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Gotten negative and the president spent millions of dollars taking out negative ads, the polls are a statistical dead heat. its not working. this is right in the dead of august. this is rare. >> dana: i think if you were to go back. we pulled the tape of our show in june, we sort of all predicted this. right? obama had a terrible june. he had a pretty good july. both of them have had a whatever august. now its in a dead heat. thats what the media wants, right? everybody is going to want a dead h...

To say look, akin, you need to get out of the race and i am for an exception for rape and danger to the life of the mother and he will start to look, not that he is, he will start to look a little more moderate on the abortion position which would be wonderful for independent women. the problem is this is really a base election. he needs to turn out the base. so at some point, evangelical christians are going to go hey, wait a minute, all right, enough of the piling on from romney, mcconnell, al...

The romney campaign feels that way in reverse. ohio is this challenge for them that frankly they never expected but its why you see this targeting on welfare. this is all targeting white working class voters in ohio are not flocking to romney in the way they thought they would. >> youve been doing a lot of analysis of that as well. >> yes. what it seems to me is becoming clear in this campaign is that both sides, the obama camp and the romney camp, are treating this as a base election, not a bas...

Them obama is slightly ahead. so he is very close to taking this thing. he only needs if he can keep, ohio, in miss column it would be -- there is pretty much no way romney can get there. i know karl has some sets of states that would make up for ohio but ohio now ohio and i think virginia become very critical. >> chris: bill there is a lot of talk and you heard it especially this week among pollsters when you drill down into the numbers less than 5%, some people say 3% of voters who are truly u...

Them obama is slightly ahead. so he is very close to taking this thing. he only needs if he can keep, ohio, in miss column it would be -- there is pretty much no way romney can get there. i know karl has some sets of states that would make up for ohio but ohio now ohio and i think virginia become very critical. >> chris: bill there is a lot of talk and you heard it especially this week among pollsters when you drill down into the numbers less than 5%, some people say 3% of voters who are truly u...

Reign them in, dont you. >> what he said was absurd and despicable. if you are the ceo. is what he doing affective and i think it is affective. it is a base election. you get out the base and get your people to the polls. africa-american are a part of the democratic base . i didnt see those people booing him. >> they had a big loud boo. >> there was a skirmish reaction. >> they were booing wall street. >> dagen? >> that was a loud boo from governor doug wilder. democratic and former of the state...

Syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. steve, you heard the president there. no one would say that we have tried to divide the country. we always tried to bring the country together. thoughts? >> a lot of people said exactly that. it manifests the truth that the president tried to defy the country. that is the basis of his re-election campaign trying to cobble together the democratic special intest groups that made up the democratic party for better part of the last three decades. energize t...

That we always wanted to have. i think thats a bunch of nonsense. and on the contrary, i actually think the choice of ryan is an indication that this really is a turn out the base election where youre trying to put out as much negativity as possible, suppress the vote, and further in the next weeks, theres going to be a race to define the framing -- to define the framing of this election and the obama campaign is going to want to make it about the ryan budget and about paul ryan. and the romney ...

Attacks from some of the mainstream media already. a live look here at lakewood, colorado, where the congressman is rallying supporters. mr. ryan so far appearing to be unfazed by the medias first round of political assaults against him. here is just a sampling of those. >> what does he say when you whisper to him when he coming out with his budget that basically gives a great break to the richest people in the country and really screws the people that desperately need medicare and program like ...

Margin of error now for the party and he can try to focus on the center. but ryan inflames the center and the left rather so much, that it is going to be very difficult. >> actually right. i think for republicans -- for republicans i think its great. look at the guy, just look at him. >> not just a base election. >> theyre going to try to demonize him and look at the guy, good look demonize -- good luck demonizing a guy that comes from a district that voted for bill clinton, barack obama, if im ...