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Its a huge problem dwroefr come. its not easy to beat an incumbent president, and mitt romney is no ronald reagan or bill clinton. >> when you have an incumbent president with 8% unemployment, its very difficult to win. romney has proven to be the worst candidate weve seen in perhaps 30, 40 years. i go back to steves memory now when we get into 50, 60, 70 years. i agree with whats said including your points about mccain. if romney ran in 08 as he is now, obviously he did run in 08 and it didnt w...

>> they havent done that yet which is surprising. when they went to the domestic focus on the vice president, they needed to sort of bring somebody in. that is what joe biden did for obama in 08. that was the counter to john mccain. and they havent done that. and i -- its going to be difficult for them to do that in the next couple weeks. and going into that last debate where theyre going to be talking about this stuff, this is going be an issue, theyre going to need to frame that up before they...

Business and those people that make the decisions those liberals who want to tell you how to live and where to send your children to school. >> you saw it with president obama where the first african-american president who has credentials, very much like every other president, ivy league education, all of that sort of thing, suddenly gets framed in this way that his intellectual accomplishments are inappropriate and instead what we saw was a kind of populism that emerged from the mccain and pali...

You know, i dont think either candidate, frankly, probably had a particularly good answer for that. and i think thats sort of why were seeing neither one of them really engaging hard on whats going to happen next in the war. >> the president is talking about the new tower on the new york skyline. that tower is not done. talking about savings from ending the war in afghanistan. that war doesnt end until the end of 2014. anybody running against somebody whos taking those positions provided they ha...

I mean that theyre skewing, that theyre showing higher turnout, those polls are assuming a higher democratic turnout now than in 08 when we know it was huge? >> yes, that is correct. that is part of the story and only part of the story. martha: okay. >> the obama lead is a real one. it is not a lead that would disappear if the polls were weighted in a slightly different direction. but that being said, in the state of ohio, for example, where they have a plus 8 democratic skew, in 2004 it, was a ...

Medicare, medicare, medicare. and when ryan was chosen, the agent for the destruction of medicare was chosen as the vice presidential candidate, well, it clarified the debate for many people in the races that we are active in. >> whatever it says about american politics, the fact is that the balance of power in congress and the house of representatives has been shifting pretty wildly in these past few elections. in 06 and 08, the democrats swung 52 seats in their direction. they seized both cont...

>> well, i would say, nbcs first read, your kind of early morning primer, put together by nbc politically, i thought was right. a two-minute ad that president obama is running in virtually every swing state and that -- certainly every swing state thats voting early and that ads the kind of ad you run in the last week of the campaign. why now? the obama campaign understands everybody voting on november 6th is antiquated. lots of people vote early including earl states. theyre saying we need to ge...

In the campaign, in alphabetical order. medicare, medicare, medicare. and when ryan was chosen, the agent for the destruction of medicare was chosen as the vice presidential candidate, well, it clarified the debate for many people in the races that we are active in. >> whatever it says about american politics, the fact is that the balance of power in congress and the house of representatives has been shifting pretty wildly in these past few elections. in 06 and 08, the democrats swung 52 seats i...

Order. medicare, medicare, medicare. and when ryan was chosen, the agent for the destruction of medicare was chosen as the vice presidential candidate, well, it clarified the debate for many people in the races that we are active in. >> whatever it says about american politics, the fact is that the balance of power in congress and the house of representatives has been shifting pretty wildly in these past few elections. in 06 and 08, the democrats swung 52 seats in their direction. they seized bo...

In 2007 and 08 they are doing here. could you imagine "60 minutes, they ought to be embarrassed. mr. president, you promised to cut the deficit in half in your first term, $6 trillion in debt, you said bush was unpatriotic and irresponsible for four years. explain. they dont ask fundamentals. fewer americans are working in spite of your caveats, mr. president. explain. explain all of the -- never does he get asked simple questions. >> well, the media complicit here and the collusion, which is wh...