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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...

Win the presidency. thats why these two guys are fighting over the state and down the stretch they are going to be in ohio a lot. arthel: let me jump in with specifics here, bob. as you say we already said the president is visiting two state universities there. hes going after the young voters. they put him over-the-top in 08 with a 51% lead over the ka main palin ticket. certainly the president is not taking the ohio voters for granted. this is his 13th visit here this year. will it be a hard s...

>> well, thats right. theyre being courted by both sides. i dont think that they were necessarily ignored before. but everybody had sort of their demographic and republicans never had to worry about losing them. democrats knew that they would never get much more than 40% and still sort of where they are but what they cant do is lose any. so theyre each trying to desperately hold on to what they have. otherwise they cant win. arguab arguably, some experts think that romney needs to get it up to 6...

Theyre not taking this for granted. hes done all this prep. obama was not great in the 08 debates and romney was not great in the 2012 debates, so theres room for both of these guys for improvement and i expect theyre both studying hard to make sure they can do the best they can. i dont think they think michele bachmann and barack obama is similar in skill. >> thank goodness for that. gentlemen, thank you so much. >> thanks. well be back to clear the air. hungry for the best? its eb. want to g...

Country, its creator told buzzfeed friday. >> is this all it got, really? this is what theyve tried to do in 2008? none of this is new. theres a straight line from what were seeing now and what we will see over the next month or so and what we saw in the lalt stages of 2008, what we even saw in the late stagings of the primary phase of 2007 and 08. theres no disconnect there. its a continuous line. but you cannot introduce new rumors about someone who has been in the nations living rooms for fou...

Theres the united states of america. >> soaring rhetoric of only his actions louder than his words. we look at the other weapon the obama campaign arsenal is using that is race. a look at how play tantly this reelection team and surrogate has saturated or national discourse with racially charged attacks. it was the presidents silver bullet in 08 we exposed how in the bag the media is for president they abandoned their role as journalists and let the thrill of vetting this president four years ag...

But you look at where it actually is, and he trails in battleground states by a few points, on average, and in national polls hes tied, essentially. a lot of those polls, republicans have a problem with because they believe they are weighted towards a democratic turn out model for 08 which was a heavy democratic turn out and they believe the governor is still there. democrats even, some of them privately will tell you they are surprised that governor romney for all the mistakes as a candidate he...

America and an asian america. theres the united states of america. >> soaring rhetoric of only his actions louder than his words. we look at the other weapon the obama campaign arsenal is using that is race. a look at how play tantly this reelection team and surrogate has saturated or national discourse with racially charged attacks. it was the presidents silver bullet in 08 we exposed how in the bag the media is for president they abandoned their role as journalists and let the thrill of vettin...

While the same is true for up to 41% of voters who live in ohio. i want to bring in nbc news senior political editor mark murray. mark, president obama won the early vote, well remind everybody back in 08, and one professor at george mason says more than one in three voters is expected to vote early this time around. so how do the campaigns take that into focus? >> well, the campaigns take that into focus, thomas, election day is right now. its not necessarily on november 6th. it is occurring ri...

Decided by one state, ohio, that george w. bush beat over john kerry. so there is a potential for mitt romney to get back in the game. the problem for him is that were approaching the six-week mark, and time is beginning to run out. he has to start making his move. >> theyre going try to reframe the conversation leading into the debates, hopefully to get after the bad weeks that mitt romney racked up and get the message back on the economy. as we look at the economy, there are several swing stat...