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171, 172 million people that get to vote and youve got different states. youre being realistic. the only thing that i see moving that is the monetary aspect of how much cheaper it would be. but its still the historic right of people get to vote. there are tools for absentee. >> do it by mail. >> but to have the national government, which is what we would contend to come in and changt way we vote, im being realistic, thats not going to happen. >> step back. why do we vote on the first tuesday of ...

Nerd. i dont think you could outsmart him. >> bill: interesting what he knows. interesting you brought this up. new pew study that says 21% of the american population regular gli watches us. fox news. now, 21% is about 65 million people. thats far beyond msnbc has got like 10% and cnn is now down to 14% or 15%. >> why are we bragging now? >> we are bragging because even though its 65 million that regular gli tunes into fox news at some time or another, thats only 21% and the other 79% dont. >> i...

Nerd. i dont think you could outsmart him. >> bill: interesting what he knows. interesting you brought this up. new pew study that says 21% of the american population regular gli watches us. fox news. now, 21% is about 65 million people. thats far beyond msnbc has got like 10% and cnn is now down to 14% or 15%. >> why are we bragging now? >> we are bragging because even though its 65 million that regular gli tunes into fox news at some time or another, thats only 21% and the other 79% dont. >> i...

Nerd. i dont think you could outsmart him. >> bill: interesting what he knows. interesting you brought this up. new pew study that says 21% of the american population regular gli watches us. fox news. now, 21% is about 65 million people. thats far beyond msnbc has got like 10% and cnn is now down to 14% or 15%. >> why are we bragging now? >> we are bragging because even though its 65 million that regular gli tunes into fox news at some time or another, thats only 21% and the other 79% dont. >> i...

Have health insurance. the president cares about the people in america and i care about all the people in america, but i know how to help the people of america. look, were going to win. theres no question in my mind. were going to win. >> no question in his mind. joining me now, nbcs senior political editor mark murray. mark, as we saw earlier, the polls dont show a pretty picture for mitt romney right now. can he somehow turn the underdog narrative into an advantage? >> absolutely. i mean, ther...

2007, u.s. weekly jobless claims, lets look at the big picture, they have stubbornly stayed above 300,000. and they spiked in early 2009 as you see pretty clearly on the chart. economists say weekly claims must consistently fall below 375,000 shown by the yellow line. you see it has been you hadding the yellow line past several months. that would indicate once we get below it were in a strong environment and adding jobs. this new report shows last weeks 359,000 claims dipped below that line. if ...

Because the obama camp believes were ten days out or already there. mark murray joins me from washington. its interesting, president obama described former president clinton as the commander in chief of explaining stuff or something. you get that feel with in closing ad. you and your team point out that so many states already are in the process of early voting and well have even more at end of next week. >> were 40 days from election day, and that ad that president obama is playing, a two-minute...

That is starting next monday -- already started in idaho and wyoming. >> sean: and ohio. >> 30 states will be voting starting monday in some of the most key and important states in the country. and those votes will be counted a lot of them well before the first debate. >> i dont like that. i dont like that early voting. i think absentee is the best way to go. thats early voting, but theres so many things that can happen. if people start voting next week, they havent even seen the first debate. t...

That is starting next monday -- already started in idaho and wyoming. >> sean: and ohio. >> 30 states will be voting starting monday in some of the most key and important states in the country. and those votes will be counted a lot of them well before the first debate. >> i dont like that. i dont like that early voting. i think absentee is the best way to go. thats early voting, but theres so many things that can happen. if people start voting next week, they havent even seen the first debate. t...

Stronger in battleground than national numbers. >> finally voters are tuning in and pay attention. but almost all these polls are margin of error. >> sure. you see the solidifying of position and the tiny sliver of voters starting to put the markers down. half o the voters have already voted. they havent voted, but they can. 25 states already you can vote in some form, in person, early, absentee. the estimate now is 40% of folks are going to vote early. its too bad you cant say im voting earlyin...