Page 517 - 08 News Today

Telemundo last night praising his campaign. >> i have a terrific campaign. my senior campaign people work extraordinarily well together. i work well with them. our campaign is doing well. >> so, no changes in your campaign? >> no, ive got a good team. >> i mean, accept what youre saying he could turn it around in seven weeks, he first has to not be in denial and see he has a problem. >> i agree. >> these are not just gaffes. when your father ran in 08, he didnt have any of this stuff. this guy i...

Rally on one saturday but gets in three hole hours of debate prep, in their eyes, thats tradeoff they will take. there is no question, we are now at 49 days out, getting to the point where one rally every other day is not going to cut t he is going to have to do more. >> remarkable contrast to 08, woe do six, seven events in iowa. how can he do this many? thats not -- a primary and a general election are two very different things. >> he has the energy. >> now i think he has got to put himself ou...

Damaging than barack obamas -- remember that guns and religion comment he made in san francisco in 08. [ male announcer ] what if you had thermal night-vision goggles, like in a special ops mission? youd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep, youd be targeting stocks to trade. well, thats what trade architects heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrades empowering web-based tradin...

Flip-flopper. >> barack obama in early 08. >> elitist. >> no small-town america. here we go. mitt romney, a son of the entitled class of america saying half the country doesnt pay taxes they dont care for themselves, they are effectively wards of the state. that was a problem. an even bigger problem i think was trying to fix it last night. he comes out and he says basically, if you dont get a romney tax cut, youre into the going to be one of my voters. how about those people in america who voted...

Secretary of state matt schultz of pushing a set of rules to check the citizenship status of 3,500 voters in the state. on friday, a state judge put those rules on hold. our next two guests are wired into the concerns of minority voters in both states. joining me is democratic sate senator nina turner and ken spaling. state senator, lets start with you. we have a live picture of president obamas campaign event in cincinnati where the president will be speaking in just the next hour. heres a shot...

Well. i think that the obama side, too, is -- is warily eyeing these new polls. they expect things to level out again, too. theyre not claiming victory just as much as the romney side is not throwing in the towel. >> another swing state i want to keep with you on this is colorado. one the president won in 08. right now we have a poll shows the president leads in that state by just one point. in your latest article you write about how the president is reaching out to colorados middle-class voters...

Else? okay. you think about that (laughter) >> stop me, stop me. >> charlie graasperino, and gary, what do you think about that? you think about the republican side, six months to keep it going so the government doesnt shut down. in so doing that, you increase spending. >> i dont blame the freshmen, i blame the leadership, it comes from the top down and neil, theres no grape fruits in washington d.c. i go back to one simple number. in 08, 2.8 trillion federal spending, 3.7 trillion next year, th...

Ahead. what do you anticipate for the next phase of this contest? >> first of all one of the qualifications to be president that are rarely part of presidential campaigns, except when there are significant foreign policy events, such as 9/11 or the vietnam war, is foreign policy. and i think whats happened in the last 48 hours, and what might get worse in the middle east is going to raise the importance of foreign policy experience. barack obama had none when he ran in 08 and mccain had an advan...

Men and women will respond to that call. you probably remember this ad during the 08 democratic primaries. it put this choice in fairly stark terms. >> its 3:00 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. but theres a phone in the white house and its ringing. somethings happening in the world. your vote will decide who answers that call, whether its someone who already knows the worlds leaders, knows the military, someone tested and ready to lead in a dangerous world. its 3:00 a.m. and your chil...

Sophisticated consumers of state polling and want to know our party ids. explain which ones were more democratic in 08 and which ones less democratic. >> pretty much spot on. were seeing right now in each state within a point or two mirroring what the turnout was by party in each state in 2008. its something we look at very closely for indication of enthusiasm, that gap really evaporated. so were seeing now an electorate that looks more like 08 than 04. obviously thats why obama, these numbers a...