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First up president obama stopped at a pizzeria in florida yesterday to commend the owner in his work encouraging more people to donate blood. when the president shouted out a compliment about the mans biceps, things got interesting. >> look at those guns. if i buy your pizza, will i look like that? >> i dont think anybody would do that to romney. the store owner is a republican though he voted for obama in 08 and plans to do so again in november. now that the president and first lady have been s...

If i buy your pizza, will i look like that? >> i dont think anybody would do that to romney. the store owner is a republican though he voted for obama in 08 and plans to do so again in november. now that the president and first lady have been swept off their feet, remember when michelle obama was hoisted up by a member of the u.s. olympic wrestling team. steve king scored an endorsement from mitt romney on friday. steve king, the iowa republican who thinks president obamas birth announcement c...

Points in 08 and bad economic numbers and gop obstruction impeding progress. so obama arrived on the national scene as an extraordinary politician and now seems a much more ordinary politician and still victory is very much within reach. i think a more ordinary plak politician succeeding in this climate signals progress even more than the success of one who seemed as if he could walk on water. >> i think thats really true and i think thats true also about the idea of the american dream. to me th...

They can take ohio like they did in 08, that their chance of securing the white house for another four years is pretty strong. jenna: so, joe, whats the state of the race right now? what are you noticing? >> well, im noting like youre noticing that the polls are very close. the president does seem to hold an edge here. we had a poll last month that showed it as a completely dead heat. i think romney actually was ahead by two votes in our poll. but the average of the polling does show that the pr...

>> brian: yes. that is an incredibly staggering low number. florida has tried to reach out to military vores and a lot of the blame calls on the pent con. we dont have the voting that we should. and they move three more times than civilians. that is a problem. >> brian: look at the difference. 166,000 requested in 08 and 12upon upon -- 55,000? >> yeah, it is a matter of priority. we have to pound on the desk and said this should be a priority. and instead the administration is suing ohio over

Moment on tralt where, this is a pizza shop owner in the big apple pizza place here in florida. he had what the president described as big guns in terms of his biceps, in terms of a body builder and so excited to see the president and lifted him in the air. no secret service, but normally they would keep him back make sure the president doesnt get tossed around or tossed to the ground. the pizza shop owner says hes a republican and voted for the president in 08 and wants to vote for him again. h...

Success rate is so much higher. >> bob shrum, final thought on this sort of move from persuasion to mobilization that weve seen. >> well, i entirely agree with sasha about the mobilization, and i think this is going to be very much in some ways a base election, but i think we have a false either/or here. the fact of the matter is that youve got to try to do both. weve learned so much more in the last ten years about how to turn out voters. but you also have to go out and persuade people. you hav...

We need to come out of this crisis stronger than when we went in and theres a lot more that we can do. >> listening to you steve, i think you say the worst sin of the president is not that he hasnt got the economy coming back like gangbusters, but that he promised too much. the numbers he was using. ill get it down to 6% in three years. ill get it down to 8% in the first year. is he -- would any other president have been able to do -- bill clinton doesnt think so. be able to take this out of whe...

>> not at all because women are going to make the difference in this election. and i think that in -- lets take a look at 08 when the issue wasnt quite prime time. and we saw in the 2010 elections, and these guys ran on jobs, jobs, jobs. and then actually started attacking reproductive rights, both at the state level, the federal level. so, it has come back into the consciousness of people in this country to say, whoa, this is at risk. then we saw the debate on birth control. people said, oh, no...

So there isnt much to begin with. both campaigns argue when you look at the amount much money thats being spent by outside lots, lots of toxic ads on the air action when they were back to back, they started before labor day, there may not be much of a bounce. but mr. obama and the democrats went second. so if romney has a disadvantage because the democrats went last, another explanation as to why hes being so aggressive through this weekend and will next week at every opportunity do what he can ...