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Wisconsin. theres no such emphasis on ohio. i look at wisconsin. if romney can win that and pick off a couple others like new hampshire, iowa and stuff like that. he could get to 270 without ohio. when you look inside ohio, a couple things stand out. the thing i see is the jump in wisconsin from 04 to 08. a lot of bush voters switched over to obama. a very big number. it seems like there might be a bigger pool of potential swing voters. >> i think a couple months ago they felt good they were goi...

Hearing real specificity as to how that job creation is going to look. its interesting that everybody talks about the middle class, but the reality is that, you know, the working class, working families, are the bulk of our population, and theyre also interested in hearing what are the policies that are going to help them move to the middle class. >> has this affected enthusiasm? theres a new survey from latino decisions that is showing 69% of latino voters in colorado saying theyre very enthusi...

The president tends to draw big crowds. he went to a college campus. he really needs the college educated vote, the college student vote to come out in big numbers. you will see him at more campuses in the next few weeks because thats the vote that people are worried about. many people will stay home among that group because they havent found jobs. he needs to turn out that vote of under 30-year-olds. i think you will see him at a lot of campuses. >> that harvard university poll mentioning the f...

This guy ran bain capital sand s a business guy and hes hiding his budget. that ought to tell you something. >> perry bacon is an msnbc contributor and the political editor of thegrio.com. perry, when you see bruce springsteen show up with bth for a rally in ohio while the president is stumping in new hampshire, you know they are pulling out all the stops, arent they, with just 19 days left. >> and springsteen and clinton in one event tells you how important ohio, ohio, ohio. neither one of thes...

>> no, not settled. >> reporter: nor was the issue of libya. >> it took them a long time to say this was a terrorist act by a terrorist group. >> suggestion that any in my team would play politics or mislead when weve lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. >> reporter: michael jones, an obama voter in 08, and now -- >> im not that optimistic. >> weve created 5 million jobs. gone from 800,000 jobs a month being lost. and we are make progress. we saved an auto industry that was on the brink...

About managing the middle east different than that of president bushs? i think theres a lot more ambiguity there. i think the presidents right on economic policy, on energy policy, there is a lot of similarity. >> the question i have, though, is what is romneys second sentence? the first sentence is im going to create, you know, a lot of jobs by fostering small business. and the second sentence is how hes going to do that. and i think that that question about the differences between him and bush...

The numbers for mitt romney in those three states right now. >> well, we like what were seeing in all three of the states. and obviously its all coming down to those three states and then one more if you adhere to the three, two, one strategy. we feel good about our ground game there which is what were focusing in on at the rnc. as far as door-to-door campaign, were blowing the doors off of where we were in 08. weve done a phenomenal job as a team. between team romney and the republican party an...

Interviews with different news organizations, and she said essentially -- well, she didnt say essentially, but did say the buck stops with her, meaning with her about what happened in banghazi. you laugh? >> two levels. first of all, the buck stops with the president, that was harry trumans line, and she lost the nomination. shes not president. >> greta: meaning president obama should be giving that line? >> it is the presidents line. secondly, you have to admire the clintons. bill and hillary c...

Interviews with different news organizations, and she said essentially -- well, she didnt say essentially but did say the buck stops with her meaning with her about what happened in banghazi. you laugh? >> two levels. first of all the buck stops with the president, that was harry trumans line, and she lost the nomination. shes not president. >> greta: meaning president obama should be giving that line? >> it is the presidents line. secondly you have to admire the clintons. bill and hillary clint...

Obamas running a very fine edge here. i think joe can, quote, be joe, whatever that means in the vice-presidential debate. i thought he was obnoxious. i thought he was caustic. i thought he was abrasive, but he can get away with it in a way that obama cant. i think that if theres anything that people liked or believed in back in 08 with obama, it was that he was sort of fair-minded, and so i think that hes got real limits to where he can go without, i think, really hurting himself in terms of th...