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Saying, did you know you just said that out loud? the rest of us heard you say that? >> the problem is, karen, they wouldnt be doing it if they didnt think they were appealing to somebody. i mean, you dont spend a million dollars on advertising unless you think youre going to get some return. >> but remember from the very beginning this has been a base election. president obama needs his base to come out if hes going to win. mitt romney needs his base to come out if hes going to win. and so the ...

Not care how they feel about mitt romney they will get in the car and they are energized. he will not have a problem turning his voters out. it is looking like a base election and i dont think anyone has momentum and i dont anyone is swaying undecided. it is about turning out the voter. for president obama the storm shows people suffering and it will be a tough day to get your supporters to vote. >>shepard: i wondered about that. by day five of a hurricane, or day six everyone picks someone to b...

Voting in ohio and in virginia is bad, because they need every second that they can to try to get out their vote. hes working on a democratic base election. hes trying to win on the basis of maximizing, getting all the toothpaste out of the tube that he possibly can among democrats, where as what romney is trying to do is ride a wave here and get independents and get others, moderates to come to his side and join an already solid and already energized republican basement for the president every ...

Committed to them and figuring out how to get them to vote. thats why i feel good where obama is today. if you look at polls in states like ohio, hes doing very well in the early voting. they have benefited greatly from being the incumbent and not having a primary and being able to put together the operation so in the final days they can get people out to vote while romney was competing in a primary. >> i agree with everything he just said. when you look at the enthusiasm gap between republicans...

Even if obama holds. >> al gore pulled out of iowa and everybody said it was over. he almost got it. there are other paths here. colorado feels as if you can see how romney wins it. iowa is the one they have to figure out how to turn. >> the past for both of these guys, its ununbelievable election. youve been emphasizing a point that is important. youve been talking about enthusiasm. when you have an election that was as close as this one appears to be, you really have to get your base out. and ...

Think about who he was talking about. folks on social security who have worked all their lives, veterans who sacrificed for this country. people who are working hard every day, paying payroll tax, gas taxes, but dont make enough income. and i want to fight for them. >> now, what was interesting to me about that is governor romney had just said his last statement, he brought up the 100%. either the president followed saying that he was going to answer that with the 47% or he planned to use that a...

Earns 49% support to obamas 48% and the undecided are only 3% and by the way, i double checked this, those very same swing states hold 146 electoral votes and obama won them four years ago. so boy, hes behind on his numbers there on the swing states, isnt he? >> look, we know this is going to be a big election. this is really going to come down to turnout. and when we look just in the state of ohio right now, 20% of ohio voters have already voted through the early vote process. two-thirds have g...

One is firing up the base. mitt romney fired up his base during the debate and president obama did not. the other issue is the waiverers who were still undecided or who are persuadable and romney did a better job persuading during the debate than president obama did. i agree with joan. this is not the end of the world. this is not something thats uncorrectable. but it needs to be corrected. >> well, it could start with a good debate by joe biden coming up on thursday night. joan, how important i...

To sort of get the voter, to get your base wound up again. because remember, this is a base election. whichever person, whichever candidate can get his base out to the polls, thats going to be the margin of victory. and with regard to the swing state polls, lets keep something in mind, before that debate last wednesday, the swing state polls were already shrinking. so, i mean, this isnt big news that ohio and michigan and florida and these other states are beginning to shrink. this election has ...

Republican partys politics on this issue? joining us now, steve carknacky, the co-host of msnbcs the cycle and a senior writer at salon.com. thanks for being here. >> happy to be here. >> there were a ton of these gay marriage bans on the ballot in 2004 and the common wisdom was republicans thought it would drive up turnout and help george w. bush get elected by bringing out conservatives who might not like him but who really hated gay people. did that turn out to be the case in 04? >> there is ...