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Last week you allude to hidden swing voters. who are they? >> there was an interesting thing in 2008 where african-americans and whites turned out at almost the same level. if you compare that to 2000 and 2004, it made a significant difference in the outcome of of the election in ohio, in virginia, in north carolina and in indiana and played an important role in states like pennsylvania and wisconsin. so the idea that these voters who are not thought of as swing voters, if they turn out in 12 li...

Past month how many letters have you written and put a stamp on personally and sent out to a friend? >> a goose egg on that, and first of all, i love being on the show because its 6:08 and weve got references to both lincoln and trollop. joe, youve talked a lot about it, and weve talked a lot on this show about the incredible transformations that have happened to the economy. this is a great example of that. you think about not just e-mail and text, but the way the fedex came in and then the uni...

Congressional elections before this presidential election you see that the two parties percentages are not within a narrow 3-point range but within a wide 9-point range. people have been changing their mind in response to issues, in response to the iraq war, in response to the situation of the economy, in response to obamacare and other issues, and have been switching around. so while the polling during this campaign cycle for the last three months has been fairly steady, i dont think we have th...

Simon knows it and, frankly, the guy whos got to bear the responsibility is the guy at the top. this administration has not given people a reason to dream, certainly hasnt given young people a reason for hope, and thats why this poll is a very realistic reflection of the disastrous lack of leadership that has come from washington over the last three-and-a-half years. mitt romney could win the young peoples vote if they play it smart. megyn: you know, simon, it does seem to some extent it relates...

confident dick durbin of illinois and one of romneys possible vp picks senator kelly ayotte from new hampshire. >> and mitt romneys company were pioneers in outsourcing jobs. >> barack obamas record is the worst record since the depression. >> and we will talk about those ads with our cnn political analyst ron brownstein and "time" magazines michael sherer. an incumbent president still in peril, and measuring optimism about the economy has fallen to the lowest level this year, and p...

two straight years, job creation seems to be slowing down. earnings for middle income americans fell some 7% in the past decade. and then there are investments. your i.r.a., your 401(k), your pensions. theyre a second road to prosperity. that is complicated in this volatile market. for those of you looking for a safe harbor by investing in fixed income or parking money in the shelter of a bank, youre getting nothing. even our virtually nonexistent inflation is higher than what youre ea...

100-round ammunition clip to kill and wound as many people as he possibly can, our government believes that we should do nothing. >> are the media inflaming the issue? plus, with the london olympics underway, nbc news pulls out the stops to promote the networks coverage of the games. >> back here in london with tower bridge lit up so beautifully behind us, with less than 24 hours to go now until the opening ceremony -- >> is this promotion in the guise of news? well talk about that a...

spending and thats because trat decisional path to prosperity is still strewn with debris from the last storm. the big one, the recession. your job and the wage you bring home is the single most important way to build wealth. but despite net job growth for two straight years, job creation seems to be slowing down. earnings for middle income americans fell some 7% in the past decade. and then there rinare investmen. that is complicated in this volatile market. for those of you looking f...

Accompanying that statement from the chairman of the council shows, you know, the graph is going downhill. the bar graph is going downhill. there it is. this is a chart that starts in the second quarter of 08 and takes us through the second quarter of this year and you can see at the very end there the chart is stair stepping downhill, well not a good fashion. >> you know the chairman of the council of economic advisors is a professional economist, almost always a, an academic. their job is to g...

Flushed it down the toilet? those are the same policies mitt romney seems into. for those of you keeping track at home, its standard barack obama for president stuff, its what he always says, what he said about john mccain in 08, the bush administration was tanking the economy and what hes been asssaying about mitt romney. but the republicans have come up with a new counterattack. heres how it goes, their own version of president obamas remarks from monday night, and spoiler alert, the rnc versi...