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Expected in parts of the appalachians. >> it is going to be a big, big storm. thank you very much. >> it is a busy weekend for the cand dastes on the campaign trail and paul ryan in the battle ground state. find the people that voted for obama in 08 because hope and change sounded good and now know it didnt happen and it was not real. hope and change is now anger and frustration and divide and conquer. well not fall for that are we. we have 10 day to go here and as you look at closing arguments,...

One in five republicans, 25% voted for president obama, then candidate obama. now that its not an historic election do we come back to our natural inclinations? we were having this conversation. >> resetting to the natural -- >> right. well, i was thinking about this as i was listening to you guys. i did a little bit of crunching. and i thought, you know, because i wondered, i hadnt looked who did the undecided voters vote for in 08 and it turns out that a majority -- well, 50%, half of them vot...

My understanding is everyone talks about the country getting more partisan, which means there are fewer of these folks. youre telling me thats not the case? >> well, in 2008 we also ran a big study like this, a panel over the course of the election, and we had about the same level of undecided voters in 2008 that were seeing now. >> thats interesting because all the reporting has not been that. all the reporting says, you read this every political report says fewer undecided, more deadlocked, mo...

This week, i dont think any male politician should be making health care decisions for women. >> president obama speaking in richmond, virginia, yesterday. joining us is melissa harris perry. professor of political science at tulane university. shes a columnist for the nation and host of the melissa harris perry show here on msnbc. thank you for being here. >> absolutely. >> is there a hermetically sealed bubble around presidential elections or does what happens in these swing states reflect not...

Anchors welcome to nbc news, i am brian williams and he spent two-days out on the campaign trail with barack obama. heres part of my hard hitting interview. >> how is it that was what 13 days to go you are fighting for your life in a 47-47 race? so after the excitement of 08 given the power of income ben see you got bin laden you did not expect to be sitting on a more substantial race than we are as we sit here today? >> i cant believe you are losing, can you believe you are losing? >> this is r...

Anchors welcome to nbc news, i am brian williams and he spent two-days out on the campaign trail with barack obama. heres part of my hard hitting interview. >> how is it that was what 13 days to go you are fighting for your life in a 47-47 race? so after the excitement of 08 given the power of income ben see you got bin laden you did not expect to be sitting on a more substantial race than we are as we sit here today? >> i cant believe you are losing, can you believe you are losing? >> this is r...

Producer and obama campaign co-chair. cal, youre a triple threat, nice title there. you just heard the guys here on the set saying, apathy is your enemy, that enthusiasm among young people is down as compared to enthusiasm among other groups for obama. youve been around college campuses. i can see youre in st. louis. tell me youve been on the ground tell me whether you buy that. the polling certainly bears out there is an enthusiasm gap from 08. >> thats not something ive seen, right. ive been o...

They are actually, they are the people romney is counting on because they dont like taxes or government. >> this guy i go hunting with said to me last weekend, you know, these ron paul voters, they are great but too busy writing their manifestos to take time out to vote. >> you pointed out how close it has been in. these elections. new hampshire has gone democratic in the last four out of five elections. its hard to flip a state. one of those historic moments of flipping, obama won this by nine ...

This republican firefighter won against the republican party in his state thanks to all those petitions, they got the union stripping law on the ballot for repeal and ohio voted to repeal it by 22 points. it was not even close. it was a blowout. with that republican overreach, ohio republicans woke up the electorate and the electorate kicked them in the proverbial butt. you want to know who what was the activists in the fight in ohio, who was helping them in ohio with the machinery of the campai...

History, what could move these numbers in any marked way? >> thats a good question. will there be october surprises. there are no more specific events, the third debate was the last scheduled event and they are campaigning frankically 15 hours a day both candidates. theres a storm coming and by the time election day comes around, it will be gone, will the president be able to be presidential and romney could go to the damage, could that have an impact, we dont know. but theres a lot of unknowns....