008. that same night with john mccain. >> there is no other crowd in america that i'd rather be palling around with right now. john mccain is on to something. there was a point in my life when i started palling around with a pretty ugly crowd. i've got to be honest. these guys were seriou

the moment. >> here's the thing. because you said that about romney right before we saw obama let go, i was watching obama's facial expressions. when he says the joke he does not smile his way through the joke, enjoying himself through the joke. he seems serious like romney, beat, then big smile or laugh or self-deprecating laugh or some other show of emotion. he does sort of look a little stabbed himself while he's initially delivering it. >> that's because they're terrified. they're not comedians. this is a ridiculous thing. it would be like say, you're a comedian, now one day you have to be president. i'd be terrified the whole day through. >> and your career as a comedian will be over unless you're a great president. >> yes. if you're a great president for one hour you can continue your career as a comedian. >> it is weird, but do you feel like this is actually a healthy thing for the campaign season for the contest because they're forced to at least sort of fake civility and say nice things about one another's families and talk in this context? or do you think that this is so fake

, he opened the door and so president obama went right through it. >> michael, what if the president had forgotten? 47% slipped the mind. guess who was there to remind him. mitt romney. i think oprah calls it the a-ha moments. >> i think what you are saying is what if that question hadn't been asked at the end and a foreign policy question and left on the cutting room floor and the president would not have been able to deliver it. eugene, maybe the answer that he gave was frankly one of the only times last night and speaking for both men that he considered the answer. what is the misconception that you want to correct? i heard him say two things. he cares about everybody and secondly i thought that was a very subtle explanation of what it means to be a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. he was saying people misunderstand my religion an misunderstand the compassion i have. i agree with both of you that it was a very strong response by the president. >> absolutely. what was not left on the cutting room floor, libya. we knew that libya would come up. we could hav

charging out of the gate, right, in the debate. he was going to prove that president obama was totally out of touch. because as mitt romney said, it took him 14 days to -- took the president 14 days before he stated that what happened in libya in benghazi was an act of terror. he was wrong about that. dead wrong about that. the very next day as president obama pointed out the very day after the attack in the rose garden president obama said it was an act of terror. but mitt romney tried to stick by his guns until candy crowley the moderator finally said mitt, you're wrong. let's move on. remember that little tense exchange with president. >> obama: saying read the transcript. >> romney: want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi an act of terror. >> obama: get the transcript. >> he did in fact call it an act of terror. >> obama: can you say that a little louder, candy? >> he did call if an act of terror. >> bill: mitt romney i

may tend to advantage mr. obama. >> bill: all right, now, am i wrong when i gave you the ottis comparison? >> yeah. listen. i think you have got a better chance of getting cousin ottis on your show than do you vice president biden. >> bill: why doesn't he come here and just try to mock me? i mean, i'm easily mocked, hume, you do it all the time behind the scenes. >> look, i never do it when there is a split screen. >> see, i want the vice president to come in and mock me. and i'm not going to react like congressman ryan reacted. i have a few other ways to deal with him. he is not going to come in. >> you are getting ottis first. >> bill: ottis day and the nights is my favorite groups from animal house. the point i was trying to make was what the folks could ask could be anything. you take the question. you show -- you are absolutely right. you show a little empathy. i can't believe you are going through that hard time, martha. you know, i wish i could cut your lawn and paint your house just like tom sawyer but i can't. i'm going to do some good things for you. they can answer w

have to reelect barack obama? 32 million americans have health care right now off because he stood up to make sure that health care got done. in 24 days, we will tell you why barack obama needs to be reelected president. kids need to graduate from school because of a doubling pell grants. what is at stake is women's rights because women deserve to decide what they will do with their body, and not have somebody to tell you what to do. that is for the hspcu's for doubling their money. it is for the latinos to stay here. we can say hello to our veterans. all of the communities that have a shot. a committee -- president for the 100%, up 47%. virginians in 24 days, as have his back. reelected barack obama. when we think about what is at stake, which cannot be involved unless we are registered to vote. on monday, october 15, that is the registration deadline for virginia. you cannot be part of this process, as you can. you think about what is at stake. many of us have been traveling through virginia. some of us were down in north carolina. usually, you go around and somebody will hand out a

up is not correlating with some sort of obama going down on his job rating. >> right. >> and that is -- >> could it be that the president outran his string? could it be he outran his string? his good news has come too late? >> that's a very strong possibility. >> the housing market is up, job claims are going down -- >> but it came two months too late. i think the best thing to happen to romney was that first debate. you had 70 million people who finally saw him, not the caricature in the tv ads. they saw him in the flesh. i'll tell you what, i have been talking to a lot of swing folks in places like new hampshire, places like florida last couple days. operatives in both parties in those swing states, and they say that was a huge moment because for the first time people saw, yes, this is somebody who could be a plausible alternative. it doesn't mean they were willing to sort of buy the right there, but, yeah, i can live here. >> they let him in the house. once you let him in the house, it's hard to say get out of the house. >> here is a fun little nugget -- >> he's si

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